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“When I didn't have friends, I had books.”
Oprah Winfrey

“It may sound corny, but it's really true: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
John C. Maxwell

“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.”
Mother Teresa

“A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Envy asks, “Why them? Why do they get what I don’t have?” Gratitude asks, “Why me? Why do I get all that I have?”
Rick Warren

“Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.”
Billy Graham

“We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.”
Ben Carson

“I have noticed that sometimes, our success, promotion and accomplishments become real when we say "no" to some things and act the right way. The potential that drives you to do that is called "self-discipline".”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.” 
Israelmore Ayivor

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”
Ben Carson

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.” 
Napoleon Hill

“rise beyond your circumstances
John C. Maxwell

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