LUCK...

He worked by day

And toiled by night.

He gave up play

And some delight.

Dry books he read,

New things to learn.

And forged ahead,

Success to earn.

He plodded on with

Faith and pluck;

And when he won,

Men called it LUCK.

Recognizing God's help...

A flood was threatening a small town and everyone was leaving for safety except one man who said, "God will save me. I have faith." As the water level rose a jeep came to rescue him, the man refused, saying "God will save me. I have faith." As the water level rose further, he went up to the second storey, and a boat came to help him. Again he refused to go, bellowing, "God will save me. I have faith." The water kept rising and the man climbed on to the roof. A helicopter came to rescue him, but he again said, "God will save me. I have faith." Well, finally he drowned. When he reached his Maker he angrily questioned, "I had complete faith in you. Why did you ignore my prayers and let me drown?" The Lord replied, "Who do you think sent you the jeep, the boat, and the helicopter?"

It all starts with a thought...

You sow a THOUGHT, you reap an ACTION.
You sow an action, you reap a HABIT.
You sow a habit, you reap a CHARACTER.
You sow a character, you reap a DESTINY.

 It all starts with a THOUGHT.

As you sow, so shall you reap...

We must have the desire to sow. Desire is the starting point.

What we sow, so shall we reap. If we sow potatoes, we are only going to reap potatoes, not tomatoes.

We must sow before we reap. Sowing takes place before reaping; we must give before we get. We cannot expect the fireplace to give us heat before we put in the fuel.

Some people are constantly looking to get before they give. It does not work this way.

When we sow a seed, we do not reap a single fruit - our harvest is manifold. If we sow a positive seed our harvest will be manifold in the positive, and if we sow a negative one the harvest shall be manifold in the negative. It is not uncommon to see people going against nature's law.

A farmer knows that we cannot sow and reap in the same day. There is always a period of gestation.

Risk...

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach outfox another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest

hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has

nothing, and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they

cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves,

they have forfeited their freedom.

Only a person who risks is free.

A job well done...

"If a man is called to be street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

                                                            -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Attitude about work...

Three people were laying bricks and a passerby asked them what they were doing. The first one replied, "Don't you see I am making a living?" The second one said, "Don't you see I am laying bricks?" The third one said, "I am building a beautiful house." Three people doing the same thing gave totally different replies. The question is: did they have different attitudes? And would their attitudes affect their performance? The answer to both the questions is a clear YES.