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What would be the natural thing? A man goes to college. He works as he wants to work, he plays as he wants to play, he exercises for the fun of the game, he makes friends where he wants to make them, he is held in by no fear of criticism above, for the class ahead of him has nothing to do with his standing in his own class. Everything he does has the one vital quality: it is spontaneous. That is the flame of youth itself. Now, what really exists?""...I say our colleges to-day are business colleges—Yale more so, perhaps, because it is more sensitively American. Let's take up any side of our life here. Begin with athletics. What has become of the natural, spontaneous joy of contest? Instead you have one of the most perfectly organized business systems for achieving a required result—success. Football is driving, slavish work; there isn't one man in twenty who gets any real pleasure out of it. Professional baseball is not more rigorously disciplined and driven than our 'amateur' teams. Add the crew and the track. Play, the fun of the thing itself, doesn't exist; and why? Because we have made a business out of it all, and the college is scoured for material, just as drummers are sent out to bring in business."Take another case. A man has a knack at the banjo or guitar, or has a good voice. What is the spontaneous thing? To meet with other kindred spirits in informal gatherings in one another's rooms or at the fence, according to the whim of the moment. Instead what happens? You have our university musical clubs, thoroughly professional organizations. If you are material, you must get out and begin to work for them—coach with a professional coach, make the Apollo clubs, and, working on, some day in junior year reach the varsity organization and go out on a professional tour. Again an organization conceived on business 
— Owen Johnson, Stover at Yale
Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result
— Vivek Thangaswamy
When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.
— Tracey Wilen, China for Businesswomen: A Strategic Guide to Travel, Negotiating, and Cultural Differences
Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.
— Ali Sheikh, Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
— Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
To earn more, you must learn more.
— Brian Tracy
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
— Brian Tracy
Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
— Brian Tracy
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.
— Brian Tracy
Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.
— Simon S. Tam
Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!
— Lorii Myers
The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.
— Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It’s intellectual masturbation.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The Tanakh teaches that, “The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor”. Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
Brockhurst, the champion of individualism, was soon launched on his favorite topic."The great fault of the American nation, which is the fault of republics, is the reduction of everything to the average. Our universities are simply the expression of the forces that are operating outside. We are business colleges purely and simply, because we as a nation have only one ideal—the business ideal.""That's a big statement," said Regan."It's true. Twenty years ago we had the ideal of the lawyer, of the doctor, of the statesman, of the gentleman, of the man of letters, of the soldier. Now the lawyer is simply a supernumerary enlisting under any banner for pay; the doctor is overshadowed by the specialist with his business development of the possibilities of the rich; we have politicians, and politics are deemed impossible for a gentleman; the gentleman cultured, simple, hospitable, and kind, is of the dying generation; the soldier is simply on parade.""Wow!" said Ricketts, jingling his chips. "They're off.""Everything has conformed to business, everything has been made to pay. Art is now a respectable career—to whom? To the business man. Why? Because a profession that is paid $3,000 to $5,000 a portrait is no longer an art, but a blamed good business. The man who cooks up his novel according to the weakness of his public sells a hundred thousand copies. Dime novel? No; published by our most conservative publishers—one of our leading citizens. He has found out that scribbling is a new field of business. He has convinced the business man. He has made it pay.
— Owen Johnson, Stover at Yale
No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more.
— Jeanne A. Estes, Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook
PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.
— Nancy Humphries
A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.
— John Kuypers, Who's The Driver Anyway?  Making the Shift to a Collaborative Team Culture
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
— Brian Tracy
A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.
— Michael E. Gerber
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
— Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
— Rachael Bermingham
Education is what you get from reading the small print
—  experience iswhat you get from not reading it.
If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value
— Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable. If dishonesty can live in a gorgeous palace with pictures on all its walls, and gems in all its cupboards, with marble and ivory in all its corners, and can give Apician dinners, and get into Parliament, and deal in millions, then dishonesty is not disgraceful, and the man dishonest after such a fashion is not a low scoundrel. Instigated, I say, by some such reflections as these, I sat down in my new house to write The Way We Live Now. And as I had ventured to take the whip of the satirist into my hand, I went beyond the iniquities of the great speculator who robs everybody, and made an onslaught also on other vices;--on the intrigues of girls who want to get married, on the luxury of young men who prefer to remain single, and on the puffing propensities of authors who desire to cheat the public into buying their volumes.
— Anthony Trollope, Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
— Michael E. Gerber, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
— Abraham Lincoln
Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?
— Joshua E. Leyenhorst
No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.
— Orrin Woodward
But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who don't care for money, but I never expected to meet one. Therefor I conclude that the difficulty concerns integrity. People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appauling obsession with personal integrity." - Vida Winter
— Diane Setterfield
I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.
— Kayla Curry
Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.
— Jim Holden, Power Base Selling: Secrets of an Ivy League Street Fighter
Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.
— Shel Silverstein
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
— Werner Herzog
Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
— Knut Hamsun, Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.
— Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines
A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?
— Israelmore Ayivor
Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?
— Israelmore Ayivor
Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!
— Israelmore Ayivor
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one.
— Faydra D. Fields
You MUST do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated.
— Faydra D. Fields
When you start with an insult and end with a compliment, most people only remember where you started.
— Faydra D. Fields
Giving does not only preceed receiving
—  it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.
Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
It's not always easy, but it's usually simple.
— Faydra D. Fields
If you have to tell them you are, you're usually not. It usually speaks for itself.
— Faydra D. Fields
Birth is to celebrate, death is to mourn - Menu 8 (Death: Loved Ones!)
— Santosh Avvannavar, God's Table: The Last Supper
It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Your decisions in hours of failure would determine whether you will forever be where you are or you will move out of that situation.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it's more likely to be processed rather than a whole food.
— Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you’re keeping score, you’ll lose at your own game.
— Faydra D. Fields
Keeping objects from your past comes with memories of your past. Let go of both to move on.
— Faydra D. Fields
Beware of those who would pay you lip service but refuse to put their money where their mouths are.
— Faydra D. Fields
Don't depend on anyone else to toot your horn. I mean, do you really want their lips on it, anyway?
— Faydra D. Fields
Stay off the bandwagon. More likely than not, your own way of getting there makes for a better journey.
— Faydra D. Fields
What you will endure determines what you will become.
— Faydra D. Fields
Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.
— Michele Poague, Heir to Power
Never underestimate the power of cookies.
— Marisa Baggett, Sushi Secrets: Easy Recipes for the Home Cook. Prepare delicious sushi at home using sustainable local ingredients!
Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you're unable to find your face in the dictionary, then take this opportunity to define yourself.
— Faydra D. Fields
Spending time being can be just as, if not more, fulfilling as spending time doing.
— Faydra D. Fields
If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title.
— Faydra D. Fields
Refuse to become a victim of your circumstances and give a lift to your potentials each and every day against the wish of any obstacle you encounter!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Don't sit on the fence
—  break it and move out! Don’t be confined to the little things you do
Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Anyone who refuses to make a choice has already made a wrong choice by allowing his life for chance to rule!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Remember, without a goal, your stamina is useless no matter how you get trained. You may defend your integrity and attack your obstacles, but when you have no target in focus, you will score many zero number of goals...
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
A path full of potholes must be traveled slowly, but there's no reason you can't finish the journey.
— Faydra D. Fields
Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If one day, God should mute all words, thoughts and actions, the world will look so different! If we are privileged to have them, let us try as possible as we can to use them well, for life will be something without words, thought and actions!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you hide the bodies of the problems, that's how you eventually amass skeletons in your closet.
— Faydra D. Fields
I love food, I love everything about food – the growing, the purchasing, the cooking, the eating, the nourishment, the connection, the celebration. To me, food is so central to everything important in life – how we eat and how we feed others is such a strong reflection on who we are, our values, and how we live. And we get to express and enjoy this three times every single day!
— Alyce Alexandra, Everyday Thermo Cooking: 100 Simple and Satisfying Real-Life Recipes from My Kitchen
The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind.
— Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Finding Gideon
DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Finding Gideon
It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.
— Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
Unless you're prepared to deal with the aftermath, never invite yourself to a situation where your presence is not requested or welcomed. Don't pull out a chair at someone else's table, then turn around and be hurt when you feel unwelcomed.
— Terry a O'Neal
You know you want meI can be your mouth's delightYou don't have to work hard to impress meMy price is just rightSo join me on this rideAnd let's get cheesy all day and night - Pizza
— Evy Michaels
You better go alone, than with negative people!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Serious people are not easily distracted!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
When nothing is done, nothing is won!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Accept corrections and you’ll improve and increase.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
The best questions attract the best answers!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Keep climbing
—  your fruits are on the top!
God’s on your side
—  be on God’s side!
Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Your own humility endorses your integrity!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
If people will be frank enough to tell you their heart issues, you will realize that there are so many things that will leave your jaws open! You will realize that things are just representing things under the sun. You will understand the realities and fantasies better and you will know how to deal with heart issues! You will know what true love is and you will get a better picture of pretense! You will understand the small things that mean a lot to so many people and you shall know the big things that mean nothing to so many people! You will know why people can’t sleep and you will know why so many people sleep soundly! You will understand the real reasons behind the attitude and behavior of people and you shall know the real meaning of wants and needs from the lenses of peoples heart! You will know why people give up and you will have a better understanding why some people dare unrelentingly to be remembered for something unique when you get to know things that are on people’s heart. The heart is a room with so many issues!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don’t just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
In his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson contrasts law and in the Congo in the early 16th century with law in Portugal and England. In those European countries, where the idea of private property was becoming powerful, theft was punishable brutally. In England, even as late as 1740, a child could be hanged for stealing a rag of cotton. But in the Congo, communal life persisted. The idea of private property was a strange one, and thefts were punished with fines or various degrees of servitude. A Congolese leader told of the Portuguese legal codes asked a Portuguese once, teasingly, 'What is the penalty in Portugal for anyone who puts his feet on the ground?
— Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.
— Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Our mind is a garden, our thoughts are the seeds. We can grow flowers or we can grow weeds. Don't forget to water it!
— Alston Gray, How to Own a Car on the Cheap (without sacrificing quality)
If you believe you can, you can; if you believe you can't, you can't.
— Alston Gray, How to Own a Car on the Cheap (without sacrificing quality)
Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long moment, her eyes shining. "I'm shutting up and listening." She draws the last word out so it hisses through the air. "I am the presidents, the kings, the prime ministers, the highs and the mighties—L-I-S-T-E-N!" She spells the word in the air. "The woman who made the baklava has something to say to you! Voilà! You see? Now what am I doing?" She picks up an imaginary plate, lifts something from it, and takes an invisible bite. Then she closes her eyes and says, "Mmm... That is such delicious Arabic-Jordanian-Lebanese-Palestinian baklawa. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! Please will you come to our home now and have some of our food?" She puts down the plate and brushes imaginary crumbs from her fingers. "So now what did I just do? "You ate some baklawa?" She curls her hand as if making a point so essential, it can be held only in the tips of the fingers. "I looked, I tasted, I spoke kindly and truthfully. I invited. You know what else? I keep doing it. I don't stop if it doesn't work on the first or the second or the third try. And like that!" She snaps the apron from the chair into the air, leaving a poof of flour like a wish. "There is your peace.
— Diana Abu-Jaber, The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
Don’t rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Each year comes with its own memories! Memories that make us ponder! Memories that shake our nerves and thought to think about things we did, things we could have done, things we should have done, the right time and timing for the yes and no we could have say with courage or humility, the right time and timing of our steps and things we should have never done! When you remember the year, you remember something! Something good or something bad!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Examine what is said, not him who speaks
— 1000AmazingProverbs
Don't work for money, work to learn
— An Igbo billionaire on CNN
If God is your coach, you score the most amazing and unbelievable goals
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The degree of concentration you give to your dream will determine your success percentage!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
In between waking up from bed in the morning and going back in the evening, let something happen. God will bless that “something” for you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Success doesn’t come with ease. As a matter of fact, the darkest lie you may have been told is that you will reap in abundance when you have sowed nothing. It is a big lie!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
What you are going to do today should assume a bigger shape than what you have done yesterday.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Bit by bit, whatever you see to be petty becomes plenty.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
To become a better you, don’t keep doing the same things all the time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Raise the bar for yourself, increase, improve and inspire others to do same. Never miss the success of each day!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Waste no time on what you don’t want. Go for what you want. Go for that alone.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Never give up on the fight until you win the belt.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Don’t go for good or better
—  the best is yours
something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is more sea in the Western than in the Eastern hemisphere. We say that the firmament is full of stars, as though it were equally full; but we know that there are more stars under the Northern than the Southern pole. We say the element of man are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal proportion of both, and the days of man vicissitudinary, as though he had as many good days as ill, and that he lived under a perpetual equinoctial, night and day equal, good and ill fortune in the same measure. But it is far from that; he drinks in misery, and he tastes happiness; he journeys in misery, he does but walk in happiness: and, which is worstn his misery is positive and dogmatical, his happiness is but disputable and problematical: all men call misery misery, but happiness changes the name by the taste of man.
— John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Do what you have to do as you must do it, and exert all your noble strength in doing it in so far as it pleases God, and give less attention to the approval or disapproval of men, though put their thoughts into consideration and take the lessons from their thoughts seriously. Factor the thoughts of the masses into changing the face of your vision as you journey to it and be happy and more confident about where you want to get to. Seek not for fame but let it inspire you to the top. Mind your real aim notwithstanding the obstacles and failure you shall meet. Do your best to present your best to God for from Him comes your daily breath!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don’t follow the crowd; you may be missing among them. Go solo. Sometimes, it is better to go alone.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Don’t just manage
—  go extra mile and win your race. Never give up the fight. You will win.
Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Many little steps joined one after the other is what makes success possible. Keep doing little stuffs every day. Don’t give up!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
children spend their time for they think they have more time
—  adults cry over their time for they see they have less time
People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
As long as you want the belt, don’t run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
I see the sunRISE
—  you too can rise!
I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost land
— Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Technology has given the dumb a tongue
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones
—  you need them to jump up. They should not become beds that should keep you comfortably sleeping.
Those who are growing great are always asking “why?” If they fail or lose, they ask “why?” If they succeed or win too, they ask “why?
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of person you are.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
If you have answers to the “whys”, it will direct you to the “hows”. As simple as that!
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
If you are idle, ask “why?” If you feel like life is boring for you, ask “why?” When you get into a disappointment, ask “why?” Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask “why?
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The fact that everyone is doing something does not mean that’s the right things.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
The god of fools is a fool just like them.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.
— Israelmore Ayivor, You Can Rise
What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
until you prove what is in you, what is in you shall always be what is in you
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
step by step
—  the language of orderliness.
A real value of our lives is in how we use our time as we journey from the womb to the tomb. A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! Wasted time! We waste great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb; in the end, we remember the w and the t in a simple statement of regret, 'had I known' ! The wasted time!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The moment you try working on what appears difficult to you, you will start noticing it’s loopholes that you can breakthrough.
— Israelmore Ayivor, You Can Rise
Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world.
— Nikita Dudani
shift your focus to achieve your purpose. Life is all about change!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
— Matthew 26:52, NIV
Think of the end when you begin! Though the end may not be all that certain, you are sure of getting something, mostly and surprisingly, above the target in the end! Bind yourself to Persistence and tenacity, courage and vigor, Wisdom and faith, and dare unrelentingly! Sometimes it is never okay to feel okay at all. Some shall continue to feel okay until they meet what would tell them what they could have done whilst feeling okay! So it was in the days of the Fig tree. It thought portraying its flourishing leaves would have pleased Jesus Christ but Jesus needed a fruit! We are all having flourishing leaves (life,) but think of the fruits we must bear (living) when it is time to bear them, in season and out of season! May enough be enough and when you feel you have had enough, may you be pushed by enough to go beyond enough and dare to live a distinctive footprint! It all begins with a step and ends with a step! Start your day with vigor and an utmost tenacity and end your day with something! Be poised to do something distinctive each day for that is all life is about! Life is an adventurous journey and you cannot forever skip mistakes but if you make a mistake, learn from the mistake, do something with the mistake and avoid that mistake happening again and you least did made a mistake! You only took a different root than the usual to your final destination. The meaning we have given to words is what makes words have meaning! Breathe whilst you have breath and do something with the air you breathe whilst you have breath!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Notwithstanding how uncanny moments of life might be, you never walk backwards. Once you take a step, you move forward by a step with a step. That is life! Even a child would never crawl backward and so would streams hardly flow backward. Just keep moving when it is a must to move!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Instead of saying maybe in May, let May be!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There are always certain things which are certain and there are always certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such things are over, there shall always be something to think about
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There are always certain things which are certain and certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such are over, there shall always be something to think about
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! We waist great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb
—  in the end we shall remember the w and the t! Hmm! The wasted time!
Time is the pivot of life activities. When you miss a second, you miss a time in your lifetime! Time is undoubtedly the greatest asset one can ever acquire. The ultimate and real time is in the mind. Time is thought and thought is time. To mind your time, mind your thought! To mind your life, mind your time!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn't be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn't get the response you got.
— Shannon L. Alder
If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation).
— Israelmore Ayivor, You Can Rise
Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed!
— Israelmore Ayivor, You Can Rise
ignorance to a certain degree can be corrected but, it shall always be an effort in futility to correct a certain degree of ignorance!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory
— Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig
real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks better than words
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The "civilized" man of today ridicules the idolatry of bygone ages, but he does not realize that he is a far worse idolater than the idolaters of the past. In former times, men set up images of various animals and adored them; today they slaughter those animals and worship their putrefied carcasses.
— Arshavir Ter Hovannessian, Raw Eating: Or a New World Free from Diseases, Vices and Poisons
Mind your mind. Think of distinctive footprints. Insofar as all things move forward and not backward, avoid retrogressive thinking, imprison negative thoughts, build a strong wall against negativity , be optimistic enough to deduce the optimisms in pessimism and think ahead of time. Understand the time you have and know what to do with the time, for time can loose it essence with time. If you ignore the real reasons why you wake up each day, you ignore the real reason why you continue to live each day. Life is just once so take the chance and mind your mind
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sadly for you, I think I'm going to live, Simi. You can stop slapping me now. I've already lost enough sense. Can't afford to lose any more brain cells. I really really need my last three before I forget how to spell my name. It's hard enough to pronounce." Nick"well, poo. Not poo that you'll live, 'cause the Simi would probably miss you if you died, but poo that I'll miss all that good old salty boy meat. Though we needs be fatting you up some to make you really good eats. Hmmm." Simi
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Instinct
Switch over to the right channel in your life --- positive attitude, right kind of food, right people and positive conversations.
— Sanchita Pandey, Cancer to Cure
The universe is your attendant. It will bestow you with the silverest of its sunshine, coolest of moonlight and the most fragrant air. Each drop of water that goes into your thirsty body will turn into God's nectar that will nourish the cells of your body and make sure that you shine once again!
— Sanchita Pandey, Cancer to Cure
Certain coincidence is wonderful. Certain meetings are memorable. Sometimes you meet some people for just a moment and they leave indelible footprints on your mind. They give you the reasons to ponder over and over. They become your food for thought. Though they go, their presence is felt within the innermost of the heart and the soul; especially when such people were a reason for a smile, or they were a perfect fit for a vacuum or probably they were a heavenly sent or maybe they were an epitome of a great union; when their light could shine to brighten the dark side of our lives; when they knew how to arouse interest even in the face of dull atmosphere; when they did understand silence and know the value and power of words; when even their absence is felt more than their presence. You can’t just forget about such people. Though they leave, they live within our hearts, mind, body and soul.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How little we know of what there is to know.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
the great mountain when seen from a distance shall always seem closer to us but to get to it, and to climb to its apex to get the best view, we may need to take and experience the real walk with resilience and tenacity.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Greed and our food supply. It is greed that compels dairymen to skim every bit of goodness from milk to make other products and then to fill the swill left with chalk and sell it at profit. Greed tempts butchers to grind up the meat of sick cows with well ones and mix it into sausage along with offal and dung to extend the amount of 'meat' that they can sell. Greed motivates bakers to use flour devoid of the wheat germ and the nutritious outer husk and to add alum and chlorine to make bread look whiter and to cook faster. Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.
— Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe
Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self?
— Donna Tartt
It will surprise you. It will keep you mute. it will make you ponder. It will ignite your passion. It will dumb fold you. It will invoke your joy. It will kick your pain away. It will shake your envy. It will shove your slothfulness.It will wake you up. It will turn your thought. It will inspire you. It will give you reasons. It will harness your potentials. It trigger your power.It will grease your body. It will electrify your nerves. It will make you giggle. It will shake your body. It will make you inquire and enquire.It will leave you in wonder. That is it!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person to also become an expert through support, advice, and involvement in character building opportunities.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.
— CLAMP, xxxHolic, Vol. 1
Was I the only one who became unsettled and swoonish at the sight of a large, inverted carcass hanging from a tree, its vital organs strewn about like children's toys, the occasional pack of hunting dogs fighting over a lung, another one looking for a quiet place to enjoy the severed head? It happened all the time and nobody else seemed bothered. People just walked up to the bloody carcasses and carried on entirely normal conversations, as though a man wasn't standing there squeezing deer feces out of a large intestine and small children weren't playing football with a liver.
— Harrison Scott Key, The World's Largest Man: A Memoir
If life gives you a passport size dream, don't frame it... Order for a reprint... Go for the bigger picture of you! You deserve a bigger and bright image of you... Go and soar like an eagle!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.
— Matthew Catania
At the end of life, your reward in heaven will not be proportional to the role you played on earth, but how faithful you played it. Be faithful in every little role you are to play; it'll lead you to a greater reward! Faithfulness is key!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
True coolness is the incidental by-product of higher pursuits.
— J.K. Rowling
Everything that the spider needs to make a spider-web is not found in the housefly... it's right there in the spider! Whatever you need to make impacts is in you! Discover yourself and make a difference!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Leaving your dreams and living someone's dreams is like dipping a pole into a pool to catch a weaver bird alive! It doesn't work that way... Pursue what God sent you for!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
When you are good at despising little things, you are likely to throw away the tiny match stick that has the potential of putting the entire forest on fire! Little things do carry heavy potentials!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances and decide to mourn for life as a result of the unexpected.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
There is no need to rush in life. Just with one word at a time, your sweet life history will be written boldly in capitals and highlighted for easy access. Be sure you are passing the test of patience!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Your later may be late. Never postpone your salvation HOURS to tomorrow. If it's not now, it may be never. The days are not OURS!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
To win our races, we will dare! The enemy may try every means to stop us, but look, "we won't care!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
When my first attempt failed, fear brought into me a shock... I gave a smile, only to realize that my shock was gone. A smile is a shock absorber!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Construct your life plans before satan attempts to destruct you with his death plots. I know this for sure; he is not in to heal! He just came to kill, to steal and destroy! Satan is not wise, it is only crafty!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365