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“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy

“One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.”
John C. Maxwell

“I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species.”
Barack Obama

“The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.”
Billy Graham

“God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. That’s why, in many ways, your expectations will set the boundaries for your life. Jesus said, “According to your faith . . . be it done to you.”
Joel Osteen

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
Nelson Mandela

“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.”
C.S. Lewis

“The effective Christians of history have been men and women of great personal discipline. The connection between the words disciple and discipline is obvious. To be a true, effective disciple of Christ we must seek to discipline our lives and endeavor to walk even as He walked. The thing that has hindered the progress of the church is not so much our talk and our creeds; but it has been our walk, our conduct, our daily living. We need a revival of Christian example, and that can only come when professed followers of Christ begin to practice Christian discipline.”
Billy Graham

“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
Nelson Mandela

“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.”
Bruce Lee

“To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.”
Thomas Jefferson

“You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, “A man’s heart determines his speech.”
Rick Warren

“How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile.  We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.”
Barack Obama

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