"I will rather shine with God than shine without Him" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"Spirit of Faith never bows to defeat or to threats" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" - Aldous Huxley

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body" - Seneca

"The last battle you lost is the last you will ever loose" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The Spirit of Faith sees opportunities in challenges" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey

"The Alter of Sacrifice is the Alter of Super-natural turnaround" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"No child prays to share the DNA of his father, its a natural heritage" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"Prophets are ordained father to those they are sent - if you take them so" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"There is no proof that you belong, when it is not happening" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller,

"Every Creation must produce after it's kind, otherwise it's claim is fake" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The Spirit of Faith is an authoritative speaking spirit" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The Love of God makes you indestructible" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"When you believe you have lost your power and control, nothing will ever seem easy or simple." - Shannon Alder

"`It does not matter', matters a lot" - Pastor Nicholas Udoh

"It is foolishness to be shameful of what is gainful" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The Alter of Sacrifice is the Alter of Sworn Blessing" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The Love of God constraints obedience to the work of the Master" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." - Walter Lippmann

"The Alter of Sacrifice changes you, not God" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation." - Ann Voskamp,

"Jesus is not white, Jesus is not black. Jesus is God" - Bishop David Oyedepo

“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” Aristotle

"The Alter Sacrifice is the Alter of removal of Plagues" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." - Socrates

“In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is a difference.” - Yogi Berra

"Black is not synonymous with lack" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"The present is theirs; but the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

"He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." - Marie Curie,

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand and remember." - Michael Korda,

"There is no guaranteed cure for frustration than dedication" - Bishop Oyedepo

"If you don't know where you are going, everywhere will seem like it" - Bishop David Oyedepo

"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart, no man much respects himself." - Mark Twain

"Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features." - Steve Jobs

"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." - -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - -- William Arthur Ward

"Now is the time for fresh eyes and leadership" - Rahm Emmanuel, Mayor of Chicago

"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open." - Albert Einstein

"None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial." - Thomas Edison

"Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile." - Mary Beard

"Violence and conflict feed on fear, mistrust & the despair born of poverty." - Pope Francis

"May my visit to Africa be a sign of the Church’s esteem for all religions, and strengthen our bonds of friendship." - Pope Francis

"All Human Persons – All Of Us – Are Important In God’s Eyes." - Pope Francis

"Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an education." - Atiku Abubakar

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” - Winston Churchill

 

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - Sushma Swaraj, India Minister of External Affairs

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." - Adlai Stevenson II

"I tried to make a paper joke once. It was tearable.." - Kristen Rosales

"Relationships are worth fighting for but you can’t be the only damn person fighting." - Kristen Rosales

"People miss you more when they see how much happier you are without them." - Kristen Rosales

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."- Helen Keller

"Business is all about solving people's problems -- at a profit." - Paul Marsden

"To forgive the terrorists is up to God, to send them to him is up to me" - Vladimir Putin

"A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven". - Boethus

"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter." Marlene Dietrich

"An epidemic worse than any plague that human kind has ever seen has ben raging for centuries. It is the "don't want" epidemic." - John Assaraf

"Make your last thoughts before going to sleep good thoughts." - Lisa Nichols

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge". - Thomas Carlyle

"Most people are thinking about what they don't, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again." - John Assaraf

"Attract the good, instead of the bad." - Bob Proctor

"See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It works every time, with every person." - Bob Proctor

"Earn Your Leadership. Every day." - Michael Jordan

"The vibration of mental fores are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence" - Charles Hoarel

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway

"Sometimes, ordinary things can be made extra-ordinary simply by doing them with the right people" - Nicholas Sparks

"Impossible only means that you have not found the solution yet!" - Anon

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy." - Robert Half,

"Rule No 1: Never lose money. Rule No 2: Never forget rule No 1." - Warren Buffett,

"Strong characters are brought out by a change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence." - Jean Paul Richter

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.” - Laurence Binyon

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.” - Machiavelli

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” - Machiavelli

“Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.” - Machiavelli

“Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.” - Machiavelli

“He who becomes a Prince through the favor of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed.” - Machiavelli

"Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be." -- Zig Ziglar

“Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.” - Machiavelli

“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” - Machiavelli

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.” - Machiavelli

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk and acting decisively.” - Machiavelli

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John Shedd

"Teach others how to think, not what to think.." - Alex Mandossian

“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.” - Machiavelli

"The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day." - Sir William Osler

"A good CEO must be an innovator, capable of creating new and better ways of producing and distributing products and services" - Prof Maurizio Viroli

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Machiavelli

"A good leader should aim to be clement and not cruel" -Machiavelli

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." - Machiavelli

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand" - Machiavelli

"Before you betray somebody, make sure you can handle that karma first." - Olivia Sahar Alexa

"A company with 100 employees cannot function effectively using the tactics that work for a company with 10 employees: You need an updated playbook." - Reid Hoffman

"Out of clutter, find simplicity." - Albert Einstein

"Freedom is when you have control of your reality, to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed on you." - Mark Knofler

"Freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it - no matter what anyone else is doing." - Pink, Pop Singer

"In business, there’s such thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one." - Malcolm Forbes

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." - J.K. Rowling,

"I always say I'm done with you, but I never am" - Drake

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." - Mary Shelley

"Change has to come for life to struggle forward." - Helen Hollick,

"Our planetory experience is like a Classroom, we control a lot by our thoughts and by our joint thoughts..." - Oprah Winfrey.

"In the end, your success will speak for itself.." Patrick Bet-David

"Don't wast your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good to you" - Oprah Winfrey

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."- Oscar Wilde

"Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold!" - Proverbs 11:27

"“He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.” - Proverbs 11:27

"Eventually, everything connects!" - Charles Eames

"Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work." - Chuck Close

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Suchma Swaraj, Minister for External Affairs, India

“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” Anon

"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them." - David Allen,

"When you are in light place and everything goes against you.When it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer.NEVER give up then. For that is just the time that the Tide will Turn - Harriet Beecher"

"People are so scared to lose that they don't even try." - Kanye West

"The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem - not others." - Shannon Alder,

"Women are meant to be loved not understood" - Oscar Wilde

"Love is not blind. It sees, but does not mind." - Charles Saatchi

"Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored." - Tim Fargo,

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning." - Albert Camus,

"We can talk all we like about opportunity, but it is meaningless unless people are judged equally" - David Cameron

"Action is the foundational key to all success."- Anthony Robbins,

""I Believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination." - Zig Ziglar"

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken." - Abigail Adams,

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." -Kenneth Hildebrand.

"Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein,

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."- Oprah Winfrey,

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve." - Benjamin Franklin, US Founding Father

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."- William Faulkner,

"The best way to start solving racism issues is to recognize that mixed-race people are just that - Mixed race. Neither black nor white." - Benson Agoha

"I suspect, on reflection, that my colleagues will calm down.." - Diane Abbott MP

"The best way to start solving racism issues is to recognize that mixed-race people are just that - Mixed race. Neither black nor white." - Benson Agoha

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln,

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind." - Frank Herbert

"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think." - Toni Morrison,

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot,

"This Is What Fires Me Up. Not Pounds and pence, but people." - PM David Cameron

"Snapchat Founder, Evan Spiegel, Is The World’s Youngest Billionaire. He’s worth $2.1 billion." - Forbes

"There Can Be No Courage Unless You're Scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker,

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi,

"We are here to put a dent on the universe, otherwise, what else even be here" - Steve Jobs

"The same people that cause you pain, check your page to see if you're happy." - Olivia Alexa

"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil." - Veronica Roth,

"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt." - Eric Sevareid,

"Don't make a permanent choice because of a temporary feeling.." - Beyoncee

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare,

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather,

"Robert Downey Jr.’s earnings skyrocketed to his highest ever annual payday, thanks to top-grossing films such as ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron.’ - Forbes

"The church is the reflection of Christ. It has no light of its own." - Pope Francis

"It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there."- Mia Hamm,

"Sean "Diddy" Combs earned $60 million this year -- more than any other hip-hop act in the world." - Forbes

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." - Seneca,

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble." - Plautus,

"For the ninth consecutive year, the Cowboys are the most valuable NFL team in 2015; worth $4 billion." - Mike Ozanian

"The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers" - African Proverb

"We won't accept that in Jerusalem our capital, or anywhere in Israel, that people will throw stones at cars." - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

"A millionaire is not one who amasses millions but one who reaches and impacts a million people." - Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr. (Winners Chapel Pastor highlights the importance of Soul-winning.)

“We are going to put into practice Jeremy’s commitment to a new type of politics" - Lilian Greenwood, Shadow Transport Secretary

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” - Anon

"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead." - Bette Davis,

"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one." - John Maxwell,

"I do not believe in the word `fate'. It is the refuge of ever self-confessed failure." - Andrew Soutar

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain,

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Will Durant,

"Click google instead of asking stupid questions!" - Jose Morinho

"God Is Great!" - Anonymous

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." - Will Durant

"If you're going to go through hell ... I suggest you come back learning something." - Drew Barrymore,

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts." George F. Tilton

"If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society." - J E Tada

"If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped." - Melinda Gates,

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in this world." - Blaise Pascal

"By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower,

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." - Helen Keller,

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine,

"Any organization, in order to survive and achieve success, must have a sound set of beliefs on which it premises all its policies and actions."- Thomas Watson Jr.,

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." - Erma Bombeck,

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter,

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the earth." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

"Kill them with success and bury them with a smile." - Iggy Azalea

"Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep people away, but to see who cares enough to tear them down." - Drake

"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."- Colin Powell,

"As long as NOTHING HAPPENS, anything is POSSIBLE" - Graham Greene

"True prosperity is the result of well placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man." - Benjamin Burt

"The purpose of every product is determined in the factory and not in the market." - Bishop David Oyedepo

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success." - Dale Carnegie,

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Baruch Spinoza

"There are many kinds of success in life worth having." - Theodore Roosevelt,

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." - Calvin Coolidge,

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal: My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur,

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs,

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages".- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Why and ""how"" are words so important that they cannot be too often used." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Power is not given to you, you have to take it" - Beyonce

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller,

"From the little spark may burst a mighty flame." - Dante

"We Are A Nation Of Geniuses" - David Cameron (British Prime Minister speaking of his country).

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett,

"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily." - Johann Schiller

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives." - Robert Southey

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."- Oprah Winfrey,

"Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective." - William Feather

"If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti,

"The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity." - Victor Chasles

"New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed because they are not already common." - John Locke

"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs." - Dhirubhai Ambani,

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out." - Ronald Reagan,

"He who minds nobody's business but his own is probably a millionaire." - Unknown

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”- Robert Louis Stevenson

"No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear." - Cicero

"He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king." - John Milton

"A dull pencil is greater than the sharpest memory." - Charles Saatchi

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -- Helen Keller,

"Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you’ll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard." - David Rockefeller

"You’ll never know what would have happened if you don’t give it a go" - Sir Richard Branson

"I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else." - Booker T. Washington,

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." - Albert Einstein

"...We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.." - Hillary Clinton

"Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana" - Harry Styles

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." - Arnold Bennett,

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo

"Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time." - George Washington

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience, but you must stop and look fear in the face.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” ~ Zig Ziglar

"The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving,

"Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it." - Malcolm Forbes

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore Vail,

"We become what we think about." - Earl Nightingale,

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can." - Thomas Carlyle

"If the world was made up of average people, it would be a very dull place to live" - Sir Richard Branson

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." - Leon J. Suenens

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will lives its whole life believing that is is stupid" - Albert Einstein

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden,

"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience." - Viktor Frankl,

"Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future." - Robert E. Lee

"London Moves Faster When You Are Contactless!" - Tfl Advert

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." - Winston Churchill

"Some Pastors flip-flop between the demands of moral decency and yielding to their true powerful self." - Benson Agoha

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller,

“You must unlearn what you have learned.” – Yoda

"Give me an entrepreneur with gumption, a great work ethic, the spirit of a team player and a product that enough people will pay for, and I've got a business worth investing in.” - Barbara Corcoran

"Kindness is a language which the deaf and the blind can read." - Mark Twain

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C.S. Lewis

"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open." - Albert Einstein,

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up." -- Beverly Sills,

"Self-trust is the first secret of success." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." - Abraham Lincoln

"Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness." - Oscar Wilde

"It’s great to arrive, but the trip’s most always most of the fun." - Malcolm Forbes

"There is no passion to be found playing small -- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." -- Nelson Mandela,

"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time." - Voltaire

"Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down." - William Winans

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

"The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. " - Robert Lee Frost

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Herbert Einstein

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

"The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders." - Foster's Law

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." - E. Joseph Cossman

"Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death." - Stephen Mitchell

'Feelings are beyond all understanding.They aren't logical.We waste our time if we try to make sense of raw, intense, intuitive emotions.' Jonathan Cainer

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek." -- Mario Andretti, Race Car Driver

"He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-tzu

'Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.' - Sir Walter Scott

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine -- it is lethal." -- Paulo Coelho, novelist

“It’s easy designing one product well. It’s quite another matter to design a portfolio of products all with the same identity and intuitive usability.” - Hallgrim Sagen

"Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together." - John A Morrison

"If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you," - David Cameron gives advice to young Britons thinking of joining ISIS.

"Children are named according to their parents intelligence. They are a social marker, an indicator of vocab, manners, ability, respect." - Katie Hopkins

“Money issues are top of mind for small-business owners every single day. So it's no surprise that trade and lending are crucial focuses.” - Anita Campbell

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; the cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain

"Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?" -- Asks Charles Lindbergh, Aviator

"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or disbelieve." - Thomas Carlyle

"Too much rest is rust." -- Walter Scott

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people" - Theodore Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember, diamonds are only jumps of coal that stuck to their jobs." - BC Forbes

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course." -- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist

"True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by." - ES Bouton

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Earl Nightingale,

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”—Martha Graham

"There is only one success: To be able to spend your life in your own way." -Christopher Morley

"We have one of the best training models in the country." - South Carolina Governor, Nikki Haley

"A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do." - Fred Estabrook

"EVEN SATAN WASN’T GAY, he approached naked Eve instead of naked Adam" – President Robert Mugabe

"When our children are grown they probably won’t even believe that once upon a time Gays and Lesbians were unable to get married." - Amber Rose

"Today we can say in no uncertain terms that we've made our union a little more perfect." —President Obama

"All power is from within and is therefore, within our control" - Robert Collier

"If someone offers you a great opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say `yes', then learn how to do it later" - Sir Richard Branson

"Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but has not solved one yet" - Maya Angelou

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and statesman

"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." -- George Marshall, military leader

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard

"You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had" ― Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change." - Pope Francis

"Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is not a secondary aspect of our Christian experience." - Pope Francis

"An integral ecology includes taking time to reflect on our lifestyle and our ideals" - Pope Francis

"Climate change represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day." Pope Francis

"The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together." - Pope Francis

"The deterioration of the environment and of society affect the most vulnerable people on the planet." - Pope Francis

"We have to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor." - Pope Francis

"To blame population growth, and not an extreme consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues" - Pope Francis

"Never turn back unless you’ve forgotten your passport or your makeup" - Joanna Chen

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts" - Winston Churchill

"The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change." Bill Clinton on why you should not remain unchanging.

"The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation" - Bill Clinton on the unknown future

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder." - Ronald Reagan

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out." - Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"Nothing will work, unless you do!" - Maya Angelou

"If you have only one smile in you, give to the people you love" - Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." - Maya Angelou

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - CS LEWIS

"True Love?Dropping half of a sandwich on the floor without being noticed and giving the clean half to your significant other"- Princess Kim

"The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere

"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man." - William Penn

"Vision with action can change the world" - Nelson Mandela

"Vision without action is merely day dreaming" Nelson Mandela

"Action without vision is only passing time" - Nelson Mandela

"Make things happen, even if the odds are huge!" - (Anon)

"Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching" - Anon

Some say "Revenge is best cold".

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein

"Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest." - Ralph W. Sockman

"Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good." - Hannah More

"One of the most important trips a man can make is that involved in meeting the other fellow halfway." - Bruce van Horn

"Assertiveness is not rebelliousness, nor is determination stubbornness" {Anon}

"Vital to every operation is co-operation" (Anon)

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." Erica Jong

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." -- ( Maya Angelou )

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart" - Anne Frank, July 15, 1944

"On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind." - Sir William Hamilton

"Sometimes, revenge is best served cold." [Anon]

"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck" - O Mandino

"Luck never gives; it only lends" - Swedish proverb

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing" John D Rockefeller

"Be ready when opportunity comes - luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet" - RD Chapin Jr

"We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost" ~ Ray Bradbury

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself" -- [Harvey Fierstein,]

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett,

"If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route." ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone." -- Robert Frost,

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the number of times you get back up." -- Aaron Sorkin,

"Try to listen to your intuition because, often times, it won't let you down" - (BA)

"Good things may come to those who wait, but only what is left by those who hustle" - Anon.

"When an outsider's imagination outruns action of a leader, falsehood is rife, and reality is distorted." - BA

"When forecasters consistently get prediction wrong, it maybe time to accept that the target is unpredictable." - BA

If a door was never open or you never knew of it's existence, of what use is it to you when it closes? -BA