“If you raise your standards but don’t really believe you can meet them, you’ve already sabotaged yourself. You won’t even try; you’ll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that’s within you… Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what’s possible and impossible and what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.”    
    - Anthony Robbins 

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." 
- Charles Dickens

Merry Christmas! See you next week!

f I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
  - Og Mandino

"The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." - Billy Graham

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

"We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,

to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want."

- Joe Vitale

"Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?" 
- Andy Stanley

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

- William Shakespeare

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
   - Charles Dickens

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not;

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not;

unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not;

the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.
- Charles Stanley

"There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
- Martha Washington

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody." - Dwight L. Moody

"To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often."
- Winston Churchill

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You do not have to be a pastor to a minister.
All can be a minister!

"One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice."
- Steve Jobs

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
- Benjamin Mays

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain 

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter F. Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter F. Drucker

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." - Mark Twain

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." - Aristotle

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance,
everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
- Dereke Bruce

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

- Billy Graham

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi 

"It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things." - Billy Sunday

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."
    - Edwin Markham

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"What we think, we become. 
All that we are arises with our thoughts. 
With our thoughts, we make the world."
- The Buddha 

"Security is mostly a superstition. 
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. 
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. 
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
- Helen Keller  

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
    - Judy Garland

"Success is not the key to happiness. 
Happiness is the key to success. 
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
- Albert Schweitzer

"I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou

"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail."
   - Og Mandino

"You do not have to be a pastor to be a minister" - Rick Warren

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. - Charles M. Schulz

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed....

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed 
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. 
So throw off the bowlines. 
Sail away from the safe harbor. 
Catch the trade winds in your sails. 
Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
   - Dale Carnegie

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.” 
- Dwight L. Moody

Today is the first day of the rest of your life!

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.
 - Osho

“We say to our children, 'Act like grown-ups,' but Jesus said to the grown-ups, 'Be like children.'
- Billy Graham

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
  - Robert Kennedy

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice."
- Indian Proverb

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can conquer almost any fear

if you will only make up your mind to do so.

For remember, fear doesn't exist

anywhere except in the mind."

- Dale Carnegie

"The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up."
- Mark Twain

"We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about."
- Dale Carnegie

"Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?"
- Max Lucado

"God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference."
- Reinhold Niebuhr 

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." 
- Helen Keller

"As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"More men (&Women) fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."
- Billy Sunday

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."
- Theodore H. White

"Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." 
- Thomas Jefferson

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations." - George Bernard Shaw

What we think, we become.

"What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." 
- The Buddha

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." 
- Lao Tzu

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." 
  - C. S. Lewis

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.” 
- Dwight L. Moody

Everything is a miracle!

There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle.

- Albert Einstein

When you take responsibility, blame is eliminated and you are free to grow.

“When a person takes responsibility for their life and the results they are obtaining, they will cease to blame others as the cause of their results. Since you cannot change other people, blame is inappropriate. Blaming others causes a person to remain bound in a prison of their own making. When you take responsibility, blame is eliminated and you are free to grow.”
- Val Van De Wall

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- George Herbert

"The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up."
- Mark Twain

You have enemies? Good.

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something,sometime in your life."
   - Winston Churchill

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
- Vince Lombardi

"Where there's a will, there's a way."
- old English proverb

“If I take care of my character; my reputation will take care of itself.”
 - Dwight L. Moody

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- John Wooden

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over."

- Billy Sunday

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."

- Theodore H. White

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi

"Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, 
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy 

Memorial Day is a time to honor those who are serving and have served in the military. It is also a day to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom in giving their lives. When we celebrate Memorial Day, it doesn't mean we are agreeing with our governments decisions and wars, but that we are taking time to recognize those who are willing to protect us.

"They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation."
- Henry Beecher

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
- Babe Ruth

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter F. Drucker

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?"
- Henry David Thoreau

“The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.” 
- Dwight L. Moody

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." - Mark Twain

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. 
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Seize the day!

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
- Raymond Lindquist

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation"

  - Dale Carnegie

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way...

"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way." 
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations....

If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

What we think, we become

"What we think, we become. 
All that we are arises with our thoughts. 
With our thoughts, we make the world."
- The Buddha

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
- Zig Ziglar
.... Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. How is yours today?

JeffBallMaine: I'm a great believer in luck...

JeffBallMaine: I'm a great believer in luck...: "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

I'm a great believer in luck...

"I'm a great believer in luck
and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

“A person is what they think about all day long.”

“A person is what they think about all day long.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around."

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training,grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset."  - Tom Hopkins

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill

Do the thing you fear!

"Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." 
- Vince Lombardi

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections." 
- Anonymous

What we think, we become

"What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world." 
- The Buddha