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LABOR
If you snooze you will lose
There are men who walk in their sleep but I don’t know of any that work in their sleep. We need to wake up and smell the coffee
Life is not by luck but by pluck, it’s not by chance but by stance,
It’s not by option but by adoption, it’s not by happenstance but by inheritance,
It’s not by our selection but by God’s election, it’s not by our aspiring but by our acquiring – Daisy Osborn
Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there
We need to aspire, desire, require, admire then perspire before we can inspire
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration – Thomas Edison
A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job – Zig Ziglar
And the first little chick with a cute little shrug said, “I wish I had me a big fat bug”.
The second little chick with a funny little squirm said, “I wish I had me a nice fat worm”.
The third little chick with a funny little squeal said, “I wish I had me some nice yellow meal”.
“Look here you three!”, said the hen in the patch, “If you’re ever going to eat, you better learn to scratch!”
You can’t push anyone up a ladder if he’s not willing to climb a little himself – Andrew Carnegie
Sitting still and wishing makes no man great, the Lord sends the fishing, but you must dig the bait
The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward through the night
You can play now and pay later or you can pay now and play later
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat - Ann Landers
LAUGHTER
Laughter is a part of the human survival kit. Laughter is to life what a shock absorber is to a car
Laughter is a tranquilizer that has no bad side effects, only good after effects
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside
It’s my party I can laugh if I want to
Laughter is an instant vacation! – Milton Berle
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people – Victor Borge
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities – Theodor Geisel
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face – Victor Hugo
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you only get wet
Laughter has no foreign accent – Paul Lowney
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects – Arnold Glasgow
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities - Jean Houston
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul - Yiddish Proverb
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash - Puzant Kevork Thomajan
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad - Thomas Carlyle
If we can open your mind to laughter, we can slip in a little information - Virginia Tooper
The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste and costs no money is laughter - John Mason
LAW
Laws are passed then bypassed
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law – Winston Churchill
To ask the Lord why He allows suffering to occur is like asking the Secretary of Transportation why so many accidents occur. His answer, “Every time a law is broken an accident is apt to occur”
We need tougher child abuse laws because parents haven’t taken way too much abuse from their children
It was the rod of Moses, the Law, that struck the rock (Jesus)
Seatbelts are not as confining as wheelchairs
LAZINESS
The quickest way to lose what laurels you have won is to rest upon them
For every man killed by overwork in the cause of Christ ten thousand die from laziness
What parable do you like best, asked the Sunday School teacher. Johnny replied, “The one about the multitude that loafs and fishes”
Boss to lazy worker, “I don’t know how we’re ever going to get by without you but starting Monday we are going to try”
Slip in, slump down, sleep through and slide out could also be called – load up, lag in, lay down, look, listen and leave
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks – Phillips Brooks
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves – W.C. Fields
Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it – Thomas Taylor
One teenager went to the doctor because he was having trouble sleeping. “well doc, I do pretty well at night and in the afternoon, but late morning all I do is toss and turn”
The only time a lazy person succeeds is when he tries to do nothing - John Mason
Some say nothing is impossible, yet there are a lot of people doing nothing every day
The lazier a man is, the more he is going to do tomorrow
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails - Robert Half
LEADERSHIP
Leadership is not steering the ship, it is charting the course
Leaders see farther than others see, see more than others see, and see before others see – John Maxwell
Carpenter’s rule – measure twice, saw once
The cargo car never pulls up and connects to the locomotive. The locomotive backs up to the pull car and takes the initiative. Likewise with leaders
I love leadership that sniffs out a problem and says, “Let’s fix it,” instead of ignoring it – Tommy Tenney, regarding Jesus washing the disciples’ smelly feet
A good executive never puts off till tomorrow what he can have someone else do today
Two ways to disaster – taking nobody’s advice and talking everybody’s advice
Never breathe life into something God is killing and never kill something God is resurrecting – Mike Murdock
Leader must exemplify – competence, connection and character – John Maxwell
Good leaders employ others, Great leaders deploy others
Train the Twelve, not the multitude. Jesus didn’t waste His time on problem people. We only have enough energy afforded us for our assignment.
Staff your weaknesses. Don’t try to do what you were not made to do. Let someone else take care of those areas of concern
I don’t have time, like Jeremiah did, to talk to rebels. I only talk to the obedient – Mike Murdock
Don’t ever criticize anything in your company until you’ve got a better way of doing it worked out on paper and you’re willing to risk your reputation as an executive on its workability – Maxey Jarmon
A leader knows the way, shows the way and goes the way – John Maxwell
They can’t get you from the backside if you don’t let them on the inside
Always be aware of your principles and principals
I can’t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days – Daniel Boone
If you lead through fear, you will have little to respect; but if you lead through respect, you will have little to fear
F.D.R. once said that what he wanted on his staff was young men with a passion for anonymity.
A real leader faces the music even when he doesn’t like the tune
If you are looking for a leader to follow, find someone with a limp
If you want to be a civic leader – life is one big bowl of charities
A leader is a dealer in hope – Napoleon Bonaparte
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you – Bear Bryant
He who cannot obey, cannot command – Benjamin Franklin
Boss depends on authority, leader depends on goodwill.
Boss inspires fear, leader inspires enthusiasm.
Boss says “I”, leader says “we”.
Boss fixes the blame, leader fixes the problem.
Boss knows how to do it, leader shows how to do it.
Boss says “Go!”, leader says “Let’s Go!” – John Maxwell
A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do – Anthony Dadovano
Leaders develop daily, not in a day – John Maxwell
A leader is one who see more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see – Leroy Eims
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership – John Galbraith
I want people to follow me because of talent, not title
You can love people without leading them but you cannot lead them without loving them
Organize or you will agonize. It’s not how hard you work but how smart you work – Maxwell
The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will be boss – Carl Wood
We herd sheep, drive cattle, but lead men
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it – Theodore Roosevelt
Your mentor is a prophecy of your future. Mistakes and mentors are keys to your future
A protégé wants to glean what the mentor has learned; a parasite wants to take what the mentor has earned. Parasites want what is in the mentor’s hand, protégés want what is in the mentor’s heart – Mike Murdock
I’m not your companion, I’m your coach. I’m not your friend, I’m your father. I’m not your pal, I’m your pastor. I’m not your buddy, I’m your brother.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be – Rosalyn Carter
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit – Arnold Glasgow
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system – Stephen Covey
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd – Max Lucado
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver – Mark Clement
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers – Ralph Nader
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep – Arabian Proverb
Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you – Henry Gilmer
He that has no followers is only taking a walk – John Maxwell
Get an expectation, get the expertise then make the expenditure
If the individual is failing you need a new player; if the whole team is failing you need a new coach
Leadership is not a position, rank or title. It is the ability to get followers, period, which is one word – influence
To lead the people, walk behind them – Lao Tzu
Would you follow you?
In equipping leaders…I model, I mentor, I monitor, I motivate, I multiply – John Maxwell
You can’t push anyone up a ladder who is not willing to climb a little himself – Andrew Carnegie
It’s whatever you learn after you know it all that counts – John Wooden
If you only walk in other men’s tracks you won’t make any new discoveries
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group - Russell
Every leader has two characteristics: (A) he is going somewhere, and (B) he is able to persuade others to with him - John Maxwell
While leaders attract followers, at any moment they must be able to walk away from them, lest they become followers themselves - Laurie Beth Jones
LIES
There are three kinds of lies: lies, white lies, and statistics
Three kinds of “white lies” – flattery, distortion and exaggeration
The flatterer has no genuine concern for the object of his effusive praise but actually shows contempt for the other person by his manipulation – Robert Jeffress
Pastor, asked about his church’s attendance, said, “between five and six hundred”. The denominational paper reported him as averaging sixty-seven”. The guy called him on it, “I thought you said…” “Well, yea”, came his reply, “Sixty-seven is between five and six hundred”
Little white lies can make you go color blind
Who lies for you will lie against you - Bosnian Proverb
A half-truth is a whole lie - Jewish Proverb
This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man - William Shakespeare
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives - Mark Twain
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him - Abraham Lincoln
Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it - Fulton J. Sheen
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you - Friedrich Neitzsche
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies - Pietro Aretino
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie - Ann Landers
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it - Adolf Hitler
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not - Thomas Paine
If we can open your mind to laughter, we can slip in a little information - Virginia Tooper
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one - Hitler
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else - George Bernard Shaw
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 tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions - Thomas Jefferson
Real eyes realize real lies
LIFE
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction – Louisa May Alcott
Life is like a coin, you can spend as you wish but you can only spend it once
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done I – George Bernard Shaw
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we have never used
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives – Albert Schweitzer
Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it that you can – Danny Kaye
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.
“It is all meaningless”, the man said to Ravi Zacharias. “You don’t believe that”, said Ravi. “Was your statement meaningful? Then you just proved that life has meaning”
In life, we do not remember the days, we remember the moments
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded – Emerson
Don't go through life, grow through life – Eric Butterworth
Make your life a mission - not an intermission – Arnold Glasgow
When the one great Scorer comes to write against your name;
He marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game – Grantland Rice
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living – B. C. Forbes
The unexamined life is not worth living – Socrates
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today – Dale Carnegie
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good – Bertrand Russell
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals – Aristotle
The best things in life aren't things – Art Buchwald
Live as if to die tomorrow – learn as if to live forever – Ghandi
The question is not, "What if I die tomorrow?" It is, "What if I live another 20 or 30 years the way I am?" – Kim Wolinski
If any man has a ‘why’ for his life, he can bear with almost any ‘how’ – Nietzsche
Life is what happens after you make other plans
Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes it makes you weep – Carl Sandburg
If you love the life you live, you will live a life of love
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it – Charles Swindoll
In the end it is not the years in your life that count but the life in your years – Abe Lincoln
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it! – Mother Teresa
Make your life a mission - not an intermission – Arnold Glasgow
Man must play, work, love and worship to get the most out of life – Sir Wlifred Grenfell
Life is not a problem to be solved but an adventure to be lived
We are interested in life after death when we really should be concerned with life after birth
Jean Paul Sarte, the French Existentialist, titled his life biography “Nausea”
The world is not persuaded by logic, learning, language or literature, but by life
We should measure our life by heartthrobs, not heartbeats
If we think the "hope of heaven" is the sum of Christ's gift, we will live out a spiritually juvenile existence, pointed toward heaven but pointless on earth - Jack Hayford
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain
The question is not, "Where will you spend eternity?" but "Where are you spending it?" If we hope to go on advancing, unfolding, growing, developing after death, we must be participating now in eternal life - H. Richardson Rasmusson
Every person's life is a diary in which he or she means to write one story and id forced to write yet another - Wallace Hamilton
Too many people are having what might be called 'near-life experiences' - Charles Parnell
LIQUOR
I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front ‘o me
Hangover: the moaning after the night before
Champagne at night gives a real pain in the morning
There they are at the cocktail party, drinking martinis, spearing the olives, stabbing the friends and spilling the beans, seeing double and acting single
I drink to get away from her, but when I come home I see two of her!
There is no such thing as an alcoholic that is anonymous
Boozers are losers!
There are two things that finish off an automobile, lacquer and liquor
Bad accidents happen during hunting season when both gun and hunter are loaded
The way to a girl’s heart – candy is dandy but liquor is quicker
Booze is poison in the drinking fountain, poison ivy in the bridal bouquet, strychnine in the baby’s bottle, a rattlesnake in the nursery, a mad dog on the playground, a rapist in the dormitory, a maniac in the old folk’s home – R.G. Lee
There are men who have battled their way to the top then bottled their way back to the bottom
Those who regurgitate their beer just prove that they have more sense in their bowels than their brains!
LISTENING
Listening is a commitment and a compliment. It is a commitment to understand how the other person feels, and it is a compliment because it says, “I care about what’s happening to you” – Matthew McKay
Sleep not when others speak – George Washington
There are four soil types in the parable (listeners) – stubborn soil, strangled soil, stony soil and steady soil
LORDSHIP
He is a Lord that saves but much more He is a Savior that lords
He is not our Lord OR savior Jesus Christ, but our Lord AND savior Jesus Christ
The question to Peter was not, “do you love preaching?” or “Do you love church?” or “do you love sheep?” but rather, “do you love Me?” Loving Christ is the ultimate prerequisite to experiencing true revival
The seeking it took to find Him will be the seeking it will take to keep Him
The first official ceremony in a new believer’s life is attending his own funeral. The old man must die first
Cling to your convictions, cling to your courage and cling to your Christ
We need to let people know what we stand for and what we will not stand for
The greatest ability is dependability
Hal Holbrook spent three and a half hours a day getting into Mark Twain’s makeup, but he spent thirteen years getting into Twain’s psyche. Likewise, a Christian can prepare a talk about Jesus in three and a half hours but it takes a lifetime to get into Jesus’ psyche
According to Genesis chapters one and two communion comes before dominion
Do we prize fellowship ABOUT God more than fellowship WITH God?
God alone sees the heart and the heart alone sees God
LOVE
It’s one thing to let a kiss fool you – it’s another to let a fool kiss you
Love is fire. But whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell –Jason Jordan
Love your enemies. Without them you’d probably have no one to blame but yourself
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it – Dr. Karl Menninger
Love makes the wildest spirit tame and the tamest spirit wild
We can do no great things, only small things with great love – Mother Theresa
Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round, but love is what makes the ride worthwhile – Franklin Jones
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead – Bertrand Russell
Some live by lust, some by law. We live by love
Bald in front you’re a thinker; bald in back you’re a lover; bald in front and back you just think you’re a lover
I never hated a man enough to give him back his diamonds – Zsa Zsa Gabor
He who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one – Japanese Proverb
Turtulian wrote – “How those Christians love each other!” What would he write today?
I’ve always wanted to live a FULL life, but Mike Murdock has taught us to live an EMPTY life, that is, we should go to bed every night emptied of our mercy, love and forgiveness. If there is someone you need to say, “I love you” to, do it before you go to bed. Don’t store up money, love or mercy. Spend it for others. Don’t go into eternity with anything unused.
There is a convenience love and a covenant love. Marriages need the latter and so does our relationship with each other
Instead of a “many splendored thing” our love has become a many splintered thing
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui – Helen Keller
The best evidence of a living Lord is a loving Church
God loves like a Mother (Isa 66:13), Father (Psa 103:13), Brother (Prov 17:17), Friend (Prov 18:24), Husband (Isa 54:5)
Let’s turn our creeds into deeds
You can’t spell “brothers” without others
Others Lord, yes others – let this my motto be,
Help me to live for others, that I might live like Thee
Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others – William Ward
Theology is worked out in sociology – “Love thy neighbor as thyself”
There are a lot of Christians like porcupines – they have a lot of good points but you can’t get close to them
Before Jesus ever thought of Himself on the Cross, He prayed for others – “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” – He served others – “Woman, behold thy son” – and He ministered to others – “this day shalt thou be with me in paradise”. It was after He prayed for others, served others and ministered to others that He said, “into thy hands commit Thee my spirit”
We are known by the fruit we bear not the fertilizer we spread – Bob Harrington
We need each other – if you try to make it as a lone ranger you will become a lonely ranger
All things are possible to him that believes, not him that belittles
Be careful of the words you say, Keep them soft and sweet,
‘cause you never know from day to day, which one’s you’ll have to eat
Just because you’re up in the air harping about something doesn’t make you an angel
Then there’s the guy who is on the critical list – he criticizes everything
The heaviest load you can carry is a grudge
To the world you may just be one person, but to one person you may be the whole world.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired – Mark Twain
We are each created angels with only one wing and can only fly while embracing each other
If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God! – Dwight L. Moody
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration - David Herbert Lawrence
Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific - Lord Byron
There is only one tragedy in life, and that is the loss of God's love…there is no other tragedy - W.T. Thompson
LOYALTY
Loyalty is making yourself a part of an organization and making that organization a part of you
Loyalty is close kin to royalty. One who is loyal in conduct is royal in character – RG Lee
A dog that follows everybody is of no good to anybody - Vance Havner
A man who is partly faithful to his wife is not faithful at all. A man who is partly faithful to his family or his country or his church is a traitor. A divided loyalty is not loyalty at all - Vance Havner
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