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Monday, April 22, 2024

Communication Quotes

Quotes About Communication 




  • A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
  • Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. --Emma Thompson
  • Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. --Jim Rohn
  • Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. --Frank Moore Colby
  • Everyone Communicates Few Connect
  • Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.  Jack Welch
  • I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million. --Graham Nash
  • 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
  • People are entitled to their opinions and should be free to do so as long as they articulate their feelings with respect for others. But when people decide to share their opinions in a way that is meant to hurt another person's feelings, that is when they become haters.
  • Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more. --Pat Summitt
  • Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.  Thomas Sowell
  • The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. --J. B. Priestley
  • The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. --Peter Drucker
  • The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. --George Bernard Shaw
  • The transfer of information in any form between people. 
  • Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. --CULLEN HIGHTOWER
  • Saying nothing sometimes says the most. --EMILY DICKINSON









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Communicators Live What They Communicate | MWM
Communicators Live What They Communicate = Great communicators live what they communicate. Words matter, but actions matter more. When what you say aligns with what you do, your words gain power and credibility. When they don’t, your message loses impact — and your integrity comes into question.



The Most Valuable Skill | MWM
Improve Your Communication For Next-Level Results = Communication is one of the best skill sets that you can develop as an individual. It will help you grow in your relationships, improve your teams, and take your organization to the next level. Work to improve in this area and see the amazing results!



Are You Instructing, Directing, or Connecting? | MWM
Connect When You Communicate = Communication is about connecting. A speaker’s responsibility is to connect their message with the people listening. You are communicating for the benefit of others. A great communicator doesn’t listen to respond, but listens to connect.  Communication will make others better when we connect to communicate rather than communicate to direct. 



Your Message Moves Farther When You Show AND Tell - THE LAW OF VISUAL EXPRESSION 
People Do What People See = Show and tell is better than tell. A picture is worth a thousand words, but if you show a picture and communicate with words at the same time, it is life-changing. People do what people see. When your audience hears and sees your message, it doubles the strength of what you communicate.


Communication That Connects Shows Up in Action | MWM
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The One Skill You Need To Have = Everyone communicates, but few connect. If you can have one skill to determine your success in life, the one skill you would want to develop and build up your life, it would be communication. Almost everything depends on your ability to not only communicate, but to communicate well.
Everyone communicates, but few connect. If you can have one skill to make you successful in life, the skill that you want to develop and build up in life is communication. Every day, we have to communicate, and almost everything depends on our ability to communicate and to communicate well. Everyone communicates, but few connect. When you communicate, say words that help you connect with others.
It's All About Others = "Get over yourself." It's as simple as that. Make it about others by adding value to them, not you.






Actions speak louder than words—it’s true. Sometimes, you are speaking your loudest when your mouth is completely shut. It’s all in your attitude. What is your attitude saying about you? Are you communicating care and value to others, or are you simply raining on their parade?





Communicate Like A Leader: Live with Roddy Galbraith
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In the third of four stops on our Maxwell Leadership City Tour, Mark Cole and world-renown speaker and communication expert, Roddy Galbraith, talk about how to communicate like a great leader. Everyone has something to say, but not everyone knows how to communicate it.
Key takeaways:
- The better we get at communicating, the better we get at life
- Everyone has something to say
- Much of communication is about listening



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You're Not Talking, But You're Still Communicating = Actions speak louder than words—it’s true. Sometimes, you are speaking your loudest when your mouth is completely shut. It’s all in your attitude. What is your attitude saying about you? Are you communicating care and value to others, or are you simply raining on their parade?



How Great Coaches Communicate
In this episode, John Maxwell teaches us how great coaches communicate! Whether you coach in sports, in business, or even in your family, this episode will give you a playbook for motivating your team to reach their next level of performance. After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss practical ways you can apply this to your life and leadership. 
Key Takeaways:
- “It’s not what you tell your players that counts. It’s what they hear.” –Red Auerbach 
- Information = giving out
- Communication = getting through


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Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one. 
Ephesians 4:29 (MSG) Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift.
Ephesians 4:29 ?No rotten word must proceed? from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear, 
Ephesians 4:29 ESV Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
James 1:19 ESV Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Proverbs 12:18 ESV There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 15:1 (MSG) A gentle response defuses anger, but a sharp tongue kindles a temper-fire.
Proverbs 15:2 ESV The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Proverbs 16:24 (MSG) Gracious speech is like clover honey— good taste to the soul, quick energy for the body.
Proverbs 18:13 (MSG) Answering before listening is both stupid and rude.
Proverbs 18:2 ESV A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 18:21 (MSG) Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.
Psalm 141:3 ESV Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Psalm 19:2 Day after day they pour out speech; night after night they communicate knowledge.
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Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Wisdom Quotes

Quotes About Wisdom and Being Wise


  • 5 things you can't recover in life; 1) A stone after its thrown. 2) A word after it's said. 3) An occasion after it's missed. 4) Time after it's gone. 5) Trust after its lost.
  • A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.
  • A word to the wise is superfluous, and a hundred words to the unwise are futile.
  • Each pain makes you more strong, each betrayal more intelligent, every disappointment more skillful & each experience wiser.
  • Experience is a difficult teacher; She gives the test first and the lesson afterward!
  • Experience is a wonderful thing... It enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
  • 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.
  • He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.  --Tryon Edwards
  • I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me the brawn and brain to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome.
  • In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. --LUCILLE BALL
  • It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.  Laurence J. Peter, 1919-1990), Canadian poet.
  • Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892); English poet.
  • Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.
  • Lord, the resurrection of Your Son has given us new life and renewed hope. Help us to live as new people in pursuit of the Christian ideal. Grant us wisdom to know what we must do, the will to want to do it, the courage to undertake it, the perseverance to continue to do it, and the strength to complete it.
  • Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey
  • Respect old people: they graduated high school without Google or Wikipedia!
  • Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804); German philosopher.
  • Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. --FRANCIS BACON
  • Strive for excellence, not perfection. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. --ALDOUS HUXLEY
  • The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening!
  • The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.  — Bertrand Russell
  • The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • The path to wisdom is paved with humility. --TIM FARGO
  • The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
  • Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. --ROBERT F. KENNEDY
  • We must become the change we want to see.
  • Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran
  • Wisdom is a tree of life to those who eat her fruit. Proverbs 3:18
  • Wisdom is knowing what to do: Skill is knowing how to do it; Virtue is doing it.
  • Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions. Author Unknown
  • Wisdom: knowing when to speak your mind, and when to mind your speech.
  • Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
  • Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions. --DEMOCRITUS
  • Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it. --Thomas Paine
  • Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. --Herbert Hoover




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Today’s Work is Tomorrow’s Success | MWM
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Success Is A Journey = Graduation signifies that you have accomplished something, but you don’t become successful the day you graduate. You became successful the day you decided to go to school, take the course, pursue the goal. Success is a continual journey that shows up at graduation. Success is not the same as recognition of success. When we graduate we are being recognized for what we did right, yesterday.

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Proverbs 1:2, 7, 20 NLT - 2 Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them understand the insights of the wise. ... 7 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. ... 20 Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square.
Proverbs 2:2, 6, 10, 12, 16 NLT - 2 Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. ... 6 For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. ... 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy. ... 12 Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted. ... 16 Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
Proverbs 3:7, 13-15, 18-19 NLT - 7 Don't be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil. ... 13 Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. 14 For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold. 15 Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. ... 18 Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace her; happy are those who hold her tightly. 19 By wisdom the LORD founded the earth; by understanding he created the heavens.
Proverbs 4:5-8 NLT - 5 Get wisdom; develop good judgment. Don't forget my words or turn away from them. 6 Don't turn your back on wisdom, for she will protect you. Love her, and she will guard you. 7 Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good judgment. 8 If you prize wisdom, she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will honor you.
Proverbs 5:1 NLT - 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel.
Proverbs 7:4 NLT - 4 Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family.
Proverbs 8:1, 11-12 NLT - 1 Listen as Wisdom calls out! Hear as understanding raises her voice! ... 11 For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with it. 12 "I, Wisdom, live together with good judgment. I know where to discover knowledge and discernment.
Proverbs 9:1, 10-12 NLT - 1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved its seven columns. ... 10 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment. 11 Wisdom will multiply your days and add years to your life. 12 If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit. If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.
Proverbs 11:2 NLT - 2 Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 14:6, 33 NLT - 6 A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding. ... 33 Wisdom is enshrined in an understanding heart; wisdom is not found among fools.
Proverbs 15:33 NLT - 33 Fear of the LORD teaches wisdom; humility precedes honor.
Proverbs 16:10, 16 NLT - 10 The king speaks with divine wisdom; he must never judge unfairly. ... 16 How much better to get wisdom than gold, and good judgment than silver!
Proverbs 17:24 NLT - 24 Sensible people keep their eyes glued on wisdom, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 18:4 NLT - 4 Wise words are like deep waters; wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.
Proverbs 19:8 NLT - 8 To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.
Proverbs 21:30 NLT - 30 No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the LORD.
Proverbs 23:23 NLT - 23 Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.
Proverbs 24:3, 7, 14 NLT - 3 A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense. ... 7 Wisdom is too lofty for fools. Among leaders at the city gate, they have nothing to say. ... 14 In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.
Proverbs 28:26 NLT - 26 Those who trust their own insight are foolish, but anyone who walks in wisdom is safe.
Proverbs 29:3, 15 NLT - 3 The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but if he hangs around with prostitutes, his wealth is wasted. ... 15 To discipline a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.
Proverbs 30:3 NLT - 3 I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 Wisdom and money can get you almost anything, but only wisdom can save your life.
James 3:13 - Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
James 3:17 ESV But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
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Monday, April 01, 2024

Fool Quotes

Quotes About Fool 

  • A fool judges people by the presents they give him.  Chinese Proverb 
  • A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. - Benjamin Franklin
  • A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. --Bruce Lee
  • A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. --Lord Acton
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. --Benjamin Franklin
  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. --Henry David Thoreau
  • Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein (1879-1955); physicist and mathematician.
  • Enjoy the little you have while the fool is hunting more. Old Spanish proverb
  • Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. Harry Anderson
  • I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.  
  • Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides, 484 - 406 BC
  • The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman
  • The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. --William Blake
  • The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton
  • The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. --HERMANN HESSE
  • The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Lillian Hellman 
  • We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! –Jeremy Taylor
  • Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. –Charles Spurgeon
  • You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. - Talmud
  • You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "My, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"  Dave Barry 
  • Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself. --Teller




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Proverbs 18:2 ESV A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 29:9 (NIV) If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
Proverbs 17:21 (NIV) To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.
Job 5:2 (NIV) Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Ecclesiastes 2:16 (NIV) For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!
2 Corinthians 11:16 (NIV) I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.
Proverbs 10:18 (NIV) Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:10 (NIV) Whoever winks maliciously causes grief, and a chattering fool comes to ruin.
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,
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Monday, January 29, 2024

Honesty Quotes

Quotes About Honesty 

  • O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! --WALTER SCOTT
  • An honest man's word is as good as his bond. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Follow your honest convictions and be strong. William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Honesty is the best image. Tom Wilson (1931), US cartoonist
  • It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit, Noel Coward
  • The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke
  • The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.  Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
  • Honesty is to speak that which is thought and to do that which is spoken. There are no contradictions or discrepancies in thoughts, words or actions. unknown
  • It feels noble to forgive others their awful mistakes, but we are filled with guilt and shame when we realize they've caught us in a mistake. To take the focus off what we've done, sometimes we try to find something wrong with them. It isn't easy to claim our own mistakes...but it can be very freeing. We can embrace the experience of being found out and see it as a gift to help keep us honest. It is one of those gifts that is so well-wrapped, we have difficulty recognizing it! unknown
  • The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. Andy Williams
  • There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.  John Stott 
  • Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. Just cracker jack clean living. Just honest to goodness, bone - deep, non-hypocritical integrity. Charles Swindoll
  • In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. Clare Booth Luce
  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
  • The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
  • A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. C.S. Lewis
  • Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth. A.W. Pink
  • Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) (Writer and publisher)
  • Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. Ruth McKenney
  • To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) French Novelist
  • Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. Madeleine L'Engle (1918- ); US writer.
  • No legacy is so rich as honesty. --William Shakespeare
  • If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain
  • I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. --GEORGE WASHINGTON
  • You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. --Abraham Lincoln
  • No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. --Abraham Lincoln
  • No legacy is so rich as honesty. --William Shakespeare





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Honesty Moves You Forward | MWM
Honesty moves you forward = Being honest with yourself and with others saves so much time and much energy. When you're honest you can spend more time moving forwards than having to retrace your steps to make sure everything lines up.


You Lead Better When You Acknowledge Your Failures | MWM
Embrace Authenticity = Embrace honesty when you make mistakes. People respect leaders who openly admit when they are wrong and work to make things right. When you are willing to be vulnerable—accepting and learning from your mistakes and failures—you and your team can move forward. Authenticity doesn’t guarantee success, but inauthenticity guarantees failure. 


Authenticity Earns Credibility
Be Authentic And Real = We all want to have honest relationships and be around people who are honest. Honest people are truthful, what they say is reflected in what they do. They have a sense of character and authenticity. Everyone has good days and bad days, and when we admit that and walk through life in the middle of the road, we develop credibility and live honestly. 


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Proverbs 12:22 ESV Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 11:3 ESV The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
Proverbs 19:1 ESV Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
2 Corinthians 8:21 ESV For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of man.
John 8:32 ESV And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Proverbs 6:16-20 ESV There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Luke 8:15  As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
Mark 1:22 Then they entered Capernaum. When the Sabbath arrived, Jesus lost no time in getting to the meeting place. He spent the day there teaching. They were surprised at his teaching—so forthright, so confident—not quibbling and quoting like the religion scholars.
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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Procrastination Quotes

Quotes About Procrastination 

  • "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -Don Knuth 
  • "Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day -- putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place." -- Nido Qubein
  • "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis
  • "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault." -- Cardinal Newman
  • Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. --Mason Cooley, American Writer
  • Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. --Wayne Gretzky, Canadian Athlete (1961-  )
  • Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. --Napoleon Hill, American Writer (1883-1970)
  • The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. --Walt Disney








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In today’s episode we’re talking about the greatest gap in life. That’s the gap between “I should” and “I did.” John Maxwell calls this the procrastination gap. Today John is going to talk to you about this gap and when good timing becomes procrastination. Then he’ll teach you the 3 P’s that stop procrastination. 
Once John is done with his lesson, Mark is joined again by Chris Goede as they discuss the ways in which they apply these principles to their own leadership within the Maxwell Leadership organization.


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Procrastination
the act of delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring:
This is no time for procrastination - we need decisive action.

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Proverbs 13:4 ESV The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Proverbs 27:1 (MSG) Don’t brashly announce what you’re going to do tomorrow; you don’t know the first thing about tomorrow.
Luke 12:20 (MSG) “Just then God showed up and said, ‘Fool! Tonight you die. And your barnful of goods—who gets it?’
Proverbs 13:4 (MSG) Indolence wants it all and gets nothing; the energetic have something to show for their lives.
Proverbs 18:9 (MSG) Slack habits and sloppy work are as bad as vandalism.
Luke 9:62 (MSG) Jesus said, “No procrastination. No backward looks. You can’t put God’s kingdom off till tomorrow. Seize the day.”
Proverbs 13:4 A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
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Sunday, November 19, 2023

World View Quotes

Quotes About World View



  • Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World! --Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. --George Bernard Shaw
  • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. --C. S. Lewis
  • We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity. --Charles Colson
  • As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true. --Francis Schaeffer
  • God's people need to unashamedly and uncompromisingly stand on the Bible. We need to unashamedly proclaim a Christian worldview and the gospel, all the while giving answers for the hope we have. --Ken Ham
  • My wife and I come from a Christian worldview. --James Lankford





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WORLD, n. [This seems to be a compound word, and probably is named from roundness, the vault; but this is not certain.]
1. The universe; the whole system of created globes or vast bodies of matter.
2. The earth; the terraqueous globe; sometimes called the lower world.
3. The heavens; as when we speak of the heavenly world, or upper world.
4. System of beings; or the orbs which occupy space, and all the beings which inhabit them. Heb 11.
God--hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things; by whom also he made the worlds. Heb 1.
There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their Almighty sovereign.
5. Present state of existence; as while we are in the world.
Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world. Psa 73.
6. A secular life. By the world we sometimes understand the things of this world, its pleasures and interests. A great part of mankind are more anxious to enjoy the world to than secure divine favor.
7. Public life, or society; as banished from the world.
8. Business or trouble of life.
From this world-wearied flesh.
9. A great multitude or quantity; as a world of business; a world of charms.
10. Mankind; people in general; in an indefinite sense. Let the world see your fortitude.
Whose disposition, all the world well knows--
11. Course of life. He begins the world with little property, but with many friends.
12. Universal empire.
This through the east just vengeance hurld, and lost poor Antony the world.
13. The customs and manners of men; the practice of life. A knowledge of the world is necessary for a man of business; it is essential to politeness.
14. All the world contains.
Had I a thousand worlds, I would give them all for one year more to devote to God.
15. The principal nations or countries of the earth. Alexander conquered the world.
16. The Roman empire.
17. A large tract of country; a wide compass of things.
I must descry new worlds.
18. The inhabitants of the earth; the whole human race. John 3.
19. The carnal state or corruption of the earth; as the present evil world; the course of this world. Gal 1. Eph 2.
20. The ungodly part of the world.
I pray not for the world, but for them that thou hast given men. John 17.
21. Time; as in the phrase, world without end.
22. A collection of wonders. [Not in use.]

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John 15:20 (MSG) “When that happens, remember this: Servants don’t get better treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them.
John 8:12 (MSG) Jesus once again addressed them: “I am the world’s Light. No one who follows me stumbles around in the darkness. I provide plenty of light to live in.”
Jude 19 - It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
2 John 7 - For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
1 John 5:19 - We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
John 3:17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
John 15:18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
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