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“If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree”

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Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
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“They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought on your behalf by Christ. However, it does not mean you should stay idle... Dress up and go to work!”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.”

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Book:Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
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“Don’t sit at home and wait for mango tree to bring mangoes to you wherever you are. It won’t happen. If you are truly hungry for change, go out of your comfort zone and change the world.”

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Book:101 Keys To Everyday Passion
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“An idle hand is not just the devil's workshop, it is the devil's abode. He lives rent free there. When you don't provide job opportunities, intentionally deprived them of quality education and steal their future opportunities, they will come for your peace of minds. The earlier our leaders understand that these people are not just agitating for an end to SARS but everything that surround deepening state of corruptions in the country, the better they act up and effect the change. This is just the beginning of a very long journey that will reshape the state of our nation.”

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Author:Olawale Daniel
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“When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best!”

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Book:Daily Drive 365
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“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!”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
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“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.”

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Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
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“Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).”

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Author:Evagrius Ponticus
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“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.”

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Author:Wayne D. Dosick
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“The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
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“The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
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