“People don’t steal ideas. Ideas are cheap. Implementation makes the difference.” – Seth Godin
“Credibility is not in ideas but in execution.” – Bob Roberts, Jr.
“The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.” – T. S. Eliot
“The ship is safest when it is in port. But that’s not what ships were made for.” – Paulo Coelho
“Just about every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.” – Seth Godin
““If the Gospel isn’t touching others, it hasn’t touched you.” — Curry R. Blake
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshiping we are becoming.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In confession the break-through to community takes place. Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown …” – Dietrich Bonhoffer in Life Together (p.112)
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann
“It should not bother us that [during different epochs] the Christian faith was perceived and experienced in new and different ways. The Christian faith is intrinsically incarnational; therefore unless the church chooses to remain a foreign entity, it will always enter into the context in which it happens to find itself.” – David Bosch in Transforming Mission
“What other church is there besides institutional? There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian except the church. There’s sin in the local bank. There’s sin in the grocery stores. I really don’t understand this naïve criticism of the institution. I really don’t get it. Frederick von Hugel said the institution of the church is like the bark on the tree. There’s no life in the bark. It’s dead wood. But it protects the life of the tree within. And the tree grows and grows. If you take the bark off, it’s prone to disease, dehydration, death. So, yes, the church is dead but it protects something alive. And when you try to have a church without bark, it doesn’t last long. It disappears, gets sick, and it’s prone to all kinds of disease, heresy, and narcissism.” -Eugene Peterson
“Never trade what you want at the moment for what you want most.” - John Maxwell
“As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say, and more attention to what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie
“ The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good ” – Samuel Johnson
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” - Colin Powell
“If you find yourself criticizing other people, you’re probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself. Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only h arm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.” – Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
“Creativity thinks up new things. Innovation does new things.” - Theodore Levitt, The E Myth
“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.” - Seth Godin
“Be fearless. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.” - Graham Hill
“We need to be reminded more than instructed.” – C.S. Lewis
“The greatest hindrance to God doing a new thing is the last thing he did.” – John Jenkins
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” – Robert Frost
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” - John Maxwell
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” - Dale Carnegie
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” – Caterina
