An excuse is a reason stuffed with a lie. The problem with excuses is that as long as we hold on to them, we will not see change.

It's very easy to find fault with ourselves and think we need to be like someone else. Be who you are and don't try to be a copy!

It was a great day of victory for me when I finally realized that God only wanted me to be me, that He had created me with His own hand in my mother's womb, that I was not a mistake, and that I could stand before Him as an individual without needing to compare myself with others. The

The problem comes when we try to take the gift God has given us and use it to do what someone else is doing instead of developing our own potential.

Too many commitments will keep us from developing our potential. Letting other people control us will keep us from developing our potential. Not knowing how to say no will keep us from developing our potential. Getting overly involved in someone else's goals and vision or becoming entangled in someone else's problems instead of keeping our eyes on our own goals will keep us from fulfilling our potential.

We need to be like the ant. We need to be the kind of people who are self-motivated and self-disciplined, those who do what is right because it is right, not because someone may be looking or because someone is making us do it.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." CHAPTER XVI From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicite.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.