Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.
You don’t hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.
It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint’s prayer is put into the bow of Christ’s intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
It is our work to cast care, and it is God’s work to take care.
A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.