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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.”

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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.”

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“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”

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“A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.”

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“Leaders fight hard wars against injustice and unfairness. They believe that the truth is a weapon; when triggered, the lie dies.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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 victory”

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“The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!”

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“ON GETTING DRUNK: "Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct themselves modestly, moderately, and soberly, so that one does not go on living the swinish life that goes on in the filthy world...." "...In my time it was considered a great shame among the nobility [drunkenness]. Now they are worse than the citizens and peasants;...We preach, but who stops it? Those who should stop it do it themselves; the princes even more. Therefore Germany is a land of hogs and a filthy people which debauches its body and its life. If you were going to paint it, you would have to paint a pig. "This gluttony is inundating us like an ocean....We are the laughingstock of all the other countries, who look upon us as filthy pigs;...It is possible to tolerate a little elevation, when a man takes a drink or two too much after working hard and when he is feeling low. This must be called a frolic. But to sit day and night, pouring it in and pouring it out again, is piggish. This is not a human way of living. not to say Christian, but rather a pig's life." - Martin Luther”

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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!”

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“When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.”

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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.”

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“Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.”

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“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.”

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“You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“[Martin] Luther, we grant, overcame bondage out of devotion by replacing it by bondage out of conviction. He shattered faith in authority because he restored the authority of faith. He turned priests into laymen because he turned laymen into priests. He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.”

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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.”

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“Luther's personality as well as his teachings shows ambivalence toward authority. On the one hand he is overawed by authority—that of a worldly authority and that of a tyrannical God—and on the other hand he rebels against authority—that of the Church. He shows the same ambivalence in his attitude toward the masses. As far as they rebel within the limits he has set he is with them. But when they attack the authorities he approves of, an intense hatred and contempt for the masses comes to the fore. […] we shall show that this simultaneous love for authority and the hatred against those who are powerless are typical traits of the "authoritarian character.”

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“And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.”

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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.”

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“I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.”

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“When natural music is heightened and polished by art, there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent (for it cannot be wholly seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music. In which this is most singular and indeed astonishing: that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four, or five voices also sing, which, as it were, play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed and believe that there is nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”

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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?”

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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.”

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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.”

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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?”

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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.”

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“Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.”

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