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“If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot. in the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark one Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so in effective in this. And that Heaven and you'll get the earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you'll get neither.”
C.S. Lewis

“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”
Barack Obama

“What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
Bill Gates

“Any day that we don’t give up puts us one day closer to success.”
Joyce Meyer

“When you know your purpose and priorities and you have ordered your day, week, or year according to them, you have a clarity of thought that strengthens everything you do.”
John C. Maxwell

“There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill.”
Nelson Mandela

“Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“The best solution is to be kind and good while ignoring the opinions of others.”
Leo Tolstoy

“I am what I am.........both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me and treated me badly. Nelson Mandela”
Nelson Mandela

“Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
Albert Einstein

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.” 
Thomas A. Edison

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
Abraham Lincoln

“The climb upward will be easier if you take others along with you.”
Napoleon Hill

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