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“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
Mother Teresa

“We bring God glory by serving others with our gifts.”
Rick Warren

“If we stare at our problems too much, think and talk about them too much, they are likely to defeat us. Glance at your problems but stare at Jesus.”
Joyce Meyer

“You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.”
Rick Warren

“You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“The Duke said: “Paul, I’m doing a hateful thing, but I must.” He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing’s sensor arms hung limply over the table, reminding Paul of some weird insect newly dead. The Duke’s”
Frank Herbert

“The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to deal with it!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
Albert Einstein

“It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.”
Thomas Jefferson

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times”
Bruce Lee

“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
Joel Osteen

“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but Natasha had no interest in any such questions. Questions like these, then as now, existed exclusively for people who see marriage only in terms of satisfaction given and received by the married couple, though this is only one principle of married life rather than its overall meaning, which lies in the family.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Abraham Lincoln

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