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“At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what’s really important and what isn’t. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, “When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.” 
― Joyce Meyer

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

“More often than not, a lack of progress in your muscle-building efforts can be linked to nutritional shortcomings in your diet.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER"
― Ronald Reagan

“There is no such thing as part freedom”
― Nelson Mandela

“A CHECKLIST FOR CHANGE Below are the questions you should review before attempting changes within an organization. When the questions can be answered with a yes, change tends to be easier. Questions that can only be answered with no (or maybe) usually indicate that change will be difficult. YES NO   ____ ____ Will this change benefit the followers? ____ ____ Is this change compatible with the purpose of the organization? ____ ____ Is this change specific and clear? ____ ____ Are the top 20 percent (the influencers) in favor of this change? ____ ____ Is it possible to test this change before making a total commitment to it? ____ ____ Are physical, financial, and human resources available to make this change? ____ ____ Is this change reversible? ____ ____ Is this change the next obvious step? ____ ____ Does this change have both short- and long-range benefits? ____ ____ Is the leadership capable of bringing about this change? ____ ____ Is the timing right?”
― John C. Maxwell

“The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”
― John C. Maxwell

“… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You’ve got to listen to what God’s telling you and not to what other people may tell you. People will try to talk you out of the dream in your heart.”
― Joel Osteen

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