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Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If you want to see the beauty of any fish, throw it into the water, you will see how best it can swim because that is its source. Do you want to see the beauty in you? Don't look in the mirror, don't put on makeups, no jewelleries or expensive designer clothes, just go back and reconnect to your source and I bet, the best of you will show up. Until you return back to God, your best won't come out because He is your source.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Wisdom is the mother of solutions. You cannot upgrade in wisdom and lack solutions and you cannot have a wisdom and be stranded in any challenge you face.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If want to become a person with vision, get back and reconnect to your source.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Negative prophecies are reversible. The Lord reveals to conquer. You are created to reverse any negative with your prayers and the word of God.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wisdom. In all your getting get wisdom first.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
You cannot use another man's leg to run your race. Wives stop waiting for your husbands to do everything. For God's sake make an impact. Nobody is a threat to your development.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Faith is never connected to safe. There is no faith without tension. For a rubber band to function to it's elasticity, it has to experience a tension. Saints of God who has no tension has no function.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
People would want to get safe and come to Christ because they see the evidence in your life not because you quote the scriptures to them.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
There's supposed to be more value in your life than spending more than sixty hours in a week in a place you don't care about and in an environment they don't care about you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If satan succeds in blinding your mind, he has succeeded in arresting you because anything that can stop you from believing can stop your future.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
No satan can unsettle what God has settled.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Without you discovering your true picture, it will be hard to have a glorious future. It is the discovery of what you have inside and the pursuit of it that can guarantee a glorious future
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
It is impossible to enjoy divine protection without the word of God. You must be a word addict.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The church preach so much about power in the kingdom of God but we don't talk about wisdom. Everybody goes for power forgeting that power without wisdom can be disastrous.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Blind minds are worst than blind eyes. That you have eyes does not mean that you have vision. Visionaries do not look they see whlie people look.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Do you want to acquire God's own wisdom? Relate with the Holy Spirit. Be a seeker of divine guidance by the Holy Spirit. You can't be a man or woman of solution without God.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The world is full of problems and I bet you the problems will continue to exist but what will make you relevant to the world is when you have answers to the questions the world asks. You can only be useful when you have the answers to the questions of the world. The best way you provide solutions and answers to those challenges is through wisdom.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
People with vision sees opportunity where there is problem. They see money not problem.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I think it will be better if we can live our life as if Christ is going to return today and plan our live as if it is hundred years off. Keep living, serving and most of all be prepared.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Wherever problem persist, wisdom is lacking. There is no problem anywhere except wisdom problem. Wisdom provides solutions where there is complications.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy and his followers do the same. Be watchful and keep that in mind.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
SOUL SHINEYou know that thingYou do so well,That little sparkYou hideIn the dark,That you thinkNobody knows about –ButYou?Well,Did you knowThatThere'sA gleamThat you beamWhen you talkOr doAnything,That everyoneKnows about –ButYou?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I love being high. High on Life, High on Love, High on Hope, and High on Faith.
— Imania Margria
When we can see the star of desire in our sky, we can use our wings of hope and our air of love to reach it.
— Imania Margria
There are so many things that we learn in our lives most of which we can't learn without seeing the hearts of others.
— Imania Margria
Do you know who are Awesome?Those who Believe in themselves.
— Mohith Agadi
Living on Faith.Striving on Desire. Flying on Hope.
— Imania Margria
Don't try to reach perfection. Just try to reach an inner and outer realization of self.
— Imania Margria
To dream is to desire, to desire is to long for, to long for is to want, and to want you must work to attain all you dream of, desire, long for and want.
— Imania Margria
People will let you down in this business every single day. I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired. This is mine. What's yours?
— Jenna Mullins, Rules of Seduction
You know we are living in dangerous time when the act of kindness is revered as an act of heroism.
— Micheline Jean Loui
Even though it may look like the wicked is gaining ground, God is still in control. We need to pray for our nations, pray for others, pray for forgiveness and mercy over people. We need to love no matter who we are talking to, whether they are Atheist, Moslems, Lesbians, Homosexuals or Pagans. We need to love them and share the love of God with them and not judge and see if we can rebuild our broken nations.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. ...those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Sure we all need money but what do you really focus on? It is a matter of the heart. If your thoughts are on material and worldly things, no good fruits can come out of it.Seek the kingdom of God first and the other things shall be added unto you not vice versa.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If you can't build with them don't chill with them.
— Moosa Rahat
If all you are looking for is a miracle you are wide open to follow the antichrist and the false prophets because they are going to have a big league of signs and wonders ministry.If signs and wonders do not bring glory and honour to Jesus Christ, then you must be watching a false prophet whose anointing does not come from the Holy Spirit of God.
— Patience Johnson
Speak positive affirmations into fruition. For instance, if you feel frustrated or anxious, you can say, “I am calm, and I can work through my situation to arrive at a positive outcome,” or “I am at peace with all things in my life, and success finds me easily.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR, Live Self-Sufficiently: The 12 Step Living Guide
The past ruins the present to destroy the future. Take charge of the NOW.
— RVM
The truth for every superhero is that beneath the greatest pain lies the greatest power.
— Frederick Espiritu, The Path to Awesomeness: Becoming Super, Being Human
I will follow my visions and dreams, no matter what...
— Barun Singhania
LOVE is meant to make you Happy, not sad. What's the use of Love, if it makes you mad!
— RVM
Hope, strive and try to be more like Christ until the day we will see Him. Let Him find you faithfully and in obedient serving Him. He is coming quicker than people think.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The closer we try to get to God, the more we will hate to sin in our own lives, the more we are saddened by the thoughts that runs through our minds. I also think that the more we draw closer to God, the more God will honour us and will open doors for the right things to happen in our life.
— Patience Johnson
I have the mind of Christ. The best life you could ever live is the one that your creator destined you for. The one He made you for. He has given us everything we need ......... to become like Him. To reach to your potentials. Worship Him in spirit and in truth.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
When we are preoccupied with wealth and material acquisitions, it chokes God's word in us and makes it unfruitful. But if we follow His plan of being prosperous you will enjoy the blessings of this life.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Our life is not in stuff, focus your attention on Christ where it should be. Prosperity and wealth has damaged the body of Christ. God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children but don't replace him with material.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Someone who lives meaningfully for 30 years has lived a much longer Life than one who drifted through Life for 60 years.-RVM
— RVM
Get excited about life!
— John Di Lemme
The Wind that Blows, the Water that Flows, the Sun that Glows, are all proof that a Power exists. Believe and Experience the Universal Power.
— RVM
Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.
— Kamand Kojouri
The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.
— Kamand Kojouri
Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.
— Richie Norton
Motivating others leads to success whereas inspiring others leads to greatness.
— Ken Poirot
Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us.
— Nikki Rowe
The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.
— Kamand Kojouri
Measuring your limits is only possible with the unit called Imagination.
— Mohith Agadi
You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.
— Kamand Kojouri
let's forget the hope, it's the secondary thing to motivate.the primary one is to approach for it.
— kurbhatt
No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Don't let God be the co-author of your life.
— Stephanie Faith
Don't just Hurry, don't just Haste. Don't just Worry, don't just Waste. Life is a Treasure, Enjoy the Pleasure.- RVM
— RVM
I don't guarantee you to be a good man,I promise you will be a better man
— Unknown
You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY.-RVM
— RVM
Those who have the FREEDOM to Row can get to where they want to Go!- RVM
— RVM
What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up.
— Deyth Banger
To reach your Destination, you need a Direction, but you can't get there without Inspiration!- RVM
— RVM
Even with all the Lace, you can't be an Ace without God's grace.- RVM
— RVM
He is a true King who has the Freedom to do anything!- RVM
— RVM
You can never go back.Never.Not if you want to survive.
— Tilly Bagshawe, Friends and Rivals
Allow yourself the Freedom to Fail before you see Success Sail!-RVM
— RVM
Celebrate Life. To truly live, Celebrate each day of Life. Let each day be a Festival of Joy.-RVM
— RVM
Don’t measure how far still you’ve got to go, but how far you’ve already gone to get to the point where you are now.
— Frederick Espiritu, The Path to Awesomeness: Becoming Super, Being Human
You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.
— Clifford Cohen
There are times when God draws us into the wilderness but He does so for a purpose and never with the intention that we make permanent camp there.
— Katherine J. Walden, Dare to Call Him Friend
Have you ever paused to be Grateful? For eyes to see, nose to smell, ears to hear, tongue to taste, hands to feel, head to think and heart to love?
— RVM
Dance less in motion and more in spirit
—  awaken the dreamer within.
Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.
— Shah Asad Rizvi
When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.
— Shah Asad Rizvi
The secret of making lasting change is to acknowledge and accept that real change takes time and patience. We didn't get chronically ill overnight. We didn't gain weight in one week or even one month. Good chance, it may take us longer than twenty-one days to overcome whatever we're facing. Whether it's something physical, emotional, spiritual, or a combination, we may need to be realistic in our goals for meaningful change to happen. The first step is getting started!
— Dana Arcuri, Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach
—  as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.
Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and don't allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.
— Shah Asad Rizvi
I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. If I don’t have real answers, it is because we still don’t know what questions to ask. Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motivations selfish.
— Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,
— Shah Asad Rizvi
This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
You ain't get nothing for staying low, lazy. The world only tremble at the feet of the few craziest doers ever lived.
— Olawale Daniel
Sacred joy exists in any suffering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Given the opportunity to help us with our dreams, the Universe does not disappoint.
— Maggie Denhearn
Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.
— Andy Andrews
Tranquility is a Choice. So is Anxiety. The entire world around us may be in Turmoil. But if we want to be Peaceful within, WE CAN.- RVM
— RVM
No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!
— Amit  Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager's Growth Mantra
To go somewhere, start going.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is fearless battle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't live a dull boring life. Spice it up. Have u realized that you wont live forever.-RVM
— RVM
Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.-RVM
— RVM
Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born!-RVM
— RVM
People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage. Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms.
— Saru Singhal
...man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey...
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
With Inspiration, Liberation and Determination, you can reach any Destination.-RVM
— RVM
Many people will try to Sell you a Dream, its Your place to let them know you Already have one!
— Kalon Jackson
I'm Blunt because God rolled me that way
— Kalon Jackson
Move on, don’t let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on.- RVM
— RVM
The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.
— David Bayles Art and Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking
Guilt is motherfucker,... it takes everything motivation, aspiration and soul. (Kill Game 2015)
— Deyth Banger
You can't move things by not moving.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Pat yourself on the back when you win.And when you don't, just keep moving!So long as you don't stop moving,Soon you may realize just how close you are to winning!
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
We all have the power within us, to make something of ourselves, the thing is very few believe it.
— Nikki Rowe
Search, search.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hearts shall dance once again
—  when canvas of ice is painted with the brush of skates.
The peace within can calm every stormy waves.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
— Walter Isaacson, American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no limit to what you can do, be determined!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you are angry, be still and do not speak.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only thing that belongs to us is our LIFE. Yet, we waste it in the pursuit of meaningless things that will never belong to us.- RVM
— RVM
What you do with ease is your passion. It is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream .
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Passion is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves.
— RVM
The different sacred gifts serve a divine purpose.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live daringly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You might be on the right track, but you can't just stand there!
— Samer Chidiac
Sometimes you can't walk your dream journey. Find a way!
— Samer Chidiac
When you dive into your past, remember to go back up quickly.
— Samer Chidiac
The Gift of Life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure . . . some with Pleasure!-RVM
— RVM
There is nothing more fascinating than the fusion between power and mystery in our great, little treasure: the human brain.
— Hajar Charkaoui
The Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra-Growth in an enterprise is created through remarkable achievements, not incremental achievements like efficiency or effectiveness.-Remarkable achievements are possible only in complexity.-Only volitional engagement can work in complexity. Luckily, there is no certainty in complexity. Hence, motivational engagement cannot work.-People who make choices based on the purpose can only be volitionally engaged—they are the growth managers, the leaders.
— Amit  Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager's Growth Mantra
You must be willing to play with Failure before you reach Success.-RVM
— RVM
You ought to explore, search and seek the boundless possibilities in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I seek daily a spiritual awaken of my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Search and seek the spirituality of being!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No outside events can disturb your inner peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The full length of a frog doesn't have to be seen when it's dead. It has to be seen when it jumps. Aim for greater heights always.
— Constance Chuks Friday
The power of imagination is the center of all attractions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not rush in the ride of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The hate in heart can consume you not outside events.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't be so busy making a living that you forget to enjoy your Life. Today, make a commitment to Enjoy Life.
— RVM
When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We can get the task done without being paid.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All I had was a dream and six million pounds.'Denholm, The IT Crowd
— G. Linehan
Love, faith and hope can cure any ill-health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I can’t help but to wonder and write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are endless opportunities in life. You have to explore, search and seek the diverse options.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are confident, you have the courage for existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can survive and strive in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you listen to music daily, you find strength of survival.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The words you speak into your life are the fountain you swim it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can renew your spirit and strength, if you take time to rest your soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May your heart be melted with faith, love and hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we can accept reality as it is and are okay with it without needing to change it, we then can begin to take steps toward creating a brighter reality for ourselves and others, coming from a place of understanding. But when we are motivated to change reality due to our discomfort with it, we do not think clearly. The reason that there is so much suffering in the world is because people are too busy judging everyone and everything, and through the judgments they perpetuate the suffering. People are so focused on changing outside conditions, all the while forgetting the judgment and separation within their own heart.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Optimism is the spirit of confident soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope gives happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Look forward, in the direction of sunshine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.
— Ernest Barbaric
It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.
— Amit Ray
Do not prove but be yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jealousy is a detestable motive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The joy of a simple life is the greatest satisfaction.
— Laila Ibrahim
QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things
— Richie Norton
don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. for success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by - product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it
— Victor Frankl
When you pursue your goals with passion, you will attract people who love you; but you’ll also attract haters. I’m okay with that; I welcome it. I don’t want to live life as a spectator. I’ve learned that if no one is cheering you on and/or booing you; it means you're not in the game.
— Steve Maraboli
Have a dream or vision? Keep striving toward it, never give up on it, pray about it and ask God to bless it. And no matter who doesn't believe or understand it, it's because it’s not for them, it's for YOU.
— Pauline Seaport
I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Anyone can exist. Most fools do. It takes guts to truly Live. -RVM
— RVM
Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day. Commit to put JOY in whatever comes your way. You may be hurt by what people say, but don’t let anyone spoil your Day.- RVM
— RVM
Love enriches my heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy.- RVM
— RVM
What is the Power that transcends one from Achievement to Fulfillment? The Power of Inspiration!- RVM
— RVM
Your future is brighter than your past was dark.
— Toni Sorenson
Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
What matters is not how many miles you run… What matters is whether you are having Fun! -RVM
— RVM
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. - RVM
— RVM
It’s a bet – the more you Give, the more you will Get.-RVM
— RVM
You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.
— Toni Sorenson
The mouth speaks from well spring of the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every tree is known by its fruits. So a man is known his deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The peace within you is stronger than any storm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Explore the extent of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.- RVM
— RVM
Progress isn't about how fast or how far you are moving, it's about the direction your heart and body is pointed. Keep those aimed at your truest north and you'll get to where you want to be.
— Toni Sorenson
We avoid risks in life only to die, and end up facing the greatest risk which is having lived life risking nothing at all.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.
— Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give, the last one you get.
— Unknown
I love deeply and daringly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I promise you that the moment you unwaveringly commit to your own vision, seen and unseen powers will unite to make that vision a reality.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Our lives reflect our inner image. If we think we’re worth it, that worth will manifest in our lives. If we think we’re not worthy, we’ll live in lack. Believe your worth it and you will become worth it.
— Toni Sorenson
There can be no belief if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Abhinav Bhalla
Regardless of your past, of your own beliefs, I promise you that you are worthy of the remarkable life you so want to live.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
The limit in life is the only limit you set.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
— Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can’t get into your brain unless you open the door.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
I challenge you to destroy whatever roadblock is keeping you from moving forward. Destroy it with your physical body if you must, but first, destroy it with a power greater than a nuclear bomb—the power of your mind. Think it gone and it will go.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Here’s the three-ingredient recipe for a glorious day: think a higher thought, move your feet forward, serve someone you’ve never served. Do those three things and your life will improve in a millisecond.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Service is the key to self-discovery of full strength
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I’ve never liked the term ‘actor’.” Barron spoke slowly, joining hands with the cast members to his left and right. The rest of them formed a circle, also holding hands, and he continued. “Seriously now, is anyone here ‘acting’? Is anyone here pretending? “Me, I’m a theater director. One hundred percent, all the time. I’m not pretending, or acting, or trying to fool anyone. This is what I do, and I give it my all—just like you. I look around me, and I don’t see a single phony. I see people who give their hearts, their minds, and their very lives to being serious performers on the stage. In the last weeks I’ve watched every one of you give up the easy life to come here and bust a gut to make this show a reality. “That’s why I call you performers. Not actors—performers. Because when it’s time to prepare, you work out every nuance of a role. When it’s time to step in front of the crowd, you reach out and pull them in with both hands. When it’s time to say your lines, you deliver them with skill and meaning. That’s performance. And there’s nothing phony about that. There’s nothing pretend about that. There’s no acting that will take the place of that. “And so that’s my wish for you tonight: Have a great performance. You’ve done the work, you’re ready, and now it’s time to show off. Have fun out there, gang. Perform.” --Jerome Barron's opening night pep talk to the cast of Death Troupe
— Vincent H. O'Neil, Death Troupe
Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everything, you become nothing. -RVM
— RVM
May you great success in all your daring adventures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Success doesn’t come from motivation. It comes from Inspiration. -RVM
— RVM
Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More…Live More! -RVM
— RVM
Gratitude is continuous stream of goodness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Go for broke, my friends. Straighten your spine when you step to the podium. Trust your own tongue. Believe that your weary legs will hold you until you reach the finish line. And reach it you will if you give it your all. Fall if you must, crawl if you must, but don’t you dare give up or give in until you’ve made it to the end. For at the end is where your great reward will be to begin anew. A new chance. A new life. A new you.
— Toni Sorenson
My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To live with Faith, eliminate Fear. Only one can exist in our Life at any point of time. -RVM
— RVM
Staying locked into an image of how things are supposed to be can blind us to the grace of what is.
— Elaine Orabona Foster, In Movement There Is Peace
High demands and expectations without skill development, encouragement or the feeling of a “win” will lead to resentment. Demanding perfection is exhausting on the part of the person making the demands and on the person of whom the perfection is demanded.
— Daniel Bates, When Parenting Backfires: Twelve Thinking Errors that Undermine Parents Effectiveness
There are many ways to love, but mutually is the luckiest.
— Shampa Sharma
Pray, which day is not a women's day!?!
— Shampa Sharma
I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.
— Justin Alcala, The Devil in the Wide City
Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.
— Richie Norton
I respect the decision of others.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your Presentation is Your Capability.
— Aayushi Jain
Don't ever let your day end in "could haves" and "should haves." Life is meant to be one experience after another. Say yes to everything that is good for you.
— Toni Sorenson
The inner being is a divine soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest tragedy in your life will not be the death of a loved one or a natural disaster; those things hurt like hell and devastate to the core. But loss like that is part of life. What’s not necessary and is therefore most tragic is the demise of your truest identity, your dying before you’re dead, the moments when you let the words and judgments of others define who you are instead of rising above that pain to be the person you were meant to be. No matter what has happened in your past, you are still capable of becoming a better version of who you are at this moment. Think right. Believe the voice inside of you that speaks the truth. You are a divine marvel. Act like it. Live like it.
— Toni Sorenson
How much you achieve in Life is not as important as how much you enjoy each moment of Life.-RVM
— RVM
Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.
— Solange nicole
We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.
— Daniel Kahneman
I've really learned to appreciate the magic of challenging yourself. Seeing yourself somewhere new. There's a whole world out there.
— Stacie Hammond, Ana J. Awakens
If we are what we repeatedly do, how many times did you express gratitude today? Showing that you're grateful is the only way to be a grateful human being. Saying the words is not enough; you have demonstrate it through deeds.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
He never looked back, the day he realized the power of presentations.
— Aayush Jain
At the end of the day we’re all reactive personalities. We just don’t know it until we meet the right catalyst.
— Michelle Painchaud
It's not just the thought we think that matter; it's how we think them, how long we think them, and how often we think them. A thought has to be thought again and again in order for it to embed in our brains. So to fade a thought or get rid of it altogether, stop thinking it.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
INTROSPECT. Dive deep into your own Life and think...Think..."How have I lived ?" "How can I make my Life better?" -RVM
— RVM
The origin of the word fail means to stop functioning. So as long as you haven't stopped, you haven't failed.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
There are just two ways in life..either you do it or you don't!!
— Tripta Arora, The Beauty of Imperfection
No one creates a perfect resume on their first try.
— Matthew T.  Cross, The Resume Design Book: How to Write a Resume in College & Influence Employers to Hire You [Color Edition]
Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Happiness is not something you pursue, it is a state of mind and a feeling of positivity, within.
— Amitav Chowdhury
Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.-RVM
— RVM
Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.
— Richie Norton
Nothing worth doing's ever easy.
— Tammy J. Coulter
Everyone will grow older, but few will grow wiser.
— Syed Ahmad Fathi
People lose their way when they lose their why.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your life looks like a prison because you focus on the things you wish you had and thus don’t appreciate what you already have.So why don’t you try to see the abundance in your life? Because, if you haven’t noticed, you’ve got many things to thank for. Just look around.
— Lidiya K., This Moment
Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don't you know it's enough if all you do is breathe?
— Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders
Depression is state of deep anxiety. It is better to pray about everything than worry about nothing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
New thinking doesn't mean shuffling your old thoughts around; it means getting rid of the old and implementing the new. That way your, "I can't" become "I can!" and "I did!
— Toni Sorenson
While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Believe in your sacred self: strength of your being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May the Lord deliver us from every danger.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
— Ezra Taft Benson
House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
I don't believe in the word " incurable " I believe to find a cure we need to deconstruct the cause.
— Nikki Rowe
Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Do not forget the joy of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Once you learn how to straighten out your thinking, your life straightens out. Problems that were too complicated to deal with have solutions. There's peace where there was chaos because there's power where there was weakness. A strong life begins with a strong thought. A healthy life begins in a clean brain.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
...if people do things for lunk-headed, backward-looking reasons, why wouldn't we also do things for significance-seeking, self-actualizing reasons? If we are predictably irrational - and we clearly are- why couldn't we also be predictably transcendent?
— Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Fair mindedness doesn't require a lot of thought, it requires a lot of bravery.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
You can't wear your brain out by overusing it.
— Toni Sorenson
To have a flexible, open, clean mind, you have to do three things: exercise it, accept new ideas, clear out the clutter. Be willing to change your mind when it needs changing.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
You can't have a great life unless you move two things: your body AND your mind. Keep them both exercised by taking them places they've never before been.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
I will never be a loser. Never. Because I will never stop trying to be better.
— Toni Sorenson
In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.
— Sira Masetti
Weight gains aren't failures – they're learning curves.
— Rachel  Stevenson, Reshaping Rachel
The mightiest flame of fire lies in positive mindset.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never settle up for something that is lesser than what you expected.
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Imagination can take you to any place of interest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The human spirit holds remarkable strength, in times of adversity and pain, some stand taller after they've fallen proving that you can't measure a want, a desire or a dream on the logic of physical reality.
— Nikki Rowe
Start anywhere, with whatever is in front of you. The key is to begin - and to trust that as long as you’re putting one foot in front of the other, eventually you'll get to where you need to, or at the very least, much farther than you had initially imagined.
— Geetanjali Mukherjee, Anyone Can Get An A+: How To Beat Procrastination, Reduce Stress and Improve Your Grades
Life is too short to spend even one day in misery.-RVM
— RVM
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Shine thy light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Begin to study. You can master any field of choice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never forget the life experiences
—  Aloneness and companionship.Cold and warmth.Hard times and good times.Failure and success.Pain and healing.Planting and harvesting.Poverty and prosperity.Searching and finding.Sorrow and happiness.Tears and joy.
Be sacred soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again. -RVM
— RVM
Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die—what makes this any different from a half hour?
— Leo Tolstoy
Motivation is a state of mind, just like discouragement.
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
Don’t just GO through life, GROW through it. For Life comes to you only once, never to return! Climb the Ladder of Life, step by step.-RVM
— RVM
Life Begins at the end of your comfort zone.
— INTERNET
What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our motivation to live through every tribulations.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Inspiration is that Power that makes you Seek and reach the Peak.-RVM
— RVM
If you want something bad enough, then do something about it!
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
in our life many moments which can only be set-forth as best and described as perfect, only these are the moments that you wish were rooted in heart, in mind, in time, and effectively ignore all kind of cruelty and sadness this world has to offer. Unfortunately we can not prevent it from our life, because fortunate or unfortunate finally we’re all going to have to live it. And as perfect as a moment is, don’t be shocked, don't be scared to let it go and confront the world with your true-cent, with your positive impact and move forward in this unstable/unexpected journey of life. As appealing it is to have that one moment where life made sense and beautiful frozen in time, remember that there are many more ‘perfect’ moments fabricated on your way waiting for you…to sweep over the challenges of life to make each moment worth it..
— rahul kushwaha
The mightiest flame of fire lies positive mindset.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.
— Matt      Chandler
I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul.
— Oksana Rus
Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame.
— Nikki Rowe
Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.
— Shampa Sharma
Everything good starts with caring.
— Shampa Sharma
When you love your work, it works better.
— Shampa Sharma