2018 Noteworthy Notes

Over the year I compile various sayings and quotes that strike a chord with me. None are authored by me and I have given attribution when it was available or I remembered where I obtained the quote. Here is this year's list. Happy New Year and may it be your best one yet!

• Beware of pronouncing any verdict on the life of faith if you are not living it.
• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most elusive and most transient of passions, they’re required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part-George Bernard Shaw
• You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else
• First you make habits then the habit makes you-Jim Kwik
• Don’t Let yesterday take up too much of today-Will Rogers
• It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.— Millard Fuller 
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strongman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
• Push your limits or suffocate in your comfort
• If you can't change the people around you, CHANGE the people around you - James Altucher
• “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”― Epicurus
• "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness,“ -Albert Einstein
• “To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• A person who represents himself has a fool for a client.
• The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. 
• “Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.” — Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast
• Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
• “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Ana?s Nin
• The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; who are true & honest; who do not fear to call sin by its right name; whose conscience is true to duty; who will stand for the right though the heavens fall." E.G.White
• Be the who you needed when you were younger
• The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity
• Sometimes your greatest ability is your availability
• On social media, don’t compare your daily life with someone else’s highlight reel-Mike Kim
• Working hard is lazy - Tim Ferriss
• Changing a mind is different than having an argument. Persuasion takes patience, skill and insight, not force. - Seth godin 
• Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what to do
• If people don't laugh, the dream is too small - Robin Sharma
• The journey will be hard yet the voyage will be worth it  - Robin Sharma
• You can't teach from only one syllabus
• Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson
• “Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not ‘die’ in the winter but quietly prepare for another season.”― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
• The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
• If you feel I am too expensive then we have both saved wasting our time - Steve Sims
• “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” - Nelson Henderson
• God gave us all weaknesses. It’s a blessing to learn what they are
• I recognize that people will hire me when they need my services – not when I need their business.- Rod Burkert 
• Inevitable Failure: When one person has authority but doesn't lead, and another leads but doesn't have authority.
• “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”— Henry David Thoreau
• Great opportunities never have “great opportunity” in the subject line
• We are all apprentices in a craft no one ever masters-Ernest Hemingway
• We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.
• The myth is that the only purpose of a company is to maximize profits. That’s a fiction, and a dangerous one. Organizations exist to make things better for people, not the other way around. - Seth Godin
• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The biggest communication problem is that we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply.” -Stephen R. Covey
• The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”— Elbert Hubbard
• Help yourself and heaven will help you.”-- Jean de La Fontaine
• Baby steps still move us forward- Dave Ramsey  
• Don’t judge someone because they sin differently
• Good judgment comes from experience. And experience? Well that comes from poor judgment-Steve Sims
• In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business-Marcus Aurelius
• “Good friends are cheaper than therapy.”
• "Unless there is opposing wind, a kite cannot rise."-- Chinese proverb 
• “Don’t be the best. Be the favorite.” — Rich Mulholland
• “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ― John Dryden
• Focus on adding life to your years, not years to your life
•  “A leader cannot make tough decisions unless he or she is asked tough questions.”- Tim Russert
• The best thing someone can do for you is to do something for your kids
• Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, 'I will try again tomorrow.'” - Mary Anne Radmacher
• No one is remembered for what they planned to do.
• "The wound is the place where the light enters you." — Rumi
• In the dojo, aim for truth. At home, aim for harmony. At work, aim for progress. Among friends, aim for trust. In the world, aim for sincerity. - Awa Kenzo
• It’s good to know who hates you, and it’s good to be hated by the right people.” — Johnny Cash
• God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. - Reverend Billy Graham
• That which isn’t good for the hive, isn’t good for the bee - Marcus Aurelius
• There are no traffic jams along the extra mile-Roger Staubach
• What a shame it would be if we were waiting for God to say something while He’s been waiting on us to do something - Bob Goff
• Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. — Alan Cohen
• Expensive is not the relevant metric, utility is. -Seth Godin
• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius
• I would rather fail trying than fail watching-Bob Goff
• Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it. 
• Actions express priority 
• If you think your boss is stupid - remember, you wouldn't have a job if he was smarter." (Albert Grant)
• I value friendships that are measured by decades
• Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become. - Bob Goff
• Bible characters stumbled over their strong points, never their weak ones.
• I’d rather have stories to share than stuff to show-Sam Horn
• We tend to confuse a clear view with a short distance - Jim Barksdale
• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. —ORSON WELLES
• “Anyone who is threatened and is forced by necessity either to act or to suffer becomes a very dangerous man to the prince. - Machiavelli
• Culture eats strategy - Peter Drucker
• Never interrupt an enemy making a mistake.- Napoleon
• To succeed ‘you must study the endgame before everything else.’” - “Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca
• Pessimists need a kick in the can’ts
• Nothing is easy for the unwilling 
• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” - Chuang-Tzu
• I am an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe 
• Assume positive intent-Daniel pink
• If you go out one day and you meet an asshole-that guy is an asshole. However, if you go out and everyone’s an asshole-you’re the asshole.
• We all die republicans 
• Doubt the doubt
• One person's ceiling is another person's floor
• Stupid people make you look smart only when you're being compared to stupid people
• The church in America is convinced but not converted
• All saints have a past and all sinners have a future
• Listen and connect with people, don’t perform for them.-Ryan Holiday
• A life that reflects Christ pleases God
• If you’re not the lead dog, the view’s the same.
• Adding time to a decision won’t make you more confident-grant cardone 
• Are you taking over or are you taking orders? Are you going backwards or are you going forwards?-Joe Strummer of the Clash
• You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything-John Maxwell 
• Become the lighthouse not the tugboat
• Never let the same person waste your time twice
• “The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer.” - Terence McKenna
• The road to success is always under construction
• I’m too short for my weight
• Being slow is usually more expensive than being wrong - Dan Pink
• We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. -Ana?s Nin
• The giant in front of you is NEVER bigger than the God inside of you
• Don’t build your online home on rented land.