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“You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts; expose and share them freely!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve people. ”
Leo Tolstoy

“Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.”
Leo Tolstoy

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.”
T.D. Jakes

“When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don’t give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.”
John C. Maxwell

“Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.”
Leo Tolstoy

“We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.” 
Ben Carson

“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”
John C. Maxwell

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”
C.S. Lewis

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” That can happen only when the leader is willing to hear and face the truth.”
John C. Maxwell

“But it was not only by this feeling, as Varvara thought, that he was guided. Mingling with his pride, with his need always to be first, was another motive, at which Varvara did not guess - a truly religious urge. His disillusionment in Mary (his betrothed), whom he had imagined such a saint, his feeling of outrage was so cruel that he sank into despair; and despair led him - whither? To God, to the faith of his childhood, which had never lost its hold upon him.
Leo Tolstoy

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

“sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.”
T.D. Jakes

“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see.”
C.S. Lewis

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