Today’s Quote

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.  – Groucho Marx

16 Motivational Quotes To Help You Deal With Failure

1. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

2. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. – Bill Cosby

3. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

5. You try. You fail. You try. You fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying. – Madame Leota (Haunted Mansion)

6. “A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” – Elmer G. Letterman

7. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius

17 Greatly Inspiring Joel Osteen Quotes

1. “God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.” – Joel Osteen

2. “If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.” – Joel Osteen

3. “Start believing today that things are going to change for the better. Your best days are still out in front of you.” – Joel Osteen

4. “See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.” – Joel Osteen

5. “The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.” – Joel Osteen

6. “You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life.” – Joel Osteen

7. “Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can’t stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.” – Joel Osteen

Today’s Quote

Nothing in life has happened to you. It’s happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.– Joel Osteen

6 Biblical Principles For Success

Everyone desires to successful,although success may mean different things to each of us. So if you want success in your life, here are some bible based principles that can help us achieve success. This is a post I had written and shared before here on my blog in September 2013:

1. Walking in truth:
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth” III John 1.
“If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:31-32
“And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee…” Deuteronomy 28:1-2.(KJV)
“Who then are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose. They will spend their days in prosperity..” Psalms 25:12-13

2. Faithfulness:
“His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord” Matthew 25:21 (KJV)
“Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right” Psalms 106:3 “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him….” II Chronicles 16:9 “a faithful man shall abound with blessings.” Proverbs 28:20

3. Diligence:
“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:20-23 (KJV)
“…He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” Hebrews 11:6
“The hand of the diligent maketh rich.” Proverbs 10:4 (KJV)

Repost: 35 Powerful Quotes On Success

1- Life is a combination of lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want. –Brian Tracy

2- If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves –Thomas Edison

3- Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense –Buddha

4- You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself –Jim Rohn

5- Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses –George Washington Carver

6- All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. –Wayne Dyer

7- The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. –Lou Holtz

8- Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose. –Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D

9- The indispensible first step to getting the things you want out of this life is this: decide what you want. –Ben Stein

10- The greater danger of most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it –Michelangelo

11- If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise –Robert Fritz

12- You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

13- Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can

14- You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You weren’t an assembly – line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman. –Max Lucado

15- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.—Henry Ford

16- The phrase I can’t is the most powerful force of negation in the human psyche –Paul R. Scheele

17- You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That’s what makes you a winner. –Venus Williams

18- Every negative event contains in it the seed of an equal or greater opportunity. –Napoleon Hill

19- When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade. –W. Clement Stone

20- If you want to be happy set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. –Andrew Carnegie

21- If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals – Lou Holtz

22- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. –Mark Twain

23- Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone –Robert Allen

40 Inspirational Quotes on Gratitude

Despite the many challenges you are facing, you still have so many reasons to be grateful. Here are 40 inspirational quotes to remind you of the importance of gratitude.

1. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving ” William Arthur Ward
2. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” K. Chesterton
3. “‘Enough’ is a feast. Buddhist proverb
4. “If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” Robert Quillen
5. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault
6. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy
7. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Charles Dickens
8. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Eckhart Tolle
9. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” Frank A. Clark
10. “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”Gerald Good

Today’s Quote

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. – William A. Ward.

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“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown