![]() ![]() Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned to live. The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. KennedyĪ life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. Benjamin DisraeliĪdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Work is good provided you do not forget to live. The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Frank HubbardĬatch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. The safe way to double your money is to fold it in over once and put it in your pocket. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people. He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. 'Better bread with water than cake with trouble' Russian Proverbįinished my reading challenge with 2 days left to spare 'An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today' Laurence J. 'It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose your own' Harry S. 'A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain' Mark Twain Funny, wise and stirring - it is a perfect source of strength to get us all through the coming months. The book is packed full of similarly motivational and inspirational quotes, proverbs, mantras and wry truths to help us through the recession, from such wits as Churchill, Disraeli and George Bernard Shaw. Gordon Brown had one up in 10 Downing Street and James May wears a Keep Calm T-shirt on the telly - it is suddenly everywhere. Though it never saw the light of day in 1939 (it was only supposed to go up if Britain was invaded), it has suddenly struck a chord in our current difficult times, now we are in need of a stiff upper lip and optimistic energy once again. Special note: You’ll Get Through This will be added to the Annotated Bibliography on Monday.Keep Calm and Carry On was a World War 2 government poster discovered in a dusty box nine years ago. Tomorrow’s blog: “Emotions- who’s in control?” Today’s question: During your healing, transformational journey, do you allow good or bad days to dictate your response, or are you making steady progress despite the circumstances? Please share. Max concluded that God’s sovereignty empowers our responsibility: They discovered that effective leaders exhibited “self-control in an out-of-control world.” Hansen studied leadership in turbulent times. While we can’t undo our downsizing or vocation loss, we can map out a strategy. God is all over our downsizing or vocation loss.” God will outlive our downsizing or vocation loss. To paraphrase Joseph’s response to our ministry downsizing or vocation loss: “God preceded our downsizing or vocation loss. Yet Joseph began and ended his famine crisis assessment with references to God. It may seem more natural to us to recite our woes rather than heaven’s strength. Pastor Lucado states that calamities often leave us off-balance and confused. One poster, held in reserve for an extreme crisis such as a German invasion, never was released to the public. ![]() Encouraging slogans were printed on these posters. Max Lucado mentions in Chapter 14 (“Keep Calm and Carry On”) of You’ll Get Through This that in the days immediately preceding war (World War II) with Germany, the British government commissioned a series of posters to be distributed around England. ![]()
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