Look Ahead Don't look back, you'll miss the road ahead. (Chris Suitt, pastor) As a mountain-biker, Suitt learned that “where your eyes go, so goes your front wheel. The bike will go where you're looking . . . So keep your eyes on the trail if you want to enjoy the...
Choices Our parents bring us into the world, but in the end, we are responsible for what we become. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer) We inherit a lot from our parents, of course: physical attributes and personality characteristics, no doubt. But we can’t...
Pettiness Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes. (George Will, columnist) Pastor Chuck Swindoll comments, “Petty people are worse than stubborn; they are negative and rigidly inflexible.” We quickly want to avoid people who are small-minded,...
Relationships The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. (Anthony Robbins, life coach) What brings the most joy and pleasure to your life? Your new car? Your well-decorated home? Your job and career? These are all good, of course, and they are very...
Learning Some [people] not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid. (Dale Turner, author) He also said, “The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. . . Those who believe they have ‘arrived’ believe they have nowhere to go.” As we...
Tomorrow The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President) Most people have high hopes for tomorrow. Little Orphan Annie sang, “The sun'll come out... Tomorrow so ya gotta hang on 'til tomorrow......
Never Give Up. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. (Babe Ruth, early baseball star) No doubt, Ruth played with a lot of good athletes, some of whom made it big in sports and others who faded rather quickly. His statement highlights one of the important...
Words I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. (Benjamin Franklin) The 19th century pastor and writer C. H. Spurgeon also wrote, “If there were no gratified hearers of ill reports, there would be an end of the trade of spreading them.”...
Diversity Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways and yours. (Jennifer Chen, freelance writer) Most of us like to be around people like us—similar habits, dress, tastes, etc. We sometimes find it difficult to spend time with...
Teamwork Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. (Casey Stengel, late professional baseball manager) Stengel was noted for his malapropisms like “All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.” But his...
Pressing On I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday. (Quoted by Dan O’Deens, cross-cultural worker) We sometimes want to give up because we haven’t seemed to make much progress. We’re so short of our goal that we think we might just as well give up...
Opportunity No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century essayist)) In fact, F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Our lives are defined by opportunities—even the ones we miss.” Sometimes we’re frozen in waiting for opportunity to...