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“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.”
― John C. Maxwell

“but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein

“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

“Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.”
― George Washington

“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”
― Joel Osteen

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
― Bruce Lee

“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“You can change direction if you feel like you have missed your way... Decide to do that now! Go back a little more and begin from where you missed it out! If only you are ready to rise again, you can make a right decision in that tight belly of the shark. Jonah did that earlier!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“As a leader, you should not be trying to carry everything yourself. To be successful, you must share the load. But you must have highly capable people to hand things off to.”
― John C. Maxwell

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It may shock some parents to learn that we don’t own our children. God has given them to us in trust . . . however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.”
― Billy Graham

“Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.”
― Ben Carson

“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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