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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Captive Quotes

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  • Captive people have a need for song. --Michelle Cliff
  • Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. --Marie Curie




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Hold Them Captive = When someone is captivating, they hold the attention of others. This is a difficult challenge today as attention spans continue to drop. If we are engaging and captivating, we have a chance to hold the attention of others long enough for them to act on our words. The key is to hold people captive with the great ideas you have to deliver. 


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2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Revelation 13:10 - If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Colossians 2:8 - See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Ephesians 4:8 - Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”
Galatians 3:23 - Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
2 Corinthians 10:5 - We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Romans 7:23 - but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Romans 7:6 - But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Ephesians 4:8 That is why the Scriptures say, “When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to his people.”
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,
Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
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Monday, March 13, 2023

Conviction Quotes

Quotes About Conviction

  • An indictment is not a conviction. --Howard Coble
  • Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. --Abraham Lincoln
  • Convictions are prisons. --Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Convictions do not imply reasons. --Margaret Deland
  • To win the war against fear, we must know the true God as He is revealed in the Bible. He works to give us lasting peace. He receives joy, not from condemning us but in rescuing us from the devil. Yes, the Lord will bring conviction to our hearts concerning sin, but it is so He can deliver us from sin's power and consequences. In its place, the Lord works to establish healing, forgiveness and peace. --Francis Frangipane
  • Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason. I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other - my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen. --Martin Luther
  • What convinces is conviction. --Lyndon B. Johnson
  • What matters is your convictions. --Aniekee Tochukwu




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Passion Is Contagious = The stronger you believe it, the more people feel it. When a speaker not only teaches with clarity, but is filled with incredible conviction, passion, and heart, it draws people in emotionally. When people are drawn in, they admire and the passion becomes contagious ... and then it becomes powerful. Our greatest communication is in areas where our life has been changed or touched.



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Passionate Conviction Drives Focus = People who have conviction believe in something so passionately that they will not be persuaded to lose focus. Conviction is the driving force that keeps them on task. What are you doing in your life that is so important that nothing can cause you to lose focus? 


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Hebrews 3:14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
Joshua 14:7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,
1 Thessalonians 1:5 (NET) in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).
Romans 8:1 (NET) There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 (NET) A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
2 Timothy 3:16 every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,
John 16:8 ESV And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Tradition Quotes

 Quotes about Tradition

  • Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. -- Winston Churchill
  • Traditions are answers that have been discovered to enduring questions. --ROGER SCRUTON
  • A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. --SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL




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Matthew 15:2-3, 6 ESV - 2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat." 3 He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ... 6 he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.
Mark 7:3, 5, 8-9, 13 ESV - 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, ... 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" ... 8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men." 9 And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! ... 13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do."
Colossians 2:8 ESV - 8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV - 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.


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Monday, October 09, 2023

Endure Quotes

Quotes About Endure 

  • Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. --Ovid, Poet
  • Endure the present, and watch for better things. --Virgil, Poet
  • Endure the present, and watch for better things. --Virgil
  • What is without periods of rest will not endure. --Ovid
  • A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. --Christopher Reeve
  • The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. --Alexis de Tocqueville
  • I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. --Og Mandino
  • It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. --Julius Caesar
  • Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. --John F. Kennedy
  • Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. --OVID






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It Separates The Good From The Great = Embrace the concept of endurance. Don’t quit. Stay with it. Commit to enduring, even when the glitz and glamor fades. People who endure—in their organizations, marriages, families, and friendships—are on the road to greatness. Endurance is the key—let’s endure today.




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1 Corinthians 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Genesis 8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
James 5:11 We give great honor to those who endure under suffering. For instance, you know about Job, a man of great endurance. You can see how the Lord was kind to him at the end, for the Lord is full of tenderness and mercy.
2 Peter 1:6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness,
1 Peter 2:20 - For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
Revelation 14:12 - Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Revelation 13:10 - If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Revelation 3:10 - Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Revelation 2:19 - “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
Revelation 2:3 - I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary.
James 1:12 ESV Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Habit Quotes

Quotes About Habit 

  • Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. – Anonymous
  • Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. 
  • Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. - Warren Buffet
  • Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you. Rob Gilbert
  • Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do. - Sean Covey
  • Establish habits of faith that will hold you firm in unsteady times. 
  • Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing. --WILT CHAMBERLAIN
  • Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly.  Shaquille O'Neal
  • Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
  • Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Dale Carnegie
  • First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you. - Rob Gilbert
  • Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. Tim McCarver
  • He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads Thomas Jefferson
  • I have a habit of falling too hard and falling too fast and getting my hopes up for something that won't last.
  • If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. - Aristotle
  • It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin
  • It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.
  • It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! --Merril Markoe
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. 
  • Ninety-nine percent of the failures comes from people who have the habit of making excuses. George W. Carve
  • Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. Ovid (43 BC - AD 17) Roman poet.
  • Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid (43 BC-17); Roman poet.
  • Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. Herman Melville
  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. --THOMAS A. EDISON
  • People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold. John Jay Chapman
  • Quality is not an act, it is a habit. - Aristotle
  • The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – SAMUEL JOHNSON
  • The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. J. Paul Getty
  • The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. Napoleon Hill
  • There are two types of habits: ones which comfort us, and ones which would be a comfort if we stopped. – Catherine Pulsifer
  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.  --WILL DURANT
  • We become what we habitually contemplate. George Russell
  • We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. – John Dryden
  • When I tell you I love you, I don't say it out of habit. I say it to remind you that you are the best thing that has ever happened to me.
  • Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. Albert Gray
  • Without the work of the cross we would be quite helpless. The cross enables us to come out free from under the heaviest and most powerful mental bondage. Not all the power of Satan, or sin, or habit can hold us captive any longer Tom Marshall
  • You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.  Vince Lombardi
  • Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny. --MARGARET THATCHER
  • Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all. --Ovid
  • A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. --DESIDERIUS ERASMUS




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Improve Your Life With Good Habits - In James Clear’s book Atomic Habits, he teaches us how to cultivate good habits. One of the things he teaches is that once you create good habits in your life, your life automatically improves. Build your habits based on your identity and who you are for best results. 


Should we make a habit of it or not? We all have habits—habits are the things that we do without thinking. Some habits are good, and some are bad. But while they all come to us naturally, we should make an effort to be aware of them.



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1 John 1:9 If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 5:13 NIV 13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.
Hebrews 10:25 - not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:25 NIV 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
James 5:16 Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Lamentations 2:2 - The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.
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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Imagination Quotes

Quotes About Imagination 

  • Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they'll ignore you. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox
  • Can you imagine the outcome if a parent honored each request of each child during a trip? We'd inch our bloated bellies from once ice-cream store to the next. . . . Can you imagine the chaos if God indulged each of ours?  Max Lucado (In the Eye of the Storm)
  • I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. 
  • Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Walter Lippmann (A Preface to Morality)
  • If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. –ALBERT EINSTEIN
  • Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall
  • It's time to start living the life you've imagined. Henry James
  • Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.  Walt Disney
  • Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. Benjamin Disraeli
  • Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey
  • Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
  • My best friends are imaginary  Woody Paige
  • Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination. William Arthur Ward
  • Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. Jonathan Edwards
  • The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali
  • The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen. --ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
  • This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau
  • Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. Sydney J. Harris
  • To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.  Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); US physicist and inventor.
  • We hope for good things that we cannot be sure of getting. Not being sure, we tend to worry, But we should not worry too much about worry; it comes with being spirits who can imagine the future and cannot control it. The trick is to develop a strong enough faith to keep worry in it's place and then use worry to make us wise and careful in our hoping. Lewis Smedes (Keeping Hope Alive)
  • Winners, imagine their dreams 1st. They want it with all their heart & expect it to come true. There's no other way to live.  Joe Montana
  • Worry is a misuse of the imagination. Dan Zadra
  • You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
  • Live out of your imagination, not your history. --Stephen Covey
  • A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water. --Alan Fletcher, acclaimed British graphic designer







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How To Reach Your Dreams = Imagination allows people to see themselves not only as they are, but as they imagine themselves to be. Imagination, paired with determination, allows you to reach your dreams. 

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Imagination calls us to see things as they could be rather than as they are. When our imagination is ticking, we are leaving behind all our perceived and uninvited limitations, and we are reaching for things unseen, things we wholeheartedly believe can “be,” things that already “are” in our minds. When you go throughout your day today, be aware of your response to the world around you. Are you more often asking yourself, “Why?” or are you instead boldly venturing to ask, “Why not?!”

Be a 'Why Not?' Person

Have you ever hit a wall and thought, "I wonder what is on the other side." Allow your imagination to go and dream about your next chapter. That's the best part about imagination, there are no set boundaries - dream on!

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You probably get asked this a lot, where do you imagine yourself in five to ten years? Do you remember when you were a kid and it seemed like your imagination ran freely and there were no limits to where it could go? As we get older we seem to lose that ability to imagine. What can you imagine for yourself? Take five minutes today to answer that question!

Believe in 'More'

When you stop and take a look around, it is incredible all the discoveries you will see. Those discoveries happened because people took a moment and imagined why the world would be better with them in it. Your imagination is a beautiful thing that you should never take for granted! So next time you look at something, imagine what it could be and go after it.





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Ephesians 3:20 Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us
Proverbs 18:11 (NLT) The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense; they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.
James 1:7 For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything [at all] from the Lord,
2 Peter 1:20 Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet's own imagination,
Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Act 17:29 Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.
Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
Psalm 73:7 From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil imaginations have no limits.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Ephesians 1:17-18 ESV That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Colossians 3:2 ESV Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
1 Timothy 6:5 - and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
1 Corinthians 8:2 - If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
1 Corinthians 2:9 - But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Thoughts Quote

Quotes About Thoughts 



  • A person is but the product of their thoughts. What they think, they become. --MAHATMA GANDHI
  • Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. --Willie Nelson 
  • The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --Marcus Aurelius 
  • With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. --Eleanor Roosevelt 
  • Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! --Bob Marley 
  • We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. --Swami Vivekananda 
  • Change your thoughts and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale 
  • A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. --Wade Boggs 
  • Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. --Alexander Graham Bell
  • The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. --BLAISE PASCAL

    Thoughts To Live By
    • ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
    • TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
    • THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
    • FOUR. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.
    • FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.
    • SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
    • SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.
    • EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
    • NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
    • TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name-calling.
    • ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.
    • TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.
    • THIRTEEN! .... When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'
    • FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and outstanding achievements involve great risk.
    • FIFTEEN. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.
    • SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
    • SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
    • EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
    • NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
    • TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
    • TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.
    • Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny. --MARGARET THATCHER







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    Choose Thoughts That Strengthen You = Choose thoughts that strengthen you—we often don’t notice the things we tell ourselves, but those thoughts shape how we act. When your thoughts build you up, you feel more confident and capable; when they tear you down, you feel stuck and unsure. So let go of the thoughts that make you weak, and hold on to the ones that help you grow.



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    Thoughtfulness Is An Asset In Life = A thoughtful person is one who spends their time maximizing their words and actions. This type of person's words and actions weigh more than others because they have taken the time to think about others before taking action. So quit thinking about yourself and become a person of significance—a person of thoughtfulness.
    Thoughtfulness is the stepping stone to making an impact = A thoughtful person spends their time maximizing their words and their actions. Their words weigh more than average words. Their actions weigh more than average words. When they take action, it has a great impact, and even greater return. They are considered wise and considerate. The example they set is above average. But why? Because they quit thinking of themselves and put others first, and they were able to become a person of significance. 



    Are You Nurturing Thoughts That Are Nurturing You?
    Nurture Healthy Thoughts = What thoughts are you nurturing the most in your mind? Are those thoughts helping and serving you in the direction you want to go? Today is an opportunity for you to pre-decide the thoughts you are going to nurture. When you nurture healthy thoughts, it will lead you in a positive direction. 

    Good Thoughts Shared Become Great Thoughts | MWM



    The most frequent word in the Old Testament (מחשׁבת, maḥăshebheth, from the verb חשׁב, ḥāshabh, “to think”) refers to a “device,” or a purpose firmly fixed, as in the passage in Isa (55:7-9) where the “thought” of God and of man are contrasted (compare Psa_40:5; Psa_92:5; Jer_29:11). In the New Testament διαλογισμός, dialogismós (Mat_15:19; 1Co_3:20), refers to the inner reasoning or deliberation of one with himself. 


    It is so important to be aware of your thoughts—and to take control of them. Your thoughts can literally make or break you; they shape who you become! Thoughts are incredibly powerful! So, while leaders are drawn to taking action—and that’s great, and that is necessary — that action would be so much more effective if they first learned how to spend some time thinking. Take some time today to simply think.




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    Thought
    the act of thinking about or considering something, an idea or opinion, or a set of ideas about a particular subject:

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    Isaiah 55:8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord . “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
    Proverbs 16:3 (MSG) Put God in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place.
    Mark 2:6 But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves,
    Mark 7:21 For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
    James 2:4 - have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
    Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
    1 Timothy 3:7 - Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.
    Philippians 2:25 - I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
    2 Corinthians 11:3 - But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
    2 Corinthians 10:5 - We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
    Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
    Philippians 4:8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honor, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
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