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PARENTING
"Before I was married I had three theories about raising children. Now I have three children and no theories." - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

PARTNERSHIP
"The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it." - Paul Harvey

"I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other." - John D. Rockefeller

"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be." - Charles Brower

"It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone." - Andrew Carnegie

PAST
"The Past is only a point of reference...not a place of residence." - Pastor Dale Evrist

"You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past." - Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe

PATIENCE
The great New England preacher Phillips Brooks was noted for his poise and quiet manner. At times, however, even he suffered moments of frustration and irritability. One day a friend saw him feverishly pacing the floor like a caged lion. "What's the trouble, Mr. Brooks?" he asked. "The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't!"

"Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast." - William Shakespeare

PEOPLE SKILLS
"I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than for any other ability under the sun." - John D. Rockefeller

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie

PERSPECTIVE
"Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw mud, one saw stars." - Unknown

POTENTIAL
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - William Morrow

PRACTICALITY
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau

PRAYER
"Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents." - Oswald Chambers

"God does nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley

"Prayer is striking the winning blow. . . . Service is gathering up the results." - S.D. Gordon

"God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon earth." - E.M. Bounds

PREACHING
"A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side - the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

PREDICTIONS
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." (A corporate memo from telegraph operator Western Union, 1876)

"Everything that can be invented, has been invented." (U.S. Patent Office Commissioner Charles Duell, 1899)

"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad." (The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer Horace Rackham not to invest in the Ford Motor Company. 1903)

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" (Response from associates of RCA founder David Sarnoff, circa 1920’s, when he proposed investing in the young radio industry)

"[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." (Twentieth Century-Fox studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946)

"There will never be a bigger plane built." (A Boeing engineer after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that carried ten people)

"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn’t likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." (Business Week, August 2, 1968)

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’ the idea must be feasible." (Yale University management professor’s comment on a paper written by Fred Smith proposing an overnight delivery service, circa early 1970’s. Smith went on to start Federal Express)

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." (Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

"That kid can’t play baseball." (Milwaukee Braves minor league manager Tommy Holmes, 1952, appraising Henry Aaron, who went on to break Babe Ruth’s all-time record for home runs)

"He’ll never be any good." (Baltimore Colts owner Robert Irsay, 1983, evaluating future Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion quarterback John Elway)

"You will never amount to very much." (A Munich teacher to a ten-year-old Albert Einstein, 1889)

"Can’t act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little." (MGM executive, 1929, about Fred Astaire’s screen test)

"You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck." (Grand Ole Opry manager Jim Denny, 1954, firing Elvis Presley after one performance)

"We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." (Decca Recording Company, 1962, upon turning down the Beatles)

"Get rid of the pointed ears guy." (NBC television executive to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, 1966, recommending the new show eliminate the Vulcan character Mr. Spock)

PRIDE
"Let pride go afore, shame will follow after." - George Chapman

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

PRINCIPLE
"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

PRODUCTIVITY
"Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." - James Ling

PROGRESS
The Australian coat of arms pictures two creatures - the emu, a flightless bird, and the kangaroo. The animals were chosen because they share a characteristic that appealed to the Australian citizens. Both the emu and the kangaroo can only move forward, not back. The emu's three-toed foot causes it to fall if it tries to go backwards, and the kangaroo is prevented from moving in reverse by its large tail. Those who truly choose to follow Jesus become like the emu and the kangaroo, moving only forward, never back.

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James B. Conant

PROGRESS
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backwards." - Abraham Lincoln

PURPOSE
"There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." - Albert Schweitzer

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." - Washington Irving

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