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“It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.”
C.S. Lewis

“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
Leo Tolstoy

“However, if you fail to prepare, you will either go through stress to win your race or you may quit when the battle becomes tougher than you ever imagined.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?”
John C. Maxwell

“What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.”
Frank Herbert

“Position is a poor substitute for influence.”
John C. Maxwell

“Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.”
Leo Tolstoy

“NBA superstar David Robinson remarked, “I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don’t win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.”
John C. Maxwell

“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. ”
George Washington

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
Nelson Mandela

“We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.” 
T.D. Jakes

“What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain. The problems that make you want to throw up your hands and holler “Mercy!” will build your tenacity, courage, discipline, and determination.”
Oprah Winfrey

“if the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism
Barack Obama

“Truth is like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it”
Mahatma Gandhi

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