PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT
David Rice Atchison -- Forget what the history books say. The 12th president of the United States was David Rice Atchison, a man so obscure that...
PRESSURE
PRESSURE
Who was United States Senator Edmund G. Ross of Kansas? I suppose you could call him a "Mr. Nobody." No law bears his name. Not a single list of ...
PRESUMPTION
PRESUMPTION
During the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War, Union general John Sedgwick was inspecting his troops. At one point he came to a parapet...
PRETENSE
PRETENSE
Cleveland Amory tells this story about Judge John Lowell of Boston. One morning the judge was at breakfast, his face hidden behind the morning pa...
PREVENTION
PREVENTION
A heavy rain had been falling as a man drove down a lonely road. As he rounded a curve, he saw an old farmer surveying the ruins of his barn. T...
PRIDE
PRIDE
(see also HUMILITY)
Golf immortal Arnold Palmer recalls a lesson about overconfidence:
It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters ...
PRINCIPLE
PRINCIPLE
What are you willing to do for $10,000,000? Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following:
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PRIORITIES
PRIORITIES
In recent years a head coach divorced his wife of 26 years when he left coaching a college team to become head coach in the National Football L...
PRISON
PRISON
Not long after a wealthy contractor had finished building the Tombs prison in New York, he was found guilty of forgery and sentenced to several yea...
PRIVATE WORLD
PRIVATE WORLD
Out in front of us is the drama of men and of nations, seething, struggling, laboring, dying...but within the silences of the souls of men a...
PRIZE
PRIZE
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
Henry Mitchel in Washington Post, Reader's Digest, May 1980...
PROBLEMS
PROBLEMS
Every problem is an opportunity to prove God's power. Every day we encounter countless golden opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insurm...
PROBLEM SOLVING
PROBLEM SOLVING
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow, Eating Problems for Breakfas...
PROCESS
PROCESS
One day in the library at the University of Montana, I saw the following bit of graffiti: "E = MC2 -- Albert Einstein."
And directly...
PROCRASTINATION
PROCRASTINATION
Friends of George Burns have always kidded him about his singing. Burns, a master of self-deprecating humor, decided to take advantage of ...
PROFIT
PROFIT
A small businessman, who had emigrated to this country, kept his accounts payable in a cigar box, his accounts receivable on a spindle, and his cas...
PROGRESS
PROGRESS
(see also GROWTH and MATURITY)
When Pablo Casals reached 95, a young reported threw him a question: \"Mr. Casals, you are 95 and the greate...
PROMISE
PROMISE
A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
Thomas Fuller.
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PROMISES, God's
PROMISES, God's
A promise from God is a statement we can depend on with absolute confidence. Here are 12 promises for the Christian to claim.
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PROMOTION
PROMOTION
Noting that a business acquaintance who seemed to have only average abilities had moved up rapidly in his company to become a vice president, I ...