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“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life."
Nelson Mandela

"Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I...”
Leo Tolstoy

“We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.”
Billy Graham

“Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Todo lo que hagas en la vida será insignificante, pero es importante que lo hagas.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” —CLARE BOOTHE LUCE When things go wrong, when you experience sudden reversals and disappointments, your natural tendency will be to respond with negativity, fear, and anger. Whenever you feel hurt or threatened by loss or criticism, you react to protect yourself with the fight-or-flight response. As a leader, your first job is to take firm control over your mind and emotions, and then to take control over the situation, in that order. Leaders focus on the future, not the past. They focus on what can be done now to resolve the problem or improve the situation. They focus on what is under their control, their next decisions and actions. You must do the same.”
Brian Tracy

“This helps me ‘keep the main thing, the main thing,’ since I am so easily distracted.” You may want to do something similar,
John C. Maxwell

“Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection”
Israelmore Ayivor

“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
Barack Obama

“When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.”
Albert Einstein

“It is very helpful for us to remember that “hurting people hurt people.” I don’t think very many people wake up every day with the thought in mind of purposely seeing how much they can hurt everyone in their life, yet that is often exactly what they do. Why? Usually because they are hurting and have unresolved issues in their own life.”
Joyce Meyer

“Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.”
Billy Graham

“Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.”
C.S. Lewis

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