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The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.Timothy B. Tyson
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If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.Israelmore Ayivor
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Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.Israelmore Ayivor
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You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.Israelmore Ayivor
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Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.Israelmore Ayivor
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The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.Israelmore Ayivor
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Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.Israelmore Ayivor
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Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.Israelmore Ayivor
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Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.Israelmore Ayivor
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Let these words be your guide; money or no money, houses or no houses, cars or no cars, never turn down the divine assignment of God for your life. Become an inspiration to another life through good service and healthy relationship.Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.Israelmore Ayivor
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Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.Israelmore Ayivor
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Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.Israelmore Ayivor
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Most of the people who attempt to draw back the success of the world are those who don’t care about anything. They live life every day without asking why.Israelmore Ayivor
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It’s never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.Israelmore Ayivor
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At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.Israelmore Ayivor
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The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new youIsraelmore Ayivor
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The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place.Israelmore Ayivor
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Watch out success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.Israelmore Ayivor
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The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.Israelmore Ayivor
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The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.Israelmore Ayivor
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Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.Israelmore Ayivor
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The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.Israelmore Ayivor
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Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.Israelmore Ayivor
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I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.Israelmore Ayivor
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The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.Israelmore Ayivor
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Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.Israelmore Ayivor
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Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victoryIsraelmore Ayivor
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I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.Israelmore Ayivor
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People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that’s the job of vision.Israelmore Ayivor
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One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.Israelmore Ayivor
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One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.Israelmore Ayivor
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Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.Israelmore Ayivor
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Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.Israelmore Ayivor
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Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.Israelmore Ayivor
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If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.Israelmore Ayivor
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Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.Israelmore Ayivor
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Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.Abhijit Naskar
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Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.Israelmore Ayivor
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The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!Israelmore Ayivor
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The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!Israelmore Ayivor
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I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together? .Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.Israelmore Ayivor
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Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.Israelmore Ayivor
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People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.Israelmore Ayivor
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Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.Israelmore Ayivor
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Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.Israelmore Ayivor
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If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.Israelmore Ayivor
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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."-- From My Brother Martin, by Christine King FarrisUnknown
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Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.Israelmore Ayivor
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Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.Israelmore Ayivor
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Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.Israelmore Ayivor
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You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.Israelmore Ayivor
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Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.Israelmore Ayivor
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Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.Israelmore Ayivor
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Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you’re a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don’t seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys.Pat Conroy
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Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.Unknown
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Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.Israelmore Ayivor
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People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.Israelmore Ayivor
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Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.Israelmore Ayivor
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It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.Israelmore Ayivor
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Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.Israelmore Ayivor
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A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.Israelmore Ayivor
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What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.Israelmore Ayivor
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Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.Israelmore Ayivor
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The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.Israelmore Ayivor
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Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.Israelmore Ayivor
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Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!Israelmore Ayivor
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You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!Israelmore Ayivor
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Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.Israelmore Ayivor
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Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!Israelmore Ayivor
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When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.Israelmore Ayivor
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Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.Israelmore Ayivor
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You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.Israelmore Ayivor
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Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.Israelmore Ayivor
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When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.Israelmore Ayivor
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Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.Israelmore Ayivor
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Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.Israelmore Ayivor
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Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?Israelmore Ayivor
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The leader’s commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.Israelmore Ayivor
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Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.Israelmore Ayivor
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If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.Israelmore Ayivor
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I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.Israelmore Ayivor
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People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.Israelmore Ayivor
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People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.Israelmore Ayivor
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Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.Israelmore Ayivor
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The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.Israelmore Ayivor
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When the leader grows, the organization grows.Israelmore Ayivor
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When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.Israelmore Ayivor
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This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?Israelmore Ayivor
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Don’t wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can’t do it yourself. Just try it.Israelmore Ayivor
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No one has the right to pee on your dreams!Israelmore Ayivor
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Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.Israelmore Ayivor
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Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.Israelmore Ayivor