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“People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.”

“Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!”

“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”

“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.”

“Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.”

“It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!”

“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!”

“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.”

“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!”

“This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.”

“You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.”

“Stick to love; it is heavy and it will carry you. Avoid hatred; it is heavy and you have to carry it. It is left to you to make your choice.”

“Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.”

“To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.”

“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.”

“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.”

“Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.”