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Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour. --Israelmore Ayivor I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you. --Michael Bassey Johnson Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. --Rebecca West Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders. --Israelmore Ayivor Contrary t...

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. --Gandhi When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money. --Artemus Ward He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. --Eleanor Roosevelt Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. --P.T Barnum Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. --Franklin D. Roosevelt Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. --Norman Vincent Peale If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. --Simone Weil It’s good to have money and the thi...

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Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. --Violeta Parra If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it. --Anonymous Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing. --Unknown I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. --Unknown If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place! --Thomas Hardy There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you. --Marian Anderson Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. --Martin Buxbaum The men wh...

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. --Theodore Roosevelt I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view because deep down you know you can’t win. It’s better to assert yourself and tell the person you are moving on without them and why, rather than leave a lasting impression of cowardness on your part in a person’s mind by avoiding them. --Shannon L. Alder The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. --Criss Jami Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until...

1. “That’s someone’s daughter.” This is something I will always hold dear to my heart. My father has a great way of putting things into perspective for me. He made me realize that every girl in this world is not only someone’s daughter, but also a child of God. I should always treat women the same way I would hope someone to treat my future daughter. 2. “Keep your hands to yourself.”  If you’re not married to her, keep your hands off her. That was the broken record that constantly played within my head. I understood where my father was coming from, and our foundation of faith definitely played an important role in keeping this standard true. None of us are perfect, but the strive for purity is something my father would constantly embed into my brain. He understood the reality of sex in today’s culture, and encouraged me to always try and live above the world’s standard of what is normal 3. “Walk her to the door.” Chivalry 101. Walk your lady to her door, and then make sure she gets...

An example of what can go wrong when decisions are made on the basis of poor information is evident in the purchase of Rolls–Royce Motor Cars. Volkswagen and BMW battled each other to purchase Rolls Royce from Vickers PLC. And Volkswagen won the battle, paying $780 million for the Luxury auto – making company. But after the purchase was finalized, the buyers made a shocking discovery. Volkswagen owned the company, but not the rights to the name Rolls – Royce, which is synonymous with luxury cars around the world. The license for the name, it turned out, belonged to another company: Rolls–Royce PLC, an aerospace company. Even worse, Rolls–Royce PLC had ties to BMW. Guess who received permission to use the name? BMW– not Volkswagen. And it all happened because of poor information gathering. It was Benjamin Disraeli who said, "The most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." Mathew Ashimolowo added, "Being current is the currency of life....

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey. --Steve Maraboli If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. --Paulo Coelho As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place. --Henri J.M. Nouwen If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. --Tucker Max We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own. --C...

For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others. --Sam Levenson In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. --Elizabeth Gilbert A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, wh...

It's deliberate to heard one say and think that every maturity deals with age. Rather it is an ingredient of maturity and not the source of maturity. Maturity is an experience built by attitude. You can be believed to be mature in age, and not in mind. I had a chat with my friend and I noticed he is mature in mind and not in age. Let's face reality. Your manner of approach to situational change - is as a result of maturity. Mature people are endowed to handle issue that affect them. 'Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within bounds of dignity.' --Samuel Ullman Learning maturity is understanding better the world around with clear consciousness. When maturity cluster with knowledge one attains greatness with ease. I noticed exceptional leaders has the wisdom and maturity to use their ability wisely. Speaking is an ingredient of maturity because when mature leader speak the audience pay rapt attention to him. The influence driven by...

Donors have little way to assess your charity’s work; they use the service you provide to them as a surrogate. – Adrian Sargeant In good times and bad, we know that people give because you meet needs, not because you have needs. – Kay Sprinkel Grace We don’t work in the non-profit sector. We work in the for-change sector! – Unknown I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. --Henry David Thoreau A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between t...

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. --Umberto Eco Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. --Markus Zusak To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away. --Christopher Hitchens I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. M...

 In a forest, a pregnant deer is about to give birth.  She finds a remote grass field near a strong-flowing river.  This seems a safe place.  Suddenly labour pains begin.  At the same moment, dark clouds gather around above & lightning starts a forest fire.  She looks to her left & sees a hunter with his bow extended pointing at her.  To her right, she spots a hungry lion approaching her.  What can the pregnant deer do?  She is in labour!  What will happen?  Will the deer survive?  Will she give birth to a fawn?  Will the fawn survive?  Or will everything be burnt by the forest fire?  Will she perish to the hunters' arrow?  Will she die a horrible death at the hands of the hungry lion approaching her?  She is constrained by the fire on the one side & the flowing river on the other & boxed in by her natural predators.  What does she do?  She focuses on giv...

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved. --C. JoyBell C. You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this. --C. JoyBell C They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply ...

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. --Albert Einstein Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. --Clarence Darrow We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been...

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. --Narcotics Anonymous The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. --George Carlin The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you. --Rita Mae Brown Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. --Edgar Allan Poe We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. --Johann Wolfgang THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. --Hunter S. Thompson One ough...

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great. --Alex Harris Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over. --Joyce Meyer Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? --John Wesley The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. --Criss Jami They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. --Lorrie Moore The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs t...

The Top 17 Investing Quotes of All Time 1. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions. 2. "Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows." - Jim Rogers While 10-15 year lows are not common, they do happen. During these down times, don't be shy about going against the trend and investing; you could make a fortune by making a bold move - or lose your shirt. Remember quote #1 and invest in an industry you've researched thoroughly. Then, be prepared to see your investment sink lower before it turns around and starts to pay off. 3. "I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett Be prepared to invest in a do...

A long time ago in China, a girl named Li-Li got married and went to live with her husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Li-Li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother-in-law at all. Their personalities were very different, and Li-Li was angered by many of her mother-in-law’s habits. In addition, she criticized Li-Li constantly. Days passed days, and weeks passed weeks. Li-Li and her mother-in-law never stopped arguing and fighting. But what made the situation even worse was that, according to ancient Chinese tradition, Li-Li had to bow to her mother-in-law and obey her every wish. All the anger and unhappiness in the house was causing the poor husband great distress. Finally, Li-Li could not stand her mother-in-law’s bad temper and dictatorship any longer, and she decided to do something about it. Li-Li went to see her father’s good friend, Mr. Huang, who sold herbs. She told him the situation and asked if he would give her some poison so that she could sol...

Love is not an assignment for cowards. -Ovid Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -Friedrich Nietzsche Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -Henry Winkler A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -Elbert Hubbard You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. -Elizabeth Gilbert When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. -Donald Miller When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. -Deepak Chopra An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are ...

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. --Oscar Wilde Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. --Carl Sagan The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed? --Gordon B. Hinckley It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. --Voltaire there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will f...

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. --George R.R. Martin, People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility. --Katja Millay Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. --Sigmund Freud If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. --Steve Maraboli We seldom realize, for example t...

“There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.” – Mark Twain “Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan — create ten businesses.” – Robert Kiyosaki “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker “If plan “A” fails — remember you have 25 letters left.” – Chris Guillebeau “We make a living by what we get. But we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win — you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney “Believe that you will succeed — and you will.” – Dale Carnegie “Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” – Og Mandino “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach “Big pay and little responsibility are circu...