Failure Failure is acceptable but failing to try is not. (R. Keith Mobley, business leader and author) Theodore Roosevelt put it another way: “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Having failed to score the winning basket or doing...
Friends The best times in life are made a thousand times better when shared with a dear friend. (Lucy Fawley, churchgoer.) Have you admired a beautiful mountain scene or an exciting concert, wishing you could share it with a friend? Of course, you can share a photo or...
Weariness There is nothing wrong or unnatural with feeling weary . . . (Source unknown) The thought continues: “. . . but there is everything wrong with abandoning ship in the midst of the fight.” Is fatigue a sufficient reason for quitting? We do get tired when we...
Doing Nothing If you stop and do nothing until you can do everything, you will remain useless. (Charles Spurgeon, 19th century English preacher) It’s a mistaken idea to that that you shouldn’t venture to help if you can’t completely solve the problem or resolve the...
Worry No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. (Roy T. Bennett, author) It’s obvious, isn’t it? Yet, we often recall one experience or the other: sorrowing over past mistakes or fretting about tomorrow. Some...
Direction Coddiwomple: to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination. (English slang) That’s a word that you’ve probably never heard. But it does seem to fit with the definition, doesn’t it? It doesn’t make much sense to start on a journey without...
Legacy If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? (Randy Pausch, late educator) Your legacy is much more than the material things you include in your will. Even the largest of inheritances will not guarantee the success of your heirs. But what...
Focus Where your focus goes, your energy flows. (Tony Robbins, author and coach) A lot of us try to multitask, but few seem to be able to do more than one thing at a time. Robbins also says, “Whatever we focus on expands and intensifies.” It isn’t just that you favor...
Team Play If being a team player requires doing what is wrong, you're on the wrong team. (Source unknown) We don’t know who said this originally, but it is certainly a suggestion that ought to be understood by every reasonable person. Yet the thought that winning is...
Today Today is more than a square on a calendar. It’s an adventure . . . a quest for character that may determine your destiny. (Charles Swindoll, pastor and author) Calendars are part of normal life for just about everybody. Whether it’s hanging on the wall by your...
Common Sense Without the common sense that there is common truth, there won’t be common justice. (Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship) Many people are asking, “Whatever happened to common sense today?” Whether it’s in politics, education, or society in...
Forgiving To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. (Lewis B. Smedes, late Reformed theologian) You have probably discovered the reality of Smedes’ observation. You remember that relieved feeling that came over you when you finally...