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“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. ”
Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.”
Mother Teresa

“I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.”
Thomas Jefferson

“I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.”
Nelson Mandela

“The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
C.S. Lewis

“Folks hear stories like that, they just stop trying to talk to these young cats out here. We start generalizing about ’em just like the white folks do. We see ’em hanging out, we head the other way. After a while, even the good kid starts realizing ain’t nobody out here gonna look out for him. So he figures he’s gonna have to look after himself. Bottom line, you got twelve-year-olds making their own damn rules.” Johnnie”
Barack Obama

“When leaders learn and live good values, they make themselves more valuable and lift the value of other people. That is the foundation of positive leadership.”
John C. Maxwell

“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
Bruce Lee

“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”
John F. Kennedy

“Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Stay strong; disappointments will not stay for that long. Wipe away your tears; be ready to receive cheers from people all over the world, beginning from you!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“To achieve any worthy goal, you must take risks. Amelia Earhart believed that, and her advice when it came to risk was simple and direct: "Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.”
John C. Maxwell

“Sacrifice is joy.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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