Inspirational Quotes

- INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES -

"School was the safe place where I had a glimpse of who I wanted to be. Atleast, till I found my writing pad and then it became even clearer." - Solomon Kolawole Falaiye 

"Courage is grace under pressure." —  Ernest Hemingway

"Cleverness and complexity are not necessarily wisdom." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

"No doubt, emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader." - Jack Welch

"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime." - Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"All you have to do is plant the seed and water it. Only God can make the sunshine, only God can bring the rain." - Tyler Perry

"How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover." - Richelle E. Goodrich

“Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it." - Albert Schweitzer

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." – Maya Angelou

"I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal." - Carl Jung 

"Life is a free road and I don't need your permission to travel it." - Solomon Kolawole Falaiye

“Making money is no fun. Contributing to changing the world is a lot more fun.” – Muhammad Yunus

"The book you don’t read won’t help." – Jim Rohn

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." - Warren G. Bennis

 "Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood." – John Green

"On Boarding is the most opportune time to orient your new hires and convert them to become one with your firm. This acculturation process is a rigorous one that must be handled professionally so that new hires see that they are not only welcome, but that the firm is indeed interested in their total well-being." - Joseph Ayeni 

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." – Gilbert K. Chesterton

 [AFRICAN POEM]

The Drums Are Talking

But neither the drummers nor the listeners can hear  the language and tounges they speak! 

Hello Diary! 

Been gone for a long while, like a nomad, where my heart leads I follow without hassle! 

Today I will pitch my tent at the second waterfalls of Erin Ijesha and hear what the night sounds like! 

But now I am welcomed by the sonorous sounds of the talking drums that sounds so loud but without a tune! 

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." – Gilbert K. Chesterton

"People would say all kinds of stuff to us, but what we allow ourselves to believe and confess is what matters really." - Solomon Kolawole Falaiye 

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus

"Your allegiance and loyalty will tilt towards your innermost desire; and your decision exhibited in your actions show to whom or where you belong." - Joseph Ayeni 

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return." – Salman Rushdie

"Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy." - Sri Nisargadatta

"Challenges are not anything strange. They're a part of the daily grind that keep you in impact as you inch closer and aim higher. You're nothing without them." - Joseph Ayeni 

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates

"People disrespect you when you're broke but change is constant remember, and that's why tables turn." - Solomon Kolawole Falaiye 

"In a good book the best is between the lines." – Swedish Proverb

"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live." - Haruki Murakami

“You can buy a man's time, you can buy a man's physical presence at a certain place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.” - Clarence Francis

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." - Luke 16:13 NIV

"If you must be associated with value and service, then you must be married equally to criticisms, snide remarks, skirmishes and even insults. It's all part of the value equation." - Joseph Ayeni 

"Life is a river. Don't push it and you will not be miserable." - Osho 

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry Thoreau

''The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.'' Albert Einstein

"Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" - Audrey Hepburn

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly." - Mabel Newcomber

"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"There is a silent language that creates a connection outside of any time and understanding. 

Only the souls that are invisibly connected can understand and hear this. 

The Vibration is more powerful than the words."

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“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Corneille

"There's nothing worse than bearing an untold story inside of you." - Maya Angelou.

"No matter how much one thinks money is evil, don't for a second think being broke is holy." - Anonymous

"Only those who celebrate themselves are the true celebrities." - Kelechi Uhegwu

"So it is with all desires and affections, all loves and fondnesses that people have for every variety of thing – father, mother, heaven, earth, gardens, palaces, knowledge, things to eat and drink.

The lover of God realizes all these desires are truly the desire for God, and they are all veils covering humanity’s eyes."

— Rumi

"Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature." - Steve Maraboli

"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine". - Fritz Perls

"You have no choice, you must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love". - Kamand Kojouri

"Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Criticize yourself, but do not feel desperate about it." – Epictetus, was a Greek-speaking Stoic philosopher.

"Love is above law, and law is beneath love. 

There is no comparison between them; one is from heaven and the other from earth. 

Where love dies law begins. 

Therefore law can never find a place for love, nor can love ever limit itself within law, one being limited, the other being as unlimited as life. 

The lover can give no reason why he loves a certain one, for there is a reason for everything except love."

by Hazrat Inayat Khan

“We met for a reason, either you're a blessing or a lesson.” - Frank Ocean

"There's a limit to how many steps you'll be able to take today. Make sure they're all in the right direction." - Jeff Sheehan.

"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes." - Tony Blair

"Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. 

Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. 

Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own."

by Albert Schweitzer

"People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged." - Lorii Myers

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills.

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today". – Benjamin Franklin.

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"All Nature Has A Feeling

All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks 

Are life eternal: and in silence they 

Speak happiness beyond the reach of books;

There's nothing mortal in them; their decay 

Is the green life of change; to pass away 

And come again in blooms revivified. 

Its birth was heaven, eternal it its stay, 

And with the sun and moon shall still abide 

Beneath their day and night and heaven wide."

by John Clare

 “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ― Winston S. Churchill

"Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew". - Idries Shah 

"If we can't work our desires and put our thoughts to practical ends, we're going to stay inert. We MUST be ready to work like we never prayed and to pray like we never worked. Both have to hit an equilibrium. Jesus didn't wish Calvary through. HE experienced it by paying the Price". - Joseph Ayeni 

"As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. 

The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. 

Nobody can afford to look round 

and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself." 

by Cal Jung , from "Man and His Symbols", 1964)

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much." — Francis Bacon

"Keep at what you know to do and continue to improve on it. That's value creation" - Ikechukwu Kalu 

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” Gerald R. Ford

 [POEM] 

Lost in the universe of strange eyes

I'm remembering

A ray of light

That you directed me once

Through your open eyelids.

And that one ray

From the past

Is brightening my path

And life

Stronger than all the suns

That are now

Warming or burning me out. 

- Violeta Milicevic

"Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential." - Sheryl Sandberg

"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are." — Melissa Etheridge

"Successful people accept that life is full of interruptions and change - they  plan for it." - Anonymous 

[POEM]

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

- Rabindranath Tagore

"There's too much lurked within you that you've got to discover. It's a wealth of treasure. You must be busy discovering yourself. If you're doing that, you got no time with gossip, tattle or being distracted." - Joseph Ayeni 

"Will is the mental faculty of man that stresses the power of determination (iron) to bring to pass what you envision and desire to see manifest through conscious practice and relentless pursuit. Nothing can prevent this idea from being created. It's the God-image in man." - Joseph Ayeni 

"Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population". - Albert Einstein

"Anger begins with madness and ends with regret." - Ali ibn Abu Talib (r.a)

"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark". - Pierce Brown

"It is not always a disadvantage to find ourselves In a place of vulnerability that leads us to God". - Sam Adeyemi

"You have to connect constantly with your environment to be an effective communicator". - Mai Atafo

"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity.

Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness,

It is not complex or elaborate.

The real knowledge is free

It's encoded in your DNA.

All you need is within you.

Great teachers have said that from the beginning.

Find your heart, and you will find your way". - Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq'ij of the Eagle Clan

"We cannot embrace God's Forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges". - T. D. Jakes

:I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness…The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living has no right to forget". - Chaim Herzog

"One Forgives to the degree that one Loves". - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on". - Les Brown

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it". - Mark Twain

"There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with Empowerment, and you have to Empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle". - Talib Kweli

"The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about Empowerment but far too little action to make it happen". - Geoff Mulgan

"I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me". - Queen Rania of Jordan

"If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment". - Sri Mulyani Indrawati

"One of the factors a country's Economy depends on is Human Capital... If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment bring huge economic benefits". - Michelle Bachelet

"Empowerment of individuals (especially Women) is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts". - Tim O'Reilly

 "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist" - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he as imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau 

"To create means to bring to existence something that has not being in existence before. God created that which was in His mind and man is the crown of His creation. Man was created in the image of God (the Creator) - we as human beings possess this creative power as well to bring into existence that which is our mind." - Pastor Sam Adeyemi 

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves" - Thomas Edison

"The greatest thing that a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success and there is no other." - Orison Swett Marden

"Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her." - Bible, Proverbs 3:13-15

"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingerprint." - John Paul Getty

"The greatest revolution of my generation is the discovery that by changing the inner attitudes of your mind, you can change the outer aspects of your life.' - William James

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- Author's Note -

This Page features daily inspirational quotes and motivational pictures from known and renowned authors, lines from our favorite books, celebrity talks and motivational speeches from God's ministers just to mention a few.


I hope it inspires you... God bless !