The only certain means of success is to render more & better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. (Og Mandino, late American author) Are you looking for the secrets to success? Self-help books and expensive seminars may help some...
Joy and cynicism. Both are contagious. Everyone infects the world with one or the other. (Scott Sauls, author) There’s a good reason to stay away from someone who has a contagious illness. Caution in this regard is important, of course. But Sauls suggests that we...
What we are today is more important than what we plan to do tomorrow. (Jesse Deloe, writer, editor) Our success in business, education, or in any other endeavor may very well depend on our advanced planning. We need to know where we want to be and how to get there....
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. (Franklin P. Jones, author) That may be a tongue-in-cheek statement, but we really can’t overemphasize the importance of our verbal expressions. With our words we can uplift someone with encouragement or...
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. (Deepak Chopra, author and public speaker) Chopra continues, “In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” From choosing what to wear or...
Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else’s fairytale. (Wale Ayeni, investment advisor) When you’ve lost an investment or had a difficult day on the job or at school, do you sometimes think you don’t have it very...
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. (Jon Bon Jovi, singer, songwriter) Perhaps you feel as if you have experienced more failures than successes. You’re discouraged to the point where you don’t even want to try anything again. Bon Jovi’s advice is good;...
Focus on changing yourself, not on changing the world. In the end you’ll do both. (Kary Oberbrunner, author and motivational coach) We don’t have to look far to see things that need to be changed. Poverty, crime, political unrest, world-wide turmoil—the list is...
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. (Will Rogers, 20th century American humorist) “Live and learn,” we’ve been told. And haven’t we all learned a lot from living? While we like to think we are making good decisions, we often...
Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. (Booker T. Washington, 19th-20th century American educator) When you know something of the struggles that Washington had to overcome to become an admired teacher and an advisor to...
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united by error. (Adrian Rogers, church leader) Much has been said about the importance of unity. So much more progress can be made when we work together in community. However, as Rogers points out, there are times when...
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. (Joseph Joubert, 18th-19th century French essayist) People who are stubborn about their opinions and never seem willing to consider other options are sometimes described as...