Inspiring Quotes

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

Israelmore Ayivor

A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.

Israelmore Ayivor

We are dust and to dust we shall return.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Share your skills, inspire a change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Failure is a teacher. It teaches what you ought to learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every new day, we must refocus, to see the beauty of the moment

Lailah Gifty Akita

Black Girls… Beautiful in EVERY shade and size. We’ve got that special something! Our melanin is exquisitely beautiful! Love & embrace the skin that you’re in. Our skin tones represent beauty. Light, brown, and dark skinned girls are equally gorgeous!

Stephanie Lahart

Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

Shih-t'ou

Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.

Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.

Wherever you are, you have to be joyfully alive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The people living in land of deep darkness have seen a great light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Go forward and explore many great lands.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my last legacy to my mother.

Nicholas Wiseman

Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The pain in your muscles and the sweat in your brow after doing a work the hard and honest way make you feel proud of yourself!

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

Matshona Dhliwayo

May you find strength to survive life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to act right than seek right.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Spread the light of love in the spirit of purity of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

The Scripture is like a sharp sword.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you begin to do what matters most to you, you let go of preconceived notions of who you are which have been fostered by others and start creating the person you most want to be.

Death, like so much in life, is a lesson, which must be understood and cherished, not feared; it is a rite of passage we all must encounter at one time or another; it helps build our character and makes us stronger if we can endure its painful aftermath.

No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.

What I want from you comrade, what the world wants from you, O dearest, are the neurons of steel, within which dwells a mind of the same material of which the thunderbolt is made.

Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.

Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.

You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.

Israelmore Ayivor

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!

If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.