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“Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.”
John C. Maxwell

“I have never been to St. John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the beating of the wings of the Eagle.”
Napoleon Hill

“The following morning, when I met for breakfast with the staff, we kept noisy music playing loudly on a tape recorder as a precaution against hidden microphones. It was a good thing we did: Later, we found five listening devices hidden in our rooms in the guesthouse. One staffer unscrewed a plate over the light switch in his room, discovered a bug, removed it, and took it home as a souvenir.”
Ronald Reagan

“On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. "A Time to Break Silence," at Riverside Church”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Don't give up. Come on. Just keep on trying. Don't frown. Smile! You can do it. If you just try a little harder. I've got a feeling this whole thing might just work out okay. You'll see. Don't give up. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Now I want to see all of you get up on your feet and look like you're enjoying yourselves. Come on, let's see some of that famous ‘Pennsylvania optimism’ I've heard so much about..." --from the recently discovered preamble to Gettysburg Address”
Abraham Lincoln

“The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.”
Billy Graham

“There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.”
Leo Tolstoy

“If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.”
John C. Maxwell

“Instead of trying to be great, be part of something greater than yourself.”
John C. Maxwell

“A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.”
Thomas Jefferson

"Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I...”
Leo Tolstoy

“Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.” 
Napoleon Hill

“I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments; it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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