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“In fact, stories of people of achievement often show that obstacles and struggles are the stepping stones to success”.
―Michal Stawicki
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
―Nicholas M. Butler
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual”.
―Vince Lombardi
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
―Albert Einstein
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt
“With your entire focus on your goal, you will reach levels of achievement that you never thought possible.”
―Catherine Pulsifer
“It is quite okay for you to acknowledge other people as positive influences in your life and let their achievements inspire you.”
―Luke Gregory
“Achieving big goals requires you to become a bigger person. You must develop new habits, abilities, skills, and attitudes. You must stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be forever stretched”.
―Vic Johnson
“High achievers and top performers certainly aren’t average, but they definitely aren’t superhuman – even if you currently see them that way”.
―David Fairweather, Winning Mindset
“I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it”.
―Michael Jordan
“But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement”.
―Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
―Joe Abercrombie
“You need to battle with fear of failure to achieve your goals in life.”
―Invajy
“The important thing is to find your true source of inspiration and to remain focused in the achievement of your goals”.
―Sara Wellington
“I profoundly believe that there is always more than one ‘right way’ to achieve great results”.
―Robyn Pearce
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
―Harry S. Truman
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
―Helen Keller
“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”
―Wait Disney
“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents – start charging for it.”
―Kim Garst
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
―John Wooden
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
―David Brinkley
“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”
―Vaibhav Shah
“Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.”
―George Alexiou
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.”
―Matt Fox
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
―Bruce Feirstein
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.”
―Lolly Daskal
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
―Napoleon Hill
“If you believe that achievement ends with retirement, you will slowly fade away. First of all, keeping the mind active is one way to prolong your life and to enjoy life to its fullest for as long as possible.”
―Byron Pulsifer
“In fact, stories of people of achievement often show that obstacles and struggles are the stepping stones to success”.
―Michal Stawicki
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
―Nicholas M. Butler
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual”.
―Vince Lombardi
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
―Albert Einstein
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt
“With your entire focus on your goal, you will reach levels of achievement that you never thought possible.”
―Catherine Pulsifer
“It is quite okay for you to acknowledge other people as positive influences in your life and let their achievements inspire you.”
―Luke Gregory
“Achieving big goals requires you to become a bigger person. You must develop new habits, abilities, skills, and attitudes. You must stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be forever stretched”.
―Vic Johnson
“High achievers and top performers certainly aren’t average, but they definitely aren’t superhuman – even if you currently see them that way”.
―David Fairweather, Winning Mindset
“I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it”.
―Michael Jordan
“But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement”.
―Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
―Joe Abercrombie
“You need to battle with fear of failure to achieve your goals in life.”
―Invajy
“The important thing is to find your true source of inspiration and to remain focused in the achievement of your goals”.
―Sara Wellington
“I profoundly believe that there is always more than one ‘right way’ to achieve great results”.
―Robyn Pearce
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
―Harry S. Truman
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
―Helen Keller
“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”
―Wait Disney
“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents – start charging for it.”
―Kim Garst
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
―John Wooden
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
―David Brinkley
“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”
―Vaibhav Shah
“Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.”
―George Alexiou
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.”
―Matt Fox
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
―Bruce Feirstein
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.”
―Lolly Daskal
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
―Napoleon Hill
“If you believe that achievement ends with retirement, you will slowly fade away. First of all, keeping the mind active is one way to prolong your life and to enjoy life to its fullest for as long as possible.”
―Byron Pulsifer
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame”.
―Benjamin Franklin
“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
―Aristotle
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind”.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
―Joe Klaas
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
―Chinese Proverb
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
―Mark Twain
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
―George Eliot
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.”
―William Arthur Ward
“Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you”.
―Joel Osteen
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
―Phyllis Diller
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”
―Robert G. Ingersoll
“Whether we like to admit it or not, those of us who struggle with an unforgiving heart also carry around a tremendous amount of anger.”
―Brian Jones
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
―Malcolm X
“To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself.”
―Buddha
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself”.
―Douglas Horton
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
―Maya Angelou
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned”.
―Buddha
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.”
―Stephen Richards
“There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”
―Wayne Dyer
“Anger glances in the breasts of wise men; but rests in the bosom of fools”.
―Wellins Calcott
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
―Ambrose Bierce
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
―Thich Nhat Hanh
“Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One”.
―Benjamin Franklin
“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it… Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.”
―Bohdi Sanders
“The best fighter is never angry.”
―Lao Tzu
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance”.
―Anthony de Mello
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness”.
―James Thurber
“Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others”.
―Deepak Chopra
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate”.
―Carl Jung
“In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion”.
―Kofi Annan
“To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do”.
―Vironika Tugaleva.
“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness”.
―Anthony de Mello
“Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you”.
―Deepak Chopra
“An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans”.
―Haile Selassie
“Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it”.
―Michael B. Kitson
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness”.
―Lao Tzu
“It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation”.
―Paulo Freire
“Look outside and you will see yourself. Look inside and you will find yourself.”
―Drew Gerald
“In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.”
―Stephen Covey
“Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.”
―Debbie Ford
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
―Carl Jung
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
―Nathaniel Branden
“Awareness allows us to get outside of our mind and observe it in action.”
―Dan Brule
“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
―Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.”
―Osho
“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”
―Billie Jean King
“Raise your awareness and share your uniqueness to the world”.
―Amit Ray
“As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.”
―William Schutz
“With rebellion, awareness is born.”
―Albert Camus
“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it”.
―Anthony De Mello
“Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them.”
―Daniel Chidiac
“Once you become aware of what you are capable of achieving, you won’t settle for mediocrity.”
―ATGW
“Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.”
―Frederick Lenz
“Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom…The power to choose, to respond, to change”.
― Stephen Covey
“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
—Arthur Somers Roche
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
—Walter Anderson
“To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left.”
―Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
“You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.”
—Wayne Dyer
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
—Plato
“When anxiety pervades your mind with pessimism, hold on to optimism.”
―glonins.com
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”
—Natalie Goldberg
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
—Epictetus
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
—Charles Spurgeon
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
― Anais Nin
“How much pain has cost us the evils which have never happened.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
—Deepak Chopra
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on colour instead of taste.”
―John Green
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it”.
―Confucius
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express”.
―Francis Bacon
“To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.”
—Ellen Degeneres
“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years”.
―Audrey Hepburn
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams”.
―Ashley Smith
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
—Khalil Gibran
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty”.
―David Hume
“Beauty awakens the soul to act”.
―Dante Alighieri
“Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are”.
―Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears”.
―Anne Roiphe
“Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a labourer’s hand”.
―Khalil Gibran
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness”.
―Leo Tolstoy
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting”.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it”.
―Roger Scruton
“When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.”
—Steve Goodier
“Outer beauty turns the head, but inner beauty turns the heart.”
—Helen J. Russell
“Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.”
—Kate Angell
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life”.
―Mark Twain
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality”.
―Charles Lamb
“Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman’s face.”
—Alyscia Cunningham
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains”.
―Anne Frank
“What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”
—Jess C. Scott
“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.”
—Conrad Hall
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
—John Lennon
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
―Robert F. Kennedy
“Challenge everything, assume nothing.”
—Sergio Zyman
“The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”
—Marianne Williamson
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.”
―China Miéville, King Rat
“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
―Barack Obama
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”
―Isaac Asimov
“Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self-imposed limits.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never-ending improvement.”
—Tony Robbins
“Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.”
—Robin S. Sharma
“The hard way is the best way because there will be no peace without ‘war’”.
―glonins.com
“The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.”
―Steve Maraboli,
“Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.”
—Marianne Williamson
“I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!”
—Eric Thomas
“The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.”
— Brian Tracy
“Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them”.
―John C. Maxwell
“It’s when the discomfort strikes that they realise a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all”.
―Chrissie Wellington
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr
“It’s always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.”
—Joel Osteen
“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”
—Carol S. Dweck
“One of the downsides of challenges is that we waste our time regretting the mistakes of the previous year, feeling guilty of this year’s decisions and stressing ourselves about the coming year”.
―glonins.com
“Life’s easy when you live it the hard way… and hard if you try to live it the easy way”.
―Dave Kekich
“Close scrutiny will show that most ‘crisis situations’ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are”.
―Maxwell Maltz
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one a peace of mind. In reality, nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun”.
― Jon Krakauer
“None of us is as smart as all of us”.
―Japanese proverb
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships”.
―Michael Jordan
“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
―Amy Poehler
“Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.”
―Mike Rutherford
“I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”
―Golda Meir
“The company owner doesn’t need to win. The best idea does.”
― John C. Maxwell
“The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a sure-fire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.”
― Brett Harris
“Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.”
―Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
“Our method was to develop integrated products, and that meant our process had to be integrated and collaborative”
―Steve Jobs
“If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
―Ryunosuke Satoro
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
―Henry Ford
“Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath
“When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.”
―Steven Spielberg
“We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.”
―Al Gore
“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”
—Farrah Gray
“Comfort zone makes one belong to the group of those who watch things happen; negative mind-set categorises one in the group of those who wonder what happens while Positive attitude places one at par with those who make things happen”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“No one likes to move beyond their comfort zone, but as the saying goes, that’s where the magic happens. It’s where we grow, learn, and develop in a way that expands our horizons beyond what we thought was possible.”
―Andy Molinsky
“As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”
―Robin S. Sharma
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“The hardest thing to do is leaving your comfort zone. But you have to let go of the life you’re familiar with and take the risk to live the life you dream about.”
―T. Arigo
“We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.”
―Ray Bennett
“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”
―Jillian Michaels
“The only thing that is stopping you from where you are to where you want to go is your comfort zone.”
―Dhaval Gaudier
“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.”
―Dan Stevens
“The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone”.
―Karen Salmansohn
“I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal, is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined.”
―Mark Burnett
“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of your comfort zone is your biggest challenge.”
―Manoj Arora
“A ship is always safe at the shore-but that is not what it is built for.”
―Albert Einstein
“Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.”
―Kyra Davis
“I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.”
— Joel Osteen
“If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness”.
―Les Brown
“Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.”
―Ray Lewis
“Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end…because in the end, it shows you a whole new world.”
―Manoj Arora
“Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.”
―Billy Cox
“Resistance to change is very much governed by your comfort zone. Just because something is comfortable does not for a moment mean it’s what you want, or even good for you for that matter.”
―Robin H-C
“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.”
―Adam Braun
“Face the fear, even if it’s only a tiptoe outside of your comfort zone instead of a leap. Progress is progress.”
―Annette White
“Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end…because in the end, it shows you a whole new world !! Make an attempt.”
―Manoj Arora
“Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort”.
―Paul J. Meyer
“If you can’t give meaning to your job, you’ll always find it exhausting and if you can’t transform your job into work, you’ll continue to live in the past”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality”.
―Abraham Lincoln
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers”.
―Les Brown
“Motivation is what gets you started. Commitment is what keeps you going”.
―Jim Rohn
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek”.
―Mario Andretti
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort”.
―Paul J. Meyer
“Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you”.
―Bill Cosby
“Commitment is an act, not a word”.
―Jean-Paul Sartre
“Commitment allows you to focus intently on a few highly important goals and achieve a greater degree of success than you otherwise would”.
―Mark Manson
“Most people fail not because of a lack of desire but because of a lack of commitment”.
―Vince Lombardi
“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the right stuff to turn our dream into reality”.
―James Womack
“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through”.
―Zig Ziglar
“Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy”.
―Bill Blackman
“Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations”.
―Bob Beauprez
“Things never happen by accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream”.
―Oscar de la Renta
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment”.
―Anthony Robbins
“You don’t know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them”.
―Carol S. Dweck
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour”.
―Vince Lombardi
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans”.
―Peter F. Drucker
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
—William S. Burroughs
“If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.”
—Henry Ford
“Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery”.
―Steve Maraboli
“I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up”.
―Robyn Davidson
“True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness”.
―Adyashanti
“In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially conditioned mind”.
―Frank M. Wanderer
“You discover that a “bored person” is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not “yours,” not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we are little. We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools. We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what’s not possible”.
―Wayne Dyer
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them”.
―Aldous Huxley
“Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life”.
―Cheri Huber
“We must unlearn what we have learned because a conditioned mind cannot comprehend the infinite”.
―Vivek Verma
“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalised sense of self that is conditioned by the past”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things”.
―Thich Nhat Hanh
“What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones”.
―Max Lerner
“A quiet mind is one that is willing to speak the truth that is felt internally. It is a mind that has not yet been conditioned to accept a reality that is being imposed upon it by well-meaning adults and cultural and religious teachings”.
―Wayne Dyer
“It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?”
―Eckhart Tolle
“We are like bears pacing in a cage, even if the cage is removed, we keep pacing in the same timid limits. We are afraid to get out”.
―Anthony de Mello
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery than that of the chains of mental slavery”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“Imprisonment of the mind is the worst imprisonment of all. It is without walls, without bars, without chains, without keys. It is the most binding, the most self-imposing and self-inflicting. It is blind, it is enslaving, and it has the most willing victim”.
―M. L. Gutierrez
“Man is born free but everywhere in chains”.
―Jean-Jacques Rousseau (political philosopher)
“The subjective mind vis a vis knowledge has never made relatively positive progress in the journey towards the liberation of the human mind”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“A victim of the rules you live by.”
―Jenny Holzer
“It’s the closed mind that seals off creative solutions, keeps us at the point we’re in life, where we’ve been, and will continue to be. If we continue to entertain the closed mind, we’ll find ourselves eliminating any possibility for new opportunities’”.
― B.S.O kpechi
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
―William Faulkner
“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success”.
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”.
―Mark Twain
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“It’s the positive attitudes you hold onto in your life that will direct your actions against negative situations. Therefore, do not dwell on a negative mindset so that you’ll achieve your purpose in life.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”.
―Nelson Mandela
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
―Lao Tzu
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened”.
―Billy Graham
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”.
―T. S. Eliot
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
—Anaïs Nin
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
―Winston S. Churchill
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
―E.E. Cummings
“The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage.”
—Thucydides
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
―Maya Angelou
“The opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”
—Jim Hightower
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
―Erica Jong
“You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know.”
—Brittany Candau
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
―Peter F. Drucker
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
—Amelia Earhart
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen”.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers”.
―Plato
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be”.
―Isaac Asimov
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change direction overnight.”
―Jim Rohn
“All of us start from zero. We take the right decision and become a hero”.
―Govinda
“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow.”
―Caroline Myss
“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.”
―Stephen Covey
“Nobody’s life is ever all balanced. It’s a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day”.
―Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful…”
―José N. Harris
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
―Tony Robbins
“It is not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
―Roy Disney
“A major life decision is never a choice but rather a realization that the decision has already been made.”
―Doug Cooper
“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
―Paulo Coelho
“A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public opinion.”
―Chinese Proverb
“Every decision brings with it some good, some bad, some lessons, and some luck. The only thing that’s for sure is that indecision steals many years from many people who wind up wishing they’d just had the courage to leap.”
―Doe Zantamata
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”.
―Tony Robbins
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.”
—C.S. Lewis
“We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us.”
—Ken Levine
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
―Barbara Kingsolver
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”
―Fiona Apple
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say, ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say, ‘My heart is broken.’
―C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
“Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart”.
―William C. Hannan
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.”
—Dwayne Johnson
“That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.”
―Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
“Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.”
—Ginger Zee
“It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.”
―Matt Haig
“Depression is being colourblind and constantly told how colourful the world is.”
—Atticus poetry
“Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
―Stephen Fry
“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”
―Pete Wentz
“Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find.”
—Lady Gaga
“Almost everyone is overconfident—except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.”
―Joseph T. Hallinan
“A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.”
—Lilly Singh
“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.”
—Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.”
—Marilyn Monroe
“Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.”
—Susan Polis Schutz
“I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.”
—Sophie Turner
“People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.”
—Dan Reynolds
“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that”.
―Robin Williams
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”
―Sonia Johnson
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work”.
―Colin Powell
“A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.”
―Catherine Pulsifer
“People with a strong will power will always have the bigger picture in mind. They will be able to forgo small pleasures in order to help attain bigger goals.”
―Brian Adams
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough”.
―Og Mandino
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
―Dan Gable
“If the only thing you can do is to crawl, do so and believe that one day you’ll walk; if you happen to walk, don’t stop there, take a step forward to run; if you eventually run, look towards the eagle and one day you’ll soar above the sky and beyond.”
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination”.
―Tommy Lasorda
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
―George Lorimer
“Most people fail because they do not have determination and perseverance. Extraordinary people are determined and persevere that is what makes them extraordinary.”
―Catherine Pulsifer
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
―William Blake
“Determination is only available to those who persevere and have the attitude of never giving up just because one thing did not work.”
―Byron Pulsifer
“You need to develop the resilience and determination to tackle the hard work of leadership. You need personal resolve and tenacity to rise above the daily pressures and lead your organisation into the future.”
―Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract
“When someone tells me “No,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”
―Karen E. Quinones Miller
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
―Vince Lombardi
“It takes determination to see a dream come to pass. The question is not will you start, but will you finish”.
―Joel Osteen
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
―Mario Andretti
“It is your determination and persistence that will make you a successful person”.
―Kenneth J Hutchins
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On!’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
―Calvin Coolidge
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
―John F. Kennedy
“A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.”
―Sam Brownback
“Too many of us still believe our differences define us.”
―John Lewis
“Inclusivity means not ‘just we’re allowed to be there,’ but we are valued. I’ve always said: smart teams will do amazing things, but truly diverse teams will do impossible things”.
―Claudia Brind-Woody
“Before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish.”
―Albert Einstein
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Diversity is about all of us and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together”.
―Jacqueline Woodson
“The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection”.
―Thomas Berry
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity, there is beauty, and there is strength”.
―Maya Angelou
“We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.”
―Roger Wilkins
“We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.”
―Antonio Guterres
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We have a very diverse environment and a very inclusive culture, and those characteristics got us through the tough times. Diversity generated a better strategy, better risk management, better debates, and better outcomes”.
―Alan Joyce
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
―Maya Angelou
“The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity – that it’s this or maybe that – you have just one large statement; it is this.”
―Chinua Achebe
“You don’t have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.”
―Don Lemon
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A lot of different flowers make a bouquet”.
―Islamic Proverb
“What we have to do… is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”
―Hillary Clinton
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
―Virginia Satir
“We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring”.
―Catherine Pulsifer
“Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the centre of what we do”.
―Marco Bizzarri
“What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us”
―Edward Kennedy
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences”.
―Audre Lorde
“But little did the infant dream That all the treasures of the world were by And that himself was so the cream And crown of all that roundabout did lie”.
―Thomas Traheme
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
―Oscar Wilde
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
―Vincent Willem van Gogh
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.”
―Richard Branson
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
―Paulo Coelho
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
―Stephenie Meyer
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
―James Dean
“Follow your dreams, they know the way.”
―Kobe Yamada
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
―Dr. Seuss
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
―Earl Nightingale
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
―Edgar Allan Poe
“Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.”
―Wim Wenders
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
―George Bernard Shaw
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
―C.S. Lewis
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.”
―Dan Peña
“The only dreams that come true are the ones you chase, if you do nothing, you get nothing.”
―Joseph Atser
“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
―Tom Bradley
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”
―Colin Powell
“The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and the willingness to work hard for them.”
―Michelle Obama
“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. You will have to work for it, however.”
―Richard Bach
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
―Jonas Salk
“We will either find a way, or make one!”
―Hannibal
“Remember that we started our lives as strong as we could, grow and change as we learn. Unfortunately, many people, when they begin their career after graduation from college, that growth which started at an exhilarating pace slows down even to a creeping and dreary stagnation”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you”.
―Steve Jobs
“Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.”
—George Washington Carver
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”.
―John Dewey
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”.
―Aristotle
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows”.
―Sydney J. Harris
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow”.
―Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”.
―William Butler Yeats
“I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out”.
―Ellen Ochoa
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
―Clay P. Bedford
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read”.
―Mark Twain
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next”.
―Abraham Lincoln
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
―Henry B. Adams
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
―Nelson Mandela
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
―Chinese Proverb
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
―B.B. King
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
―Chinese Proverb
“What sculpture is to a block of marble; education is to the human soul.”
―Joseph Addison
“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
―Peter Brougham
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
―Brigham Young
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
―Benjamin Franklin
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change”.
―Carl Rogers
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives”.
―Robert M. Hutchins
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.”
―Carl Rogers
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”.
―Will Durant
“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.”
―Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence”.
―Robert Frost
“If education is expensive, will you prefer to wallow in ignorance and abandon the much-desired holistic education?”
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
―Malcolm X
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army”.
―Edward Everett
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
―Epictetus
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
―Plato
“Educating the mind towards the reality of life is as difficult as piercing through the mental slavery”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
―Maimonides
“Dissolve your ego before it dissolves yourself.”
―Maxime Lagacé.
“Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems”.
―Paramahansa Yogananda
“When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it’s absurd. But it’s tragic at the same time”.
―Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Not everything is about you,”
―Clary said furiously
“Possibly,” Jace said, “but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”
―Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“We must go beyond the constant clamour of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul”.
―Deepak Chopra
“Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it”.
―Colin Powell
“You must practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head. Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote. It’s easy to be emotionally invested and infatuated with your own work. Any and every narcissist can do that. What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.”
―Ryan Holiday
“Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time”.
―Nikki Sixx
“The ego is not master in its own house”.
―Sigmund Freud
“Ego is the enemy- giving us wicked feedback, disconnected from reality. It’s defensive, precisely when we cannot afford to be defensive. It blocks us from improving by telling us that we don’t need to improve. Then we wonder why we don’t get the results we want, why others are better and why their success is more lasting.”
―Ryan Holiday
“The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders’ growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing”.
―Ken Blanchard
“Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“What I’ve found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion”.
―Ryan Holiday
“Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution”.
―Robert H. Schuller
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
―Rainer Maria Rilke
“Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title”.
―Robin S. Sharma
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
―Eckhart Tolle
“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention”.
―Alan Watts
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Ego is its own worst enemy. It hurts the ones we love too. Our families and friends suffer for it. So do our customers, fans, and clients. A critic of napoleon nailed it when remarking: ‘He [Napoleon] despises the nation whose applause he seeks.’ He couldn’t help but see the French people as pieces to be manipulated, people he had to be better than, people who, unless they were totally, unconditionally supportive of him, were against him.”
―Ryan Holiday
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”.
―William Blake
“Destroy your illusions so you can see reality. Destroy your fears so you can take risks. Destroy your ego so you can see life.”
―Maxime Lagacé
“Having the sense of ‘free will’ shouldn’t make us behave instinctively, thereby losing the sense of deliberation and reflection”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
―Robert Frost
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you”.
—C. S. LEWIS
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
—Roy T. Bennett
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” —Paulo Coelho
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
—Helen Keller
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
—Paulo Coelho
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
—Winston Churchill
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
―J.K. Rowling
“I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
—Neal Shusterman
“Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
―Michael Jordan
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
—Coco Chanel
“Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.”
―Michelle Obama
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
—Henry Ford
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
―Confucius
“It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
—Ellen DeGeneres
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
—C.S. Lewis
“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
―Malcolm X
“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
—Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
—Denis Waitley
“Falling down doesn’t make one a failure, it’s your ability to rise that determines the next dimension”.
― B.S.O. Kpechi
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
—Napoleon Hill
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
―Arianna Huffington
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
—Johnny Cash
“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”
―Eloise Ristad
“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
—Zig Ziglar
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
—Ken Robinson
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
―Thomas Edison
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.”
—J.K. Rowling
“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”
—Gena Showalter
“It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.”
―Lupita Nyong’o
“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
—Richard Yates
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
―Bill Gates
“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be”
—John Wooden
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
―John F. Kennedy
“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
―C.R. Strahan
“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
―Sir. Francis Bacon
“If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.”
―Mother Teresa
“When you forgive, you save yourself from the fire of hatred”.
―Adeep
“The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.”
―Louise Hay
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you”.
―Lewis B. Smedes
“Take forgiveness slowly. Don’t blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.”
―Yoko Ono
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
―Nelson Mandela
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
―John F. Kennedy
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”.
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time, they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them”.
―Oscar Wilde
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
―Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget”.
―Thomas Szasz
“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone”.
―Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Forgiveness is the best revenge”.
–Imam Ali
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
―Corrie Ten Boom
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness”.
―Marianne Williamson
“I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself”.
–T.D. Jakes
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
―Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
―Catherine Ponder
“Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.”
―Pope John Paul II
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness”.
―Josh Billings
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future”.
―Bernard Meltzer
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers”.
–Robert Quillen
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself”
―Publilius Syrus
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
―Robert Jordan
“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”
―Maria Edgeworth
“If it feels good, do it, and if it doesn’t, don’t do it.”
―Martin Meadows
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
―Bernard M. Baruch
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”.
―Vicktor Emil Frankl
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves”.
―Abraham Lincoln
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
―Charlotte Bronte
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life”.
―Bob Marley
“From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
―Aung San Suu Kyi
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
―Benjamin Franklin
“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
―Peter Marshall
“A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom”.
―Malcolm X
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
―George Washington
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.
―George Orwell
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
―William Faulkner
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.”
―Albert Einstein
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind”.
―Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
―Herbert Hoover
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it”.
―George Bernard Shaw
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
―Nelson Mandela
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”.
―Marcel Proust
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
—Muhammad Ali
“If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship.”
―Steve Maraboli
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
—Thomas J. Watson
“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship”.
―Saint Francis de Sales
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
—Elisabeth Foley
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
—Anais Nin
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
—Tennessee Williams
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
—Carl W. Buechner
“A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out”.
―Gary Moore
“It’s not that those diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds”.
―Gina Barreca
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over”.
―Octavia Butler
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
—Dr. Seuss
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you”.
―Misty Copeland
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met”.
―William Butler Yeats
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun”.
―Charles R. Swindoll
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing”.
―Baltasar Gracian
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
—Amy Poehler
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
—Audrey Hepburn
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand”.
―Henri Nouwen
“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity”.
―Ulysses S. Grant
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth”.
―Charles Darwin
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief”.
―Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed”.
―Khalil Gibran
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
—Walter Winchell
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely”.
―Pam Brown
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
—Oprah Winfrey
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”.
―Helen Keller
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood”.
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.”
—Andrew Carnegie
“Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal or ideal.”
—Earl Nightingale
“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfilment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them”.
―Jack Canfield
“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.”
―Robery H. Schuller
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”
—Bill Copeland
“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”
—Michael Phelps
“It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.”
―Cesar Millan
“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you”.
―Les Brown
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”.
―Zig Ziglar
“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.”
―Les Brown
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
―sylvia Plath
“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”
—Ted Turner
“You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life”.
―H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“I believe in the saying, ‘If you aim at nothing, you’re going to hit nothing.’ So, if you don’t set goals, then you have nowhere to go”.
―Taylor Lautner
“Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.”
―LL Cool J
“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.”
―Norman Vincent Peale
“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
—Benjamin E. Mays
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.”
―Shiv Khera
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
―Confucius
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
―Albert Einstein
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open”.
―John Barrymore
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
—Dalai Lama
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
―Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
―Jonathan Safran Foer
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
—Bertrand Russell
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
―Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
―Albert Camus
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
―Marcel Proust
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
―George Burns
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
—Will Smith
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
—John Lennon
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable”.
—Clare Boothe Luce
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
—Stephen King
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”.
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
—Seneca
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
—Soren Kierkegaard
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature”.
—Marcus Aurelius
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
—Henry Ford
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
—Steve Jobs
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
—Mae West
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it”.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere”.
—Agnes Repplier
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things”.
—Henry Ward Beecher
“Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.”
—J.M. Barrie
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels”.
―Saint Augustine
“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning”.
―Gza
“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self”.
―Henri Frederic Amiel
“If you aren’t humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you”.
―Anand Mahindra
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
―Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers”.
―Swami Sivananda
“Who is humbler? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
―Carl Sagan
“There’s no need to show off when you know who you are”.
―Maxime Lagacé
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
―Albert Einstein
“True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility”.
―Bryant H. McGill
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
―Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit”.
―Rudolf Steiner
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
―Ernest Hemingway
“A great man is always willing to be little”.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
―Winston S. Churchill
“Humility isn’t denying your strengths; it’s being honest about your weaknesses”.
―Rick Warren
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left”.
―Oscar Levant
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will”.
–Zig Ziglar
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
―Criss Jami
“Some ask if lowering one’s pride is conceding defeat. I think not. Humility is a sign of inner strength and wisdom”.
―Haemin Sunim
“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility”.
–T. S. Eliot
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”.
―Miyamoto Musashi
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real”.
―Thomas Merton
“A humble person is more likely to be self-confident… a person with real humility knows how much they are loved”.
―Cornelius Plantinga
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up”.
―Jesse Jackson
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
―Epictetus
“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”.
—Michel de Montaigne
“But little did the infant dream that all the treasures of the world were by and that himself was so the cream And crown of all that roundabout did lie.”
—Thomas Traheme
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
―Aldous Huxley
“The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance – the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learns the fundamental truths of life and moves up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her ignorance goes away and becomes open/free”.
—Thomas Vazhakunnathu
“Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer”.
—Sir Walter Scot
“It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
―Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
―George Bernard Shaw
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have”.
—James Baldwin
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance”.
—Benjamin Franklin
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives”.
—James Madison
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
―Mark Twain
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
―G.K. Chesterton
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
―Walter Cronkite
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
―Benjamin Franklin
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
―Charles Darwin
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
―G.K. Chesterton
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”
―Daniel J. Boorstin
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly”.
—Richard Bach
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
―Harlan Ellison
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
―Isaac Asimov
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realise the extent of your own ignorance”.
—Thomas Sowell
“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education”.
—Stephen Covey
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
—William Shakespeare
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
—Confucius
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
—Thomas Paine
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
—George Eliot
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
—Confucius
“Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never heard of.”
—Ralph B. Perry
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give – the ability to influence”.
—Shannon L. Alder
“It is more important to influence people than to impress them”.
—Adrian Rogers
“The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn”.
—Napoleon Hill
“A parent gives life, but as a parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”.
—Henry Adams
“Maternal love is perhaps the most powerful, positive influence on a son’s development and life. Don’t let anybody convince you that you are irrelevant in your son’s life or that you need to separate from him prematurely”.
—Cheri Fuller
“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life”.
—Margot Asquith
“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations”.
—Beatrix Potter
“The books that influence the world are those that it has not read”.
—G.K. Chesterton
“The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavouring to instil ready-made opinions into his head”.
—Leslie Stephen
“A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives”.
—Jackie Robinson
“The purpose of influence is to ‘speak up’ for those who have no influence. It’s not about you”.
—Rick Warren
“Whether we like it or not, the reality is that our decisions are influenced by a whole host of factors, many of which lay beyond our conscious awareness and control”.
—Nathalie Nahai
“Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room; when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere”.
—TemitOpe Ibrahim
“The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor”.
—Orison Swett Marden
“Leadership calls for changing people’s behaviour. Influencers are those leaders who understand how to create rapid, profound, and sustainable behaviour change”.
—Joseph Grenny
“Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach”.
—David McKay
“Nothing that occurred in your past can have any influence over you except the influence that you allow it to have”.
—Brian Tracy
“In other words, biology deals the cards, but social conditions dictate how the game is played”.
—Ted Gioia
“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority”.
—Ken Blanchard
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why”.
—Stephen King
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us”.
—Wilma Rudolph
“Don’t be a pepper on the eyes of people; Rather be the salt on their tongue and make a difference that influences their sense of belonging to the earth”.
—Israelmore Ayivor
“Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state”.
—Max Weber
“Leadership isn’t about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.”
―Onyi Anyado
“Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole”.
—Bernard Law Montgomery
“You don’t have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me”.
—Scott Adams
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires”.
—Roy T. Bennett
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power”.
—Henry George
“When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens”.
—Michael Badnarik
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing”.
—Albert Schweitzer
“Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature”.
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Your minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you”.
—Deepak Chopra
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another”.
—Napoleon Hill
“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about”.
—Tiger Woods
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
―Pierce Brown
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
―Charles Bukowski
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
―Charles-Louis de Secondat
“Talking about justice, doing injustice is indeed unfair conduct and hypocrisy.”
―Ehsan Sehgal
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
―Ernesto Che Guevara
“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail but too big to be held accountable.”
―Joseph E. Stiglitz
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
―Thomas Jefferson
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
―Voltaire
“So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we’ve banished others from our group and therefore our circle of concern.”
―Dalai Lama XIV
“Injustice on one life is injustice on all lives.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”
―Democritus
“There is no justice to be had in wanton blind destruction, just more injustice.”
―C.A.A. Savastano
“The trouble was, no one thought about the victims anymore. It was all about human rights for the criminal. Injustice was the name of the game now.”
―Sibel Hodge
“When your bones ignite and your blood boils at the sight of misery, injustice, and hate, that’s when you are truly born as a human.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?”
―Michael Connelly
“Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder.”
―Rohinton Mistry
“People don’t always get what they deserve in this world.”
―Lemony Snicket
“Change can only be brought about when we have the courage to speak about the injustices we see.”
―Erin Thorp
“And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste.”
―Jonathan Franzen
“The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.”
―Sunday Adelaja
“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
―George Carlin
“Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”
―Bryant McGill
“I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”
―Hugo Claus
“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
―Martha Gellhorn
“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
―E.A. Bucchianeri
“Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone.”
―Suzy Kassem
“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonour and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.”
―William Faulkner
“Justice doesn’t mean the absence of injustice; it means the presence of the determination to stand up to injustice.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
―Robert F. Kennedy
“It takes great courage to open one’s heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world”.
―Vincent A. Gallagher
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
―Elie Wiesel
“A body at rest stays at rest, a body in motion stays in motion unless it is acted upon by an external force.”
—Isaac Newton
“Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way”.
—Tom Freston
“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance”.
—Gary Hamel
“What is the calculus of innovation? The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: Knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives economic growth”.
—William Brody
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate”.
—Margaret Heffernan
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable”.
—William Pollard
“Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go”.
—Steven Jeffes
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse”.
—Winston Churchill
“Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs”.
—Joe Biden
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things”.
—Theodore Levitt
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.”
—Albert Einstein
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
—Steve Jobs
“There’s a way to do it better – find it.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
—William Pollard
“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”
—Charles Kettering
“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
—Dr. Albert, Szent- Györgyi
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.
—Albert Einstein
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
—Arthur C. Clarke
“If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect”.
—Steven Johnson
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
—J.K. Rowling
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
—William Blake
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”.
—Alan Kay
“You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past”.
—Bob Iger
“Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling”.
—Naveen Jain
“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate”.
—Jeff Bezos
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building on the new”.
—Socrates
“If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.“
—Henry Ford
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”.
—Steve Jobs
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.”
—Albert Einstein
“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.”
—Mark Twain
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you”.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us”.
—Joseph Campbell
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”.
—Herman Melville
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”.
—Warren Buffett
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
―Maya Angelou
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all”.
―Walt Disney Company
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant”.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'”
—Audrey Hepburn
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light”.
—Aristotle Onassis
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination”.
—Jimmy Dean
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot”.
—Michael Altshuler
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you”.
—Walt Whitman
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
―Langston Hughes
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
―Paulo Coelho
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve”.
—Mary Kay Ash
“Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell”.
—Amal Clooney
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
―Neil Gaiman
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
―Kurt Vonnegut
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants”.
—Isaac Newton
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles”.
—Jimmy Carter
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not”.
—Oprah Winfrey
“We live with integrity when there is no separation between our feelings and our actions, our thoughts and our words”.
—Human Angels
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office”.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised”.
—Chinua Achebe
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”.
—Bob Marley
“Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love”.
—Don Miguel Ruiz
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home”.
—Confucius
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity”.
—Douglas Adams
“Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage”.
—Jason Reynolds
“We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity”.
—Pedro Capo
“Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect”.
—Stephen Covey
“No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them”.
—William Godwin
“Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect”.
—Thomas S. Monson
“You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside”.
—Alan Cohen
“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins”.
—Edward Kennedy
“Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue”.
—Francis Bacon
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
―Marcus Aurelius
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
―Albert Einstein
“People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach”.
—David A. Bednar
“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined for greatness”.
—Napoleon Hill
“A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come”.
—Denis Waitley
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”.
—Samuel Johnson
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity”.
—W. Clement Stone
“It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one”.
—Zig Ziglar
“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you”.
—Warren Buffett
“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice”.
—Montesquieu
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
―J.R.R. Tolkien
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst”.
—Aristotle
“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for”.
―J.K. Rowling
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
―Elie Wiesel
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals”.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.”
—Bernice King
“Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other — that my liberty depends on you being free too.”
—Barack Obama
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same”.
—Albert Einstein
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
—Angela Davis
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you recognize that your liberation and mine are bound up together, we can walk together.”
—Lilla Watson
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
―Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom”.
—Clarence Darrow
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
―Ernesto Che Guevara
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them”.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary”.
—Reinhold Niebuhr
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
―Theodore Parker
“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.”
—John Lewis
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph”.
—Haile Selassie
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
―Cornel West
“The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law”.
—Robert Kennedy
“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it”.
—Maya Angelou
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice”.
—Baruch Spinoza
Justice delayed is justice denied.
—William E. Gladstone
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge”.
―Daniel J.
“People who fail to understand want to know, but those who know, refuse to understand”.
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power”.
―Lao Tzu
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
―Frederick Douglass
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
—George Bernard Shaw
“Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory”.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
—Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge”.
—Confucius
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
―John Locke
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”.
—Marcus Garvey
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
―Isaac Asimov
“Knowledge with action converts adversity into prosperity.”
—A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
—Margaret Fuller
“That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true knowledge, all else is only a negation of knowledge.”
—Ramakrishna
“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
—Buddha
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”.
—Plato
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
―Anais Nin
“We can have all the knowledge in the world, but it means nothing without the wisdom to know what to do with it.”
—Marie Osmond
“Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.”
—Proverb
“Knowledge has a beginning but no end.”
—Geeta Iyengar
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge”.
—Nicolaus Copernicus
“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”
—Charles Morgan
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
―Socrates
“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
―Hilary Mantel
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”
―Theodore Roosevelt
“I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates”.
—T. S. Eliot
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge”.
―John Naisbitt
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
―Maya Angelou
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
―G.I. Gurdjieff
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
―Voltaire
“Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge”.
—Alice Walker
“The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues”.
—Bruce Lee
“Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon the sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.”
―Vironika Tugaleva
“To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we’ve endured”.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams
“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion”.
—Aldous Huxley
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”
―Lao Tzu
“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”
―Alison Goodman
“Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always”.
—Ramana Maharshi
“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them”.
—Marilyn Ferguson
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”.
—Carl Jung
“The greatest talent you should have is learning how to be yourself.”
―Shiva Negi
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge”.
—Nate Silver
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein
“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement; you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river”.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day,” Raquel said firmly. “And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”
―Claudia Gray
“I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.”
―Charlotte Eriksson
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
―Malcolm Forbes Jr.
“Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself”.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I observe myself and thus understand the others.”
―Lao Tzu
“Without knowledge of self, there is no knowledge of God.”
―John Calvin
“Stop being your own critic. It’s high time to accept all the great things about you.”
―C. JoyBell C.
“I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
―Amy Sedaris
“If knowledge is power, then self-knowledge is empowerment.”
―Pedro Gaspar Fernandes
“We can only ever know ourselves, and by doing so honestly, we come to know the world.”
―Jen Knox
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
―C. JoyBell C.
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
―Albert Einstein
“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who
you are.”
―Lady Gaga
“Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.”
―Margaret Cho
“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom”.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
“One of the greatest tragedies of our time is that a greater percentage of politicians and ‘leaders’ are akin to the cock which produces sperm (idea) that cannot fertilise (build) an egg (a nation)”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.”
—Nelson Mandela
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
—John F. Kennedy
“You can tell a bully from a leader by how they treat people who disagree with them.” — Miles K. Davis
“When you were made a leader, you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”
—Jack Welch
“True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
“Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.”
—Robin S. Sharma
“The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee.”
—Robert K. Greenleaf
“A strong secure leader accepts blame and gives credit. A weak insecure leader gives blame and takes credit.” —John Wooden
“Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right.’”
—Simon Sinek
“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”
—Jim Rohn
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
—Bill Gates
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a moulder of consensus.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
—Theodore M. Hesburgh
“It’s only the visionary and transformational leaders that will gracefully attain the culmination of a distinguished career in politics”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
—Malala Yousafzai
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
—Edith Wharton
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant”.
—Max DePree
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better”.
—Bill Bradley
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves”.
—Lao Tzu
“It is implausible to hook a fish without a bait”, and the politicians’ baits are their empty promises.
―B.S.O kpechi
“The single biggest way to impact an organisation is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organisation that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.”
—John Maxwell
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality”.
—Warren Bennis
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
—John Maxwell
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others”.
—Jack Welch
“One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic, I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.”
—Jacinda Ardern
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing”.
—Tom Peters
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall”.
—Stephen Covey
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency”.
—Arnold Glasow
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
—John Quincy Adams
“When nations are inveterately ruled by the Methuselahs’, generations are perpetually starved of wisdom of the Solomons'”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership”.
—Harvey Firestone
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on”.
—Walter Lippman
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
—Steve Jobs
“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well”.
—Bill Owens
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent”.
—Abraham Lincoln
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special”.
—Bill Taylor
“It’s ironic that in our world today, irrespective of colour, creed or status, those who are envisaged to lead the way are mostly the first to be led astray”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops”.
—John J Pershing
“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit”.
—John Maxwell
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“His mind is at once philosophical and practical. He sees all who go there, hears all they have to say, talks freely with everybody, reads whatever is written to him”.
―Mr. Weed (in reference to Abraham Lincoln)
“Inclusive governance is the quotidian means by which nations are built and elevated for the sake of a better generation”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“The wine that is insufficient for the entire clan should not intoxicate one person.”
―African Proverb
“It is high time we accepted the fact that our fathers are the leaders of yesterday so that we may be accorded the privilege of leaders of today thereafter pave the way for our children as the leaders of tomorrow”.
―glonins.com
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking”.
—Steve Jobs
“Every ability of a human being is innate. Its manifestation is forged in the crucible of hard work”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“The meaning of life is in attaining the highest form of knowledge, which is the Idea (Form) of the Good, from which all good and just things derive utility and value.”
—Plato
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself”.
―Harvey Fierstein
“It’s the joy of living that gives humans the craving for procreation.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”.
—Albert Einstein
“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.”
—John F. Kennedy
“Life is worth living when we are able to exercise our ‘freedom’ and find peace doing what nourishes our soul”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.”
—Ashton Kutcher
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.”
—Confucius
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us”.
—E. M. Forster
“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it”.
—Sai Baba
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them”.
—Dalai Lama
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
—Dolly Parton
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor”.
—Sholom Aleichem
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”.
—Edmund Burke
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware”.
—Henry Miller
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
—Kobe Bryant
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”.
—Nelson Mandela
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
—Leo Burnett
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
—Soren Kierkegaard
“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed”.
—Eminem
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour”.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough”.
—Oprah Winfrey
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”.
—John Lennon
“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family”.
—Philip Green
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
—Seneca
“Life is not lost by dying”, but, “life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways”
—Stephen Vincent Benet
“To live is the rarest thing in the world; most people just exist.”
—Oscar Wilde
“If you have not yet understood your life’s purpose, probably, it’ll be hard for you to understand why you’re not moving forward in life.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“Nobody ever sees his own face in the glass. What he observes there is a compound, divided into three parts: one part himself as he really is, one part representing what he expects to see, and a third part, what he wishes to behold.”
—Richard Burton
“What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?”
—H.G. Wells
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing.”
—Katherine Mansfield
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties out of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities out of his difficulties.”
—Robert Mansell
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring men on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and follow them to reach your destiny.”
—Carl Schurz
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, the continuous thread of revelation.”
—Eudora Welty
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“Never lose sight of the face that the most important yard stick to your success is how you treat other people.”
—Barbara Bush
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
—Helen Keller
“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”
—Rosa Parks
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.”
—Jackie Robinson
“I don’t go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head.”
—Princess Diana
“Life has no formula, what life has is principle”.
―B.S.O kpechi
About Love
“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have laboured in the search for truth and both have helped us in the finding of it.”
—St. Thomas Aquinas
“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
―Jane Austen
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
—Robert A. Heinlein
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage”.
—Lao Tzu
“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it”.
―Criss Jami
“A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.”
—Brendan Francis
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love”.
—Mother Teresa
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend”.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“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 withering, of tarnishing.”
―Anais Nin
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates’ purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…”
―Elizabeth Gilbert
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
―Sarah Dessen
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore, is winged Cupid painted blind.”
―William Shakespeare
“Love is like the wind; you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
―Nicholas Sparks
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
―Jane Austen
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
―Andre Gide
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
―William Shakespeare
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
―Elie Wiesel
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit”.
—Khalil Gibran
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen”.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you”.
— Erich Fromm
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity”.
—Henry Van Dyke
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
—Oscar Wilde
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
—Dr. Seuss
“If I had a flower for every time, I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
—Alfred Tennyson
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies”.
—Aristotle
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone”.
—Orson Welles
“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
―Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit”.
—Khalil Gibran
“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.”
―Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”
―Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does”.
—Torquato Tasso
“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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.”
―Anais Nin
“The way to love anything is to realise that it may be lost”.
—Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.”
―Brené Brown
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it”.
—Mark Twain
“I do not want your blind and rigid loyalty towards my ideas, I want you to explore, I want you to expand, I want you to expand to such an extent that even my ideas become obsolete.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
―Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
―Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
“All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood to choose our best way to die. If we don’t do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn’t enough to make our lives have a meaning”.
―Yamamoto Tsunetomo
“Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong”.
―Ron Pau
“We must terminate our loyalty to ineffectiveness, pursue a goal that satisfies the future yearning and not the one that pacifies the current hunger”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”.
―Martin Luther King Jr. (Letter from Birmingham Jail.)
“The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism”.
―Dag Hammarskjold
“When loyalty is misguided, those who are seemingly loyal to some extent become cage-bound.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“One can’t allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite”.
― Jean-Claude Juncker
“Loyalty to an unjust cause is a perversion of honour”.
—Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me- they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could”.
—Veronica Roth
“This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice”.
Madam C. J. Walker
“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul”.
—Mark Twain
“Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty”.
—Minna Antrim
“A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away.”
– Arthur Miller
“Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness”.
—Edwin Louis Cole
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings”.
—Albert Schweitzer
“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers”.
—Frederick R. Reichheld
“If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you”.
—Jacqueline Carey
“If you can’t value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too”.
—Ram Mohan
“Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart — the centre of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it — and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal”.
—Maurice Franks
“Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one”.
—Milan Kundera
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses”.
— Ann Landers
“My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures”.
—Oscar Wilde
“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved”.
—Martin Luther
“All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.”
—John Barth
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other”.
—Mario Puzo
“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men”.
—Robert Jordan
“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism are loyalty to that principle”.
—George William Curtis
“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
―Emilie Autumn
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”
―Albert Camus
“Active loyalists do not merely support the president but publicly defend even his most controversial moves. Passive loyalists retreat from public view when scandals erupt but still vote with the president. Critical loyalists try, in a sense, to have it both ways. They may publicly distance themselves from the president’s worst behaviour, but they do not take any action (for example, voting in Congress) that will weaken, much less bring down, the president. In the face of presidential abuse, any of these responses will enable authoritarianism.”
―Steven Levitsky
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
―Plutarch
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”.
—Aristotle
“It’s only when you’re in control of your mind that you’ll be able to ‘Rewrite Your Reality’”.
― glonins.com
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
―mahatma Gandhi
“A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
―Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It’s a state of mind”.
—Amisha Patel
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
―Frank McCourt
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
―Jeffrey Eugenides
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
―Plutarch
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one”.
—Malcolm Forbes
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment”.
—Buddha
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit”.
—John Steinbeck
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject”.
—Winston Churchill
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves”.
—Carl Jung
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve”.
—Mary Kay Ash
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind”.
—Joyce Meyer
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“You either control your mind or it controls you.”
—Napoleon Hill
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit”.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
“The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality”.
—Earl Nightingale
“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself”.
—Laurence Sterne
“A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”
—Napoleon Hill
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
—Theodore Roosevelt
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
―Joseph Addison
“The sky is not the limit. Your mind is.”
—Marilyn Monroe
“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
―Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.”
—Les Brown
“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”
—Walt Disney
“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
―Terry Pratchett
“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
—Yoko Ono
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
—Thomas Paine
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
―Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
―G.K. Chesterton
It’s our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
—Yehuda Berg
“Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”
—Tony Robbins
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty”.
―Albert Einstein
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
—Pablo Neruda
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
—Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.”
—James Thurber
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences”.
―Robert Green Ingersoll
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished”.
―Lao Tzu
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
—Joseph Campbell,
“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
—Emma Goldman
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us”.
―Brian Jacques
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous”.
―Aristotle
“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.”
—Maxime Lagacé
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
―Lord Byron
“Colours are the smiles of nature.”
—Leigh Hunt
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”
—John Muir
“If we remain humble and grounded in nature’s wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. (“Why step out of nature?”)”
―Erik Pevernagie
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
—William Shakespeare
“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”
—Anton Chekhov
“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
—Zeno
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright
“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”
—Jane Austen
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful”.
―Alice Walker
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”.
—Khalil Gibran
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter”.
—Rachel Carson
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order”.
—John Burroughs
“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature”.
―Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”.
―Walt Whitman
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley”.
―Theodore Roethke
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves”.
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”
―Rose Kennedy
“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too.”
—Beau Taplin
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction”.
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’”
—Lewis Carroll
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge – every adversity – contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“When opportunity presents itself, don’t be afraid to go after it.”
―Eddie Kennison
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
―John F. Kennedy
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”.
―Thomas A. Edison
“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity”.
―H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
―Albert Einstein
“Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.”
―Hillary Clinton
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
―Emily Dickinson
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
―Albert Einstein
“Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
―Richard Branson
“Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.”
―Jameela Jamil
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise”.
―Kobe Bryant
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
–John D. Rockefeller
“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
–Mark Zuckerberg
“Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.”
–Brian Tracy
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world”.
―Dolores Huerta
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
―Napoleon Hill
“If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade”.
―Tom Peters
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently”.
―Henry Ford
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before”.
―Rahm Emanuel
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.”
―Boris Pasternak
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more”.
―Jonas Salk
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”.
―Winston Churchill
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death”.
―James F. Byrnes
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage”.
―Victor Kiam
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”.
―Milton Berle
“Expect change. Analyse the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”
–Tony Robbins
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
–John D. Rockefeller
“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.”
―Richard Branson
“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”
―Douglas MacArthur
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People”.
―Eugene Victor Debs
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
―Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
“That’s libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
―Kim Stanley Robinson
“When our thoughts are healthy, we make decisions that catalyse transformation and cut across generations. But when our thoughts are unhealthy, we believe that we can entice the electorate by offering carrots to them to achieve our end”.
―glonins.com
“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like”.
―Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”.
Martin Luther King Jr. (-Letter from Birmingham Jail.)
“Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons—not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognised.”
―Paulo Freire
“Segregation gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realise that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”
―J.K. Rowling
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”.
―Steven Biko
“Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”
―Frantz Fanon
“By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?”
—Walter Rodney
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organised conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
―Frederick Douglass
“Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We’ve been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed – that love has to be reciprocated”.
―Charlamagne Tha God
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
―Robert F. Kennedy
“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”
―Alan Moore
“The idea that the Internet favours the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside”.
―Evgeny Morozov
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
―Booker T. Washington
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
―Anne Bradstreet
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
―Paulo Freire
“Because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”
―Madeline L’Engle
“Two children of the same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It’s a conflict between two victims”.
―Amos Oz
“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
―Gore Vidal
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
―Karl Marx
“If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters”.
―Steven Biko
“What people don’t know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system”.
―Hugh Masekela
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
―Aung San Suu Kyi
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
―Nelson Mandela
“When you’re talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it’s the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us”.
―Lakeith Stanfield
“There isn’t a religion on earth that isn’t damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race – women. They are all oppressors of women”.
―Susan Powter
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.”
―Malcolm X
“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else’s oppression, we’ll find our opportunities to make real change.”
―Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”
―Simone de Beauvoir
“Tread very carefully where injustice is concerned, because it takes very little for the oppressed to become the new oppressors.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the humblest terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”
―Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the colour of the skin…”
―Malcolm X
“Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.”
―James Madison
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
―Bernard M. Baruch
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
―Michael Cunningham
“Everyone Who Got Where He Is, Had to Begin from Where He Was – The Peaceful Mind”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart”.
―Helen Keller
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
―Criss Jami
“Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”
―Kazuo Ishiguro
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Clear-sightedness, persistence, and transcendence can be excellent antidotes for ultimate peace of mind and buoyancy in life, and sometimes valuable cures against social and administrative bashing. (“Sisyphus on the hill”)”
―Erik Pevernagie
“Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life’s seasons.”
―Suzy Kassem
“The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.”
―Criss Jami
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
―St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“You have peace when you make it with yourself.”
―Mitch Albom
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
—Lao Tzu
“Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.”
—Dalai Lama
“Tell me that man who enjoys discrimination and I will show you that burdened heart without peace”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
―Albert Einstein
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.
Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.”
―Aberjhani
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
―Siddhārtha Gautama
“Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.”
―Pablo
“When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
―Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.”
―Germany Kent
“If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquillity and peace nature will serve you.”
―Amit Ray
“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming”.
―John Wooden
“When we understand people;
when we understand situations;
when we understand what matters;
when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;
when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.”
―Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”
―George Christoph Lichtenberg
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
―Aristotle
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
—Edith Wharton
“When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.”
—Maha Ghosananda
“Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay calm”.
―Yves Behar
“People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves.”
―Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“When we free ourselves from the chaos enclosed in the surrounding rigid social structure, we can find peace of mind and still our hunger for knowledge and understanding. If we follow the rhythm of our heartbeat, we can quench our thirst for meaning in life and encounter an array of soothing vibrations of wellbeing. (“A handful of dust”)”
―Erik Pevernagie
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”.
―Plato
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis”.
―Dante Alighieri
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed”.
―Mao Zedong
“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
―Marie Lu, Legend
“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head”.
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half”.
―Wendell Phillips
“The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains”.
―Herbert Spencer
“Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer”.
―Sir Walter Scott
“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men”.
―George Jean Nathan
“One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the facts”.
―John Maynard Keynes
“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt”.
―Daniel Hannan
“Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favour those whom they profess to follow”.
―Samuel Johnson
“A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honourable, generous, tolerant and respectful”.
―Charles W. Pickering
“Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing”.
―Bernard Baruch
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything”.
―Joseph Stalin
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage”.
―Ambrose Bierce
“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least”.
―Robert Byrne
“Every politician, when he leaves office, ought to go straight to jail and serve his time”.
―American Folk Saying
“I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it”.
―Mark Clark
“Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply into each other’s pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third”.
―Ambrose Bierce
“The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favour of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be”.
―Marshall McLuhan
“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip”.
―Caskie Stinnett
“Political corruption is the toboggan to national disruption”.
―John A. Ward
“If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken someday to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless”.
―William Graham Sumner
“Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling”.
―Woodrow Wilson
“Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them”.
―Herbert Hoover
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand”.
―Milton Friedman
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“I’m completely in favour of the
separation of Church and State.
… These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
―George Carlin
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
―Sun Tzu
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
―Douglas Adams
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
―Ayn Rand
“A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.”
―Henry Wallace
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
―Ernest Benn
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
―Jose Marti
“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.”
―John Steinbeck
“Beware the nation in which one-man rules, for it is a nation of slaves.”
―Simón Bolívar
“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently, it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.”
―Theodore J. Kaczynski
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them.”
―Thomas Jefferson
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
―Napoleon Bonaparte
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“I love my country, not my government.”
―Jesse Ventura
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”
―John F. Kennedy
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies”
―John Marsden
“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison
“If you could see the potential within you, it would amaze you to see all that you are capable of being.”
―Catherine Pulsifer
“We must reach out for our full potential. The potential lies in our inner strength.”
―Lailah Gifty Akita
“To effectively unlock potential in your child, it’s important to have a support system and to use education as a tool for empowerment”.
―David C Hall
“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“So much of what we have inherited sits just outside of our awareness. That makes it hard sometimes to know whether we are reacting in the here and now to our child’s behaviour or whether our responses are more rooted in our past”.
―Phillipa Perry
“There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.”
―Rusty Berkus
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence”.
―Confucius
“Whether we coach, advise, counsel, facilitate, or mentor, the effectiveness of what we do depends in large measure on our beliefs about human potential.”
―John Whitmore
“For me, the greatest joy is to reach out and engage with others; to help them see and realize their full potential and watch them grow and them move towards their own happiness.”
―Tony Clark
“The truth is, we all have far more creative potential waiting to be tapped.”
―Tom Kelley
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us”.
―Wilma Rudolph
“By living to your full potential, you’ll not only change your world, you’ll change the world around you too”.
―Vex King
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do”.
―Pope John XXIII
“The ability to participate in miracles – true miracles in your life – happens when you open your mind to your limitless potential.”
―Wayne Dyer
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
―William Faulkner
“Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world”.
―Maria Montessori
“Negative thoughts are harming your mental health and limiting your potential. They don’t help you get the life you deserve.”
―Thibaut Meurisse
“I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us”.
―Bob Ross
“You can remodel yourself to anything you want to become.”
―Sunday Adelaja
“There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do.”
―Donna Levine
“You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Your friends will believe in your potential; your enemies will make you live up to it.”
―Tim Fargo
“The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.”
― Sarah Dessen
“Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Nothing or no one is going to rescue you from your current situation. You must take control of your own well-being and forge your own path to happiness and fulfilment.”
―Germany Kent
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
―Leo F. Buscaglia
“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“That which we call talent is inspired by passion and motivated by goals, but unfortunately, it is discouraged by the ignorance of not recognising that which is wonderfully planted in us for which lacks the necessary care to germinate through our negligence”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Ever since I was a child, I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential”.
―Bruce Lee
“He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbours because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine”.
―Jeremy Taylor
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time”.
Jonathan Swift
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
―C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes”.
―John Ruskin
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
―Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Remember, when the peacock struts his stuff the shows his backside to half the world”.
―Herve Wiener
“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.”
―Jorge Luis Borges
“A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing”.
―Henry Ford
“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit”.
―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Pride loves and is flattered by praise. Humility avoids and is embarrassed by such”.
―Hilarion Dorostolski
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
―Sophocles, Antigone
“Pride is the trap of ego pleasure”.
―Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.”
―Rick Warren
“A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work-the pride that makes business an art”.
―Henry L. Doherty
“Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It’s like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.”
―John Lithgow
“Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.”
―Anthony Liccione
“Detect pride in yourself so that it will not bring about your fall”.
―Thomas J. Sica
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
―Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
“Help me lay my ego at your feet and step away from a heart filled with pride. Let me only boast of you”. Amen.
―Karen Moore, Wellspring
“Persons in a position of power, which dictates making decisions affecting the lives of people, very easily succumb to the sin of pride”.
―Kenneth A. Penman
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
―Thomas Jefferson
“My pride fell with my fortunes”.
―William Shakespeare
“After all, without a sense of pride, one might not achieve or continue to strive for excellence in one’s field of endeavour”.
―Michael Eric Dyson
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.”
―Will Rogers
“Comfort zone makes one belong to the group of those who watch things happen; negative mind-set categorises one in the group of those who wonder what happens while Positive attitude places one at par with those who make things happen”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“If you can’t give meaning to your job, you’ll always find it exhausting and if you can’t transform your job into work, you’ll continue to live in the past”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery than that of the chains of mental slavery”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“The subjective mind vis a vis knowledge has never made relatively positive progress in the journey towards the liberation of the human mind”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“It’s the closed mind that seals off creative solutions, keeps us at the point we’re in life, where we’ve been, and will continue to be. If we continue to entertain the closed mind, we’ll find ourselves eliminating any possibility for new opportunities’”.
― B.S.O kpechi
“It’s the positive attitudes you hold onto in your life that will direct your actions against negative situations. Therefore, do not dwell on a negative mindset so that you’ll achieve your purpose in life.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“If the only thing you can do is to crawl, do so and believe that one day you’ll walk; if you happen to walk, don’t stop there, take a step forward to run; if you eventually run, look towards the eagle and one day you’ll soar above the sky and beyond.”
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“Remember that we started our lives as strong as we could, grow and change as we learn. Unfortunately, many people, when they begin their career after graduation from college, that growth which started at an exhilarating pace slows down even to a creeping and dreary stagnation”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“If education is expensive, will you prefer to wallow in ignorance and abandon the much-desired holistic education?”
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“Educating the mind towards the reality of life is as difficult as piercing through the mental slavery”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Having the sense of ‘free will’ shouldn’t make us behave instinctively, thereby losing the sense of deliberation and reflection”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“Falling down doesn’t make one a failure, it’s your ability to rise that determines the next dimension”.
― B.S.O. Kpechi
“People who fail to understand want to know, but those who know, refuse to understand”.
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“One of the greatest tragedies of our time is that a greater percentage of politicians and ‘leaders’ are akin to the cock which produces sperm (idea) that cannot fertilise (build) an egg (a nation)”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“It’s only the visionary and transformational leaders that will gracefully attain the culmination of a distinguished career in politics”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“It is implausible to hook a fish without a bait”, and the politicians’ baits are their empty promises.
―B.S.O kpechi
“When nations are inveterately ruled by the Methuselahs’, generations are perpetually starved of wisdom of the Solomons'”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“It’s ironic that in our world today, irrespective of colour, creed or status, those who are envisaged to lead the way are mostly the first to be led astray”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Inclusive governance is the quotidian means by which nations are built and elevated for the sake of a better generation”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“It’s the joy of living that gives humans the craving for procreation.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“Every ability of a human being is innate. Its manifestation is forged in the crucible of hard work”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Life is worth living when we are able to exercise our ‘freedom’ and find peace doing what nourishes our soul”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“If you have not yet understood your life’s purpose, probably, it’ll be hard for you to understand why you’re not moving forward in life.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“Life has no formula, what life has is principle”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“We must terminate our loyalty to ineffectiveness, pursue a goal that satisfies the future yearning and not the one that pacifies the current hunger”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“When loyalty is misguided, those who are seemingly loyal to some extent become cage-bound.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“Everyone Who Got Where He Is, Had to Begin from Where He Was – The Peaceful Mind”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Tell me that man who enjoys discrimination and I will show you that burdened heart without peace”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“That which we call talent is inspired by passion and motivated by goals, but unfortunately, it is discouraged by the ignorance of not recognising that which is wonderfully planted in us for which lacks the necessary care to germinate through our negligence”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“The purpose of TRUE religion is not to stifle freedom but to educate conscience because when conscience is educated, you’ll know and understand the responsibility of freedom”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“If you’re yet to question what you believe in, review what you’re compelled to incorporate, untie yourself from the things being programmed in your mind, any ‘truth’ sought-after, can’t be found”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Until we are able to understand that our minds are enslaved, we cannot simply influence and deconstruct that belief system embedded in our lives as well as the rules we’ve been living with”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“If you’ll accept the fact that every progress, big or small starts with you, you’ll understand that suicide is not an option”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“The power of transformation lives in you; the impulse and the proclivity for suicide lives outside you”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Assuming responsibility for every decision that we take in our lives gives us the willpower to alter certain occurrences in our lives”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“When clay finds its way to the potter’s house, it’ll never return back the same and the end product is transformation”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Vision, just like a tree, can never grow tall and bear fruits while confined in a flower vessel. It is either it breaks the vessel to flourish or it perishes while grappling to fit in with that compact vessel”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“The moment you’re at the right trajectory of your future, you’ll continue to aspire, you’re bound to inspire… and will never expire before you retire”. ―B.S.O Kpechi
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves”.
―Ray Kroc
“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
―Napoleon Hill
“Quality is not an act; it is a habit”.
―Aristotle
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
―John Ruskin
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected”.
―Steve Jobs
“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity”.
―Mahatma Gandhi
“There’s reason good fabrics have a cost. They’re done with good quality to last.”
―Zac Posen
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others”.
―Winston Churchill
“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.”
―Rick Pitino
“A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support”.
―Kate Middleton
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
―Henry Ford
“Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop”.
―Dorothy Height
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.”
―Philip Green
“Improve the quality of your thoughts and you’ll improve the quality of your life.”
―Akiroq Brost
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour”.
―Vince Lombardi
“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.”
―Charles B. Rangel
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
―W.H. Auden
“I’d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
―Joss Whedon
“Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring”.
―Johan Cruyff
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”
―Marabel Morgan
“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
―Michael Bassey Johnson
“The key to keeping quality people around you is to become a person of quality yourself.”
―Mac Duke the Strategist
“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
―Charles Eames
“The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.”
―Richard Rogers
“I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.”
―Grace Jones
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company”.
―George Washington
“God has no religion.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding”.
―Louis D. Brandeis
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
―C.S. Lewis
“The purpose of TRUE religion is not to stifle freedom but to educate conscience because when conscience is educated, you’ll know and understand the responsibility of freedom”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land”.
―Desmond Tutu
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.”
―Voltaire
“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal”.
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three lasts have never converted any”.
―Frederick William Faber
“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim”.
―George Santayana
“The fanatic is incorruptible: If he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster”.
―E.M Cioran
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”.
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or in principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe and the opinions on which they will act”.
―Thomas Jefferson
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich”.
—Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor
“I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute”.
―Joseph Addison
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
―Garrison Keillor
“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is”.
―Albert Camus
“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
―Dan Brown
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself”.
―Swami Vivekananda
“A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”
―William Blake
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven…”
―John Milton
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”
―John Lennon
“Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it”.
—Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer
“Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy”.
―Franz Werfel
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Religion is like a pair of shoes…. Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes”.
—George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian
“The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion”.
—Arthur Clarke
“For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree”.
—Mahatma Gandhi
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.”
—Malcom X
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction”.
—Blaise Pascal
“Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat”.
―John Morley
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand”.
—Karl Marx
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”.
―Galileo Galilei
“If you’re yet to question what you believe in, review what you’re compelled to incorporate, untie yourself from the things being programmed in your mind, any ‘truth’ sought-after, can’t be found”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.”
—Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani politician
“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend”.
—Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him, who prays.”
—Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher
“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”
—Khalil Gibran
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
―C.S. Lewis
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
—Dalai Lama
“A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done.”
―Cardinal Newman
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”.
–Muhammad Ali
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
―Virgil
“Taking risks doesn’t mean shirking responsibility, but embracing possibilities”.
―Vick Hope
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson,
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”
―Thomas Huxley
“I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door”.
―Marla Gibbs
“You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.”
―Earl Nightingale
“Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”
―Nicola Yoon
“In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
―Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.”
―T.S. Eliot
“Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you’ve never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that”.
―Jen Sincero
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
―Helen Keller
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks”.
―Mark Zuckerberg
“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
―Seneca
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction”.
―John F. Kennedy
“When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
—Ellen DeGeneres
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”
―Billy Wilder
“Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.”
―Sarah Parish
“The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.”
―Goethe
“Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that”.
―Justine Skye
“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”
―General George S. Patton
“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”
―Jimmy Carter
“What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.”
―Peter Drucker
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
―William James
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
―Niccolo Machiavelli
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
―David Lloyd George
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks”.
―Yo-Yo Ma
“If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs”.
―Peter Diamandis
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“You can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks”.
―Esme Bianco
“So, we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
―Hunter S. Thompson
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defence or reserve.”
―William S. Burroughs
“You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don’t take risks”.
―Diego Maradona
“Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks”.
―Waylon Jennings
“If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”
―Drew Barrymore
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience”.
―Paulo Coelho
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
―Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks”.
―Mark Twain
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”
―Denis Waitley
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
―Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
“The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.”
―Bonnie Hammer
“My motto in life is ‘Take risks;’ you don’t have a voice if you don’t. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That’s what life’s all about”.
―Kelly Wearstler
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
―Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
“I freed a thousand slaves”, “I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”.
―Harriet Tubman
“Why did we become blind, I don’t know, perhaps one day we’ll find out, do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
―Jose Saramago
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
―C.S. Lewis
“The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.”
―Jean de la Bruyere
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
―Abraham Lincoln
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
―Frederick Douglass
“In our generation, we have moved away only one step from slavery. The difference is that, every work deserves a payment nowadays. But the employees are still under the mercy of the employer.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln
“The society of the future: slavery without masters”.
—Nicolas Gomez Davila
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is found in chains”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners”.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
―George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
“If there is such a thing as mental slavery, then we need a mental revolution to get rid of all the corrupt minds who wish to enslave mankind.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery”.
—George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer
“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
―Carl Sagan
“When I look at history, I see hours of freedom and centuries of servitude”.
—Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s”.
—William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter
“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave”.
—Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer
“Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom”.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims
“How do you convince an enslaved-mind that it is actually free …and kingly?”
―Mitta Xinindlu
“There is no dignity and there is no real life for the man who works twelve hours a day without knowing why he works”.
—André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman
“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her”.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
―Henry David Thoreau
“Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them: they love their servitude”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king”.
—Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher
“The society that does not respect the sacrifices of their soldiers, remain slave of the corrupt political systems.”
―Dr. Ashok Anand
“The impact of colonization caused the delay in the evolution of mankind. The mental capacity of man has been reduced to that of animals. So, let’s break this mental slavery and the decolonization of the Will.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“It can be concluded that to believe in predestination is to deprive us of our free will. No freedom, but we are all slaves to our actions.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo, Destiny of Liberty
“It’s mentally draining to be in the slavery of one’s self. But when I am free, my circle will be so small that it can only contain two people.”
―Daniel Oluwaseun
“A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.” Victor Hugo, a French poet,
“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you”.
―Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Until we are able to understand that our minds are enslaved, we cannot simply influence and deconstruct that belief system embedded in our lives as well as the rules we’ve been living with”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Mental slavery is the worst form of Slavery. It gives you the illusion of freedom, makes you trust, love and defend your oppressor while making an enemy of those who are trying to free you or open your eyes”.
―Miss Fiyah
“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
―Tony Dorsett
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”.
―Albert Schweitzer
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success”.
―Edward Everett Hale
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”.
―Winston Churchill
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
―Tony Robbins
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”
―Zig Ziglar
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”.
―Albert Einstein
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome”.
―Booker T. Washington
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan”.
―John F. Kennedy
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
―Jim Rohn
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.’”
―Steve Jobs
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom”.
―Gen. George Patton
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at”.
―Stephen Hawking
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
―Anthony Robbins
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.”
―David Brinkley
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
―Thomas Edison
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
―Winston S. Churchill
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
―Herman Melville
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”
―Herbert Bayard Swope
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
―Jim Rohn
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
―Ray Goforth
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds”.
―Orison Swett Marden
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
―Jim Rohn
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
―Steve Jobs
“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
―Barack Obama
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
―Colin Powell
“But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
―Albert Camus
“Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.”
―Sinead O’Connor
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
―Phil Donahue
“If you’ll accept the fact that every progress, big or small starts with you, you’ll understand that suicide is not an option”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Did you really want to die?”
“No one commits suicide because they want to die.”
“Then why do they do it?”
“Because they want to stop the pain.”
―Tiffanie DeBartolo
“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Never never never give up.”
―Winston Churchill
“Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.”
―Karl A. Menninger
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
―George Sand
“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit!”
―Bill Maher
“Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.”
―Al Green
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
―Juliette Lewis
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
―Bertrand Russell
“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
―Juliette Lewis
“Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.”
―Robert Harris
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
―David Levithan
“Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy.”
―Kay Redfield Jamison
“I’m the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”
―Tom Leveen
“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
―Charles Bukowski
“A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!”
―Arthur Miller
“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
―David Foster Wallace
“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”
—Jack Penn
“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitably lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honourable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
―Emilie Autumn
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
―Emil Cioran
“Suicide is the last attempt of re-emergence of the will of life.”
―Lamine Pearlheart
“I’m trying to let him know what I’m about to do.
I’m hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can’t.”
―Matthew Quick
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”
—John Green
“If your heart is still beating, God is not done with you yet.”
—Dillion Burroughs
“Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank — but that’s not the same thing.”
―Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
―J. Michael Straczynski
“Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!”
―Allan Rufus
“Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually “give up” and lose interest in the worth of fighting any longer.”
―Osjusn CC
“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don’t kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, “He fought so hard.” And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.”
―Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.”
― C. S. Lewis
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
―Voltaire
“I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
―Ned Vizzini
“If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”
―Hayley Williams
“I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequently and obsessively.”
―Stephen Fry
“To anyone out there who’s hurting — it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help. It’s a sign of strength.”
―Barack Obama
“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn’t so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”
―Tao Lin
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
―Albert Camus
“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when ‘should be’ gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because ‘what could have been’ is much more highly regarded than ‘what should have been.’ Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
―Neal Shusterman
“Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.”
—Gore Vidal
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The power of transformation lives in you; the impulse and the proclivity for suicide lives outside you”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
―Germany Kent
“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”
―Dean Jackson
“You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.”
―Jeff Weiner
“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.”
―Michael Hyatt
“Assuming responsibility for every decision that we take in our lives gives us the willpower to alter certain occurrences in our lives”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself.”
―Bryant McGill
“Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.”
―Nia Peeples
“You and I possess within ourselves at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.”
―Werner Erhard
“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
―Bernie S. Siegel
“Yes, your transformation will be hard. Yes, you will feel frightened, messed up and knocked down. Yes, you’ll want to stop. Yes, it’s the best work you’ll ever do.”
―Robin Sharma
“Don’t ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It’s not about zigging when you should zag. It’s not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It’s just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.”
―Marilyn Manson
“You have to love yourself enough to set a standard for your life that you’re unwilling to compromise. If you accept the standards of others for your life, you’ll never be happy.”
―Tony Gaskins
“Transformation isn’t sweet and bright. It’s a dark and murky, painful pushing. An unravelling of the untruths you’ve carried in your body. A practice in facing your own created demons. A complete uprooting, before becoming.”
―Victoria Erickson
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
―John D. Rockefeller
“I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.”
―Debbie Ford
“You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.”
―Cory Booker
“Each tiny effort builds on the next, so that brick by brick, magnificent things can be created.”
―Robin Sharma
“Nothing happens until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change.”
―Arthur Burt
“The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle.”
―Janet S. Dickens
“The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.”
―Ginni Rometty
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
―Winston Churchill
“When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.”
―Ravi Zacharias
“To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people”.
―Thich Nhat Hanh
“The most propagandistic element of ‘Frozen’ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending”.
―Jordan Peterson
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
―Harriet Tubman
“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation”.
―Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
―Rumi
“The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.”
―Henepola Gunaratana
“Moving doesn’t change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window.”
―Rachel Hollis
“When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.”
―Suze Orman
“Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they’d originally anticipated”.
―Amy Morin
“When clay finds its way to the potter’s house, it’ll never return back the same and the end product is transformation”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
―Joseph Campbell
“Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open”.
―Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”
―Rick Warren
“Unless an internal shift occurs change will not last”.
―Dr. Karen Keller
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
―Winston Churchill
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
―Thomas Jefferson
“We go wrong when we don’t admit the unknowable complexity of reality, but we go dangerously wrong when we claim that one pale story—or an anthology of them—is truth”.
Dean Koontz
“No legacy is so rich as honesty”.
―William Shakespeare
“I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honour and my reward”
―Kahlil Gibran
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident”.
―Arthur Schopenhauer
“The truth makes all things complete, it brings things to fulfilment, and it brings thing to an end. It completes the circle of life and reality”.
―E. B. Staples
“Stop hanging out with people that tell you what you want to hear. Hang out with people who tell you the truth”.
―Eric Thomas
“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it”.
―Confucius
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”.
―Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The truth is, those who consistently lack positive emotions in their lives more often than not tend to generate much of the world’s unkindness”.
―Michael J. Chase
“Many of us live in two worlds when it comes to relationships. In one we have connection without truth; in the other we have truth without connection”.
―Henry Cloud
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth”.
―Henry David Thoreau
“Being truthful to ourselves can help us develop the right mindset and help us to become more willing to doing a self-assessment”.
―Michael W. Barnett
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth”.
―Arthur Conan Doyle
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”.
―Winston Churchill
“Yes, the truth may hurt but lies will become a crutch and will cripple you”.
―Stephen T. Scott
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act”.
―George Orwell
“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth”.
―C. S. Lewis
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
―George Carlin
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
―Mark Twain
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
―Joe Klaas
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
―Mark Twain
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
―Aldous Huxley
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away”.
―Elvis Presley
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons”.
―Michael Jackson
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything”.
― Mark Twain
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth”.
―Buddha
“Yet, being loud doesn’t increase the value or validity of their opinion. In fact, often by the very nature of being the loudest, those opinions are typically the furthest from reality”.
―Mark Homer, Uncommon sense
“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue”.
―John Ruskin
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth”.
―Oscar Wilde
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless…beyond speech…beyond concept.”
―Thomas Merton
“I dream of the realisation of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses”.
―Nelson Mandela
“Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
―Criss Jami, Healology
“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamouring for love.”
―Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”
―Baha’U’Llah
“We are each other’s harvest, we are each other’s business, we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
―Gwendolyn Brooks
“Remember, the conduct of each depends on the fate of all.”
―Alexander The Great
“Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can’t afford divisive politics in India”.
―Manmohan Singh
“You don’t get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.”
―Jay Weatherill
“Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realise that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
―Jalaluddin Rumi
“Where there is unity there is always victory.”
―Publilius Syrus
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.”
―Rabindranath Tagore
“When I make a fist, it’s strong, and you can’t tear it apart. As long as there’s unity, there’s strength.”
―Ara Parseghian
“We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.”
―Woodrow T. Wilson
“Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity, spirit is light, life and unity.”
―Muhammad Iqbal
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
―Winston S.Churchill
“Unity can only come when there is better coordination and mutual understanding in the society.”
―Atharva Veda
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
―J.K. Rowling
“I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it’s in our unity that we’ll have the greatest strength.”
―Woody Harrelson
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
―Helen Keller
“Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential. Until husbands-wives, mothers-fathers, men-women work together in unity. For the purpose of respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.”
―Sheri L. Dew
“Even the weak become strong when they are united.”
―Friedrich von Schiller
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men.”
―Herman Melville
“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”
―Vince Lombardi
“In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity – every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.”
―Paul Bryant
“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
―Mattie Stepanek
“Vision, just like a tree, can never grow tall and bear fruits while confined in a flower vessel. It is either it breaks the vessel to flourish or it perishes while grappling to fit in with that compact vessel”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live”.
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
―Isaac Newton
Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.
―Muhammad Ali
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.”
―Helen Keller
“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window”.
―Charles Baudelaire
“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
―Bruce Lee
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality”.
―Warren G. Bennis
“The moment you’re at the right trajectory of your future, you’ll continue to aspire, you’re bound to inspire… and will never expire before you retire”. ―B.S.O Kpechi
“We are not stuck in the ruts of destiny, we have the power to break free, clear our vision and see a new life for ourselves”.
―Tony Clark
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done”.
—Ralph Lauren
“Wherever you find a prosperous business, you will come upon some individual who has Creative Vision”.
―Napoleon Hill
“If you don’t have a vision, you’re going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you’ve already seen.”
―Iyanla Vanzant
“When you have a vision that is strong enough and powerful enough, nothing can stand in your way”.
―Lewis Howes
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today”.
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Setting goals allows you to paint a vision of what you wish your future to be”.
―Catherine Pulsifer
“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.”
―Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs”.
―Vance Havner
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it”.
―Michelangelo
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”.
―Henry David Thoreau
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are”.
―Anais Nin
“Vision without execution is hallucination”.
―Thomas Edison
“Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires”.
―John C. Maxwell
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”.
―T. S. Eliot
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
―Albert Einstein
“Don’t focus on where you are today, keep positive vision and see yourself accomplishing your goals and fulfilling your destiny”.
―Joel Osteen
“Don’t expect people to understand your grind when God didn’t give them your vision”.
―Chris Gardner
“Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“If you have no vision of yourself in the future, then you have nothing to live for”.
―Les Brown
“Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe”.
―Oprah Winfrey
“The world of great opportunity is available now, as it has always been, only for those with great vision”.
―Andrew Carnegie
“If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream”.
―Arnold Schwarzenegger
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction”.
―Alvin Toffler
“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
―Allan Bloom
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world”.
―Joel A. Barker
“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision”.
―Dalai Lama
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
―Audre Lorde
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow”.
―Melody Beattie
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope”.
―George Washington Carver
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others”.
―Jonathan Swift
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”.
―Woodrow Wilson
“When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure”.
―Myles Munroe
“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision”.
―Khalil Gibran
“Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion”.
―Jack Welch
“A great leader’s courage to fulfil his vision comes from passion, not position”.
―John Maxwell
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you”.
―Steve Jobs
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
—Alexander Graham Bell
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.”
—Thomas Carlyle
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
—Jim Rohn
“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”
—Lou Holtz
“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
—Tricia Cunningham
“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
—Farrah Gray
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process”.
―Vincent Van Gogh
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“The beginning is the most important part of the work”.
―Plato
“When someone tells me ‘No,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”
—Karen E. Quinones Miller
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
―Saint Francis
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work”.
―Booker T. Washington
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
―Dale Carnegie
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence”.
―Laurence J. Peter
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
―Eva Young
“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened”.
―Albert Camus
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
—Paulo Coelho
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
―Dale Carnegie
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
—Thomas Edison
“Let us realise that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!”
―David O. McKay
“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things”.
―Byron Dorgan
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction”.
―Anne Frank
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
—Tony Robbins
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day”.
―Robert Frost
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
—Steve Jobs
“It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management”
—Alexandra of The Productivity Zone
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work”.
―Peter Drucker
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
―Robert Louis Stevenson
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
―George Lorimer
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully, we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
―Viggo Mortensen
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
―Jim Rohn
“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality”.
―Harold S. Geneen
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
―Henry Ford
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice”.
―Albert Einstein
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”.
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism”.
―Adam Hochschild
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action”.
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people’s lives”.
―Allen W. Wood
“Xenophobia doesn’t benefit anybody unless you’re playing high-stakes Scrabble”.
―Dennis Miller
“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying”.
―Anna Quindlen
“I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?”
―Bill Maher
“Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up”.
―Godfrey
“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden”.
―Desmond Tutu
“Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth”.
―Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can’t control – and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular – we look inward and not outward”.
―Michael Eric Dyson
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd”.
―Bertrand Russell
“I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples”.
―Rigoberta Menchu
“Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply”.
―Calvin Coolidge
“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life”.
―Oprah Winfrey
“Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia”.
―Pope Francis
“Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression”.
―Antonio Tabucchi
“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle”.
―Eric Hobsbawm
“We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction”.
―Bernie Sanders
“Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts”.
―Hans Kung
“I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It’s fear that cripples us. It’s fear that accounts for racism, it’s fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia”.
―Anna Quindlen
“Youth has no age.”
―Pablo Picasso
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”
―Pearl S. Buck
“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
―Natalie Clifford Barney
“Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.”
―Walter Raleigh
“It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.”
― Helen Keller
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.”
―G. M. Trevelyan
“Youth is to all the glad seasons of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.”
―Thomas Carlyle
“Your life, time, and brain should belong to you, not to an institution.”
—Grace Llewellyn
″‘Curiosity, ‘said the mayor. ‘A dangerous quality. Unhealthy. Especially regrettable in one so young. ‘”
―Jeanne DuPrau
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
―Mark Twain
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
―J. K. Rowling
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
―Vince Lombardi
“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”
―Benjamin Disraeli
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
―Albert Einstein
“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.”
―Forrest Gump
“Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.”
―Jean Cocteau
“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do.”
―Lucas
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
―Ferris Bueller
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
―Franz Kafka
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
―Herbert Hoover
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
―Charles Bukowski
“Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindset of youth today.”
―Graça Mache
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
―Diogenes
“Don’t criticise what you can’t understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.”
―Bob Dylan
“Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.”
―Frank Lloyd Wright
“A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colours would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.”
―Wyndham Lewis
“I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are.”
―John Denver
“Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark”.
―John Newton
“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems”.
―Charles Colson
“Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits”.
―Alan Cohen
“It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current”.
―Henry Fielding
“When you are labouring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself”.
―Confucius
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine”.
―Hosea Ballou
“Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies”.
―William Shakespeare
“My hat is in the ring”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools”.
―John Tillotson
“I remember a passage in Goldsmith’s “Vicar of Wakefield,” which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: “I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing”.
―Samuel Johnson
“Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honour and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications”.
―Richard Steele
“Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow”.
―Gautama Buddha
“I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle”.
―Arjun Rampal
“No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form”.
―William Godwin
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others”.
―Pasquier Quesnel
“Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader”.
―Paul J. Meyer
“Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow”.
―Khalil Gibran
“The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people”.
―Joseph Brant
“Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist”.
―Andrew O’Hagan
“I have come to the conclusion that it’s a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it’s good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation”.
―Henry Rollins
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal”.
―Charles Buxton
“I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. An excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a dilemma what I should call it”.
―Montaigne
“Zeal without knowledge is like fire without a grate to contain it; like a sword without a hilt to wield it by; like a high-bred horse without a bridle to guide him. It speaks without thinking, acts without planning, seeks to accomplish a good end without the adoption of becoming means”.
―Bate
“False zeal may rise as high as true, and indeed much higher; because it is extremely apt to estimate its object above its intrinsic and comparative importance. Besides, when a totally selfish heart is awakened into zeal, there is nothing in it to stem the tide of affections, which all unite and harmonize in the ardent pursuit of a selfish end. True zeal is a strong, steady, uniform, benevolent affection; but false zeal is a strong, desultory, boisterous, selfish passion”.
―Emmons
“Zealous men are always displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it”.
―W. Shenstone
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”.
―Voltaire
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment”.
―Owen Feltham
“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas”.
―Aldous Huxley
“Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian”.
―Benjamin Whichcote
“It is wonderful to have a high regard for the truth, but zeal for the truth must be balanced by a love for people, or it can give way to judgmentalism, harshness, and a lack of compassion”.
―John MacArthur
“Zeal is like fire; in the chimney it is one of the best servants; but out of the chimney it is one of the worst masters”.
―Thomas Brooks
“There is nothing that belongs to Christian experience more liable to a corrupt mixture than zeal”.
―Jonathan Edwards
“Zeal is a combination of two equally strong emotions: love and hate. It produces a strong love that hates anything that would harm its object. The Lord Jesus Christ expressed both aspects of zeal when He cleansed the temple; it was His passionate love for His Father’s house that caused Him to hate the terrible iniquity that desecrated it (Jn. 2:13-17; cf. Psm. 69:9)”.
―John MacArthur
“Zeal, the blind conductor of the will”.
―John Dryden
