WHAT THEY SAID.
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
-Oscar Wilde.
“You can’t argue with life because often it is just what it is … you have better luck when you accept it, love it, appreciate it, enjoy it and mostly live it.”
-South African Musician, Lira.
“You do not recite a poem to a man carrying a sword, you draw sword.”
-Anonymous Philosopher.
“Cherish your visions and dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
-Napoleon Hill.
“Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such word as defeat, they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.”
-A. P. Gouthey.
“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”
-Jack Lemmon.
“Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.”
-Harvey Mackay.
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
Thomas Watson.
“You always pass on the way to success.”
-Mickey Rooney.
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King.
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
-Martin Luther King Jnr
“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”
-Martin Luther.
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but the means with which we arrive at the goal.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King.
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
Martin Luther.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
-Martin Luther King Jnr.
“There is no such thing as failure, only results, with some more successful than others.”
-Jeff Keller.
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it.”
-William Durant.
“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully … and imaginatively … for its hidden assets”
-Michael Korda.
“The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.”
-Edward Simmons.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to learn forever.”
-Mahatma Gandhi.
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love”
-Mahatma Gandhi.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
-Mahatma Gandhi.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi.
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
-Mahatma Gandhi.
“Hate the sin and love the sinner.”
-Mahatma Gandhi.
“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you are in control, they are in control.”
-Tom Landry.
“Leadership is not so much about techniques and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration … of oneself and others. Great leadership is about human experiences not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.”
-Lance Secretan.
“Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success. For those of us who hope the strongest have within us the gift of miracles.”
-Sydney Bremer.
“The human heart feels things the human eye cannot see, and knows things the human mind cannot understand.”
Robert Vallett.
“Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone person to person.”
-Mother Teresa.
“Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.”
-Stephen R. Covey.
“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”
-Jesse Jackson.
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson.
“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”
-Unknown.
“To the world you might one person, but to one person you might be the world.”
-Unknown.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that you too, can become great.”
-Mark Twain.
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
-Erin Majors.
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.”
-Sir. Winston Churchill.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-Winston Churchill.
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
-Winston Churchill.
“Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: today it is too late; the wise lived yesterday.”
-Martial.
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
-Lao Tzu.
“He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.”
-Lao-Tzu.
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
-Benjamin Disraeli.
“Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes; Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
-Scott Adams.
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction to carry on.”
-Walter Lippmann.
“Success seems largely a matter of hanging on while others have let go.”
-William Feather.
“If you don’t like something- change it; if you can’t change it- change the way you think about it."
-Mary Engelbreit.
“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the streets I met a man who had no feet.”
-Ancient Persian saying.
“You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.”
-Charles Buxton.
“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth to action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”
Tyson Edwards.
“He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.”
-George Dwell.
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
-Confucius.
“Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.”
-Freidrich Nietzsche.
“One person with a belief is equal to ninety- nine who have only interests.”
-John Stuart Mills.
“When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
-Collen C. Barrett.
“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
-Karl Max.
“Wise man; one who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.”
-Elbert Hubbarb.
“The wise speak when they have something to speak; the fool speaks when they have to say something.”
-Anonymous.
“Leaders understand the power of choice.”
-Anonymous.
“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital ___The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”
-Andrew Carnegie.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters as compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not the circumstances.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“What we call results are beginnings.”
-R.W. Emerson.
“If you are walking down the right path and you are willing to keep walking, eventually you will make progress.”
Barrack Obama.
“We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better but still not good enough.”
-Barrack Obama.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
-Barrack Obama.
“Faith does not mean that you don’t have doubts.”
-Barrack Obama.
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”
-Barrack Obama.
“Hope- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.”
-Barrack Obama.
“My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.”
-Barrack Obama.
“It is only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your potential.
-Barrack Obama.
“It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.”
-President Barrack Obama.
“There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.”
-George Polya.
“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”
-Michel de Montaigne.
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they necessarily don’t want to go but ought to be.”
-Rosalyn Carter (wife to Jimmy Carter).
“No one can make you inferior without your consent.”
-Eleanor.
“Mediocres centralize trivial issues and trivialize the central issues.”
“Those who fear to risk have nothing, do nothing and they are nothing.”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift that why we call it the present.”
“Let us build those values that will enable us to overcome the challenges we encounter.”
“There is but one coward on earth and that is the coward that dares not to know.”
“It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that is what separates one person from another.”
“Every setback is a setback for bigger comeback.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled with but a flame to be ignited.”
“A plane cannot crush before it has taken off.”
“In the end we shall remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King.
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part . Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement , it is the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is left over when being in love has burned away and this is both an art and fortunate accident.”
“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”
“if I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it but you can spend it.”
‘We say we waste time, but it is impossible. We waste ourselves.”
“Failures don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan”
-Harvey Mackay.
“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
-Harvey Mackay.
‘We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
-Benjamin Franklin.
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
-Albert Einstein.
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
-Andrew Jackson (7th US President).
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
-Carl Sandburg.
“Obedience is better than sacrifice.”
“Success is a journey not a destination.”
“Everything is permissible but not everything id beneficial.”
“Imitation is limitation.”
“When the shadow of a tree is bent, straighten the tree not the shadow.”
-An African proverb..
“Don’t aim at breaking somebody’s record, set your own record.”
“opportunity is missed by many because it’s dressed as an overall and looks like work.”
-Thomas Edison, US Inventor (1837-1841).
“A man has to hold his manhood for urine to have direction.”
Self-esteem quotes.
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
-Buddha.
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.”
-Louisa May Alcott..
“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
-Fanury Brice.
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
-Harvey Fienstein.
“You are free to think but don’t think you are free.”
