Today's Quote will Unlock the Door to Success

  "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." ~ George Washington

5 Favorite Quotes on Commitment

"You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment." ~Charles Spurgeon 

"If you do not plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you." ~Kay Arthur

"More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks." ~Chuck Swindoll

"Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you." ~Rick Warren

"Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed." ~David Jeremiah

Today's Quotation

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable." -Goethe (1749-1832)

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The Last Word

Near the end of the Apostle Paul's life, he wrote: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." The last words may not totally reveal the truth person but they do speak volumes.  Check out these famous last words.

"I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.-Isaac Newton

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have" -Leonardo da Vinci

"I am just going outside and I may be some time" -Lawrence Oates (Oates was an explorer on the doomed Scott expedition to the South Pole that  sacrificed himself in an attempt to save his starving companions.)

"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon." -John Newton

"I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared." -Cesare Borgia

Today's Quote: The Greatest Battles

"Many of us feel the greatest problems are around us, but the greatest battles we face in life are within us. God designed us to be dependent on Him, and we tend to ask Him to change everything around us when He wants to change us from the inside." -Brian Steenhoek, Straight From God's Corner

Two Great Quotes About Attitude!

"A test of a Christian’s character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus." ~ Lester Roloff

"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude." -Chuck Swindoll

Courage, Character, Criticism

“Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.” ~Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

Speaking of Character

"The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions." -Junius (1740-1818)

"A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's." -Richter (1763-1825)

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." -Macaulay (1800-1859)

"Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking." -Chinese Proverb

"Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing..." -George Eliot (1819-1880)