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“All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.”
Zig Ziglar

“Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal.”
John C. Maxwell

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . ”
Napoleon Hill

“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”
Frank Herbert

“It’s so important for you to get around people who will stir up those seeds of greatness. Don’t surround yourself with naysayers. Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, cynical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people. . . . Did I leave out anything?”
Joel Osteen

“Asking and hearing people’s opinions has a greater effect on them than telling them, ‘Good job.’ ”
John C. Maxwell

“Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don't smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your joy is divine.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. ”
C.S. Lewis

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
C.S. Lewis

“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.”
Leo Tolstoy

“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there.  At least that's what I would choose to believe.”
Barack Obama

“The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.”
Frank Herbert

“The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Satan’s method has often been to imitate God. Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.”
Billy Graham

“By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
C.S. Lewis

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