“You don’t have a silver spoon in your mouth. You have a golden spoon in your palms. Use it and feed yourself”
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“Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t expect someone who doesn’t know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!”
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“A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Leadership is about making and maintaining a positive change. True leaders do not conform to the limits of the environments they stay in; the transform it positively!”
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“You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don't add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people’s credibility which won’t fit! Live like you!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Success is reserved for you if you persevere; it's not deserved by you if you are indolent!”
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Israelmore Ayivor