The soil says, “Don’t bring me your need. Bring me your seed.”
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Good people are found, not changed. Recently, I read a headline that said, ‘We don’t teach out people to be nice. We simply hire nice people’. Wow! What a clever shortcut.
Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn’t say, “If you need, you will reap.” It says, “If you plant, you will reap.” The guy says, “I really need to reap.” Then you really need to plant.
You must get good at one of two things: planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.
At the end of the day you whould play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.
The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.
We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast.
We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Beware those who seek to take care of you, lest your caretakers become your jailers.
My father taught me always to do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
A good customer well taken care of could be more valuable that $10,000 worth of advertising.
Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to your band but not the marketplace.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.
If you are not willing to rist the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Succcess is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom.
Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
I used to say ‘I sure hope things will change.’ Then I learned tha the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
If you don’t like where you are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.
Don’t join an easy crowd. You won’t grow. go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
There are two parts to influence. First, influence is powerful. And second, it is subtle. You wouldn’t let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do the have me going? What do they have me thinking? And, most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?
Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, “Follow me” Now, that’s brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn’t have to say.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep it flourishing and growing.
You cannot succeed by yourself. It’s hard to find a rich hermit.