“Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard?”
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“Don't neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“A little deed done very well is better than a mighty plan kept on paper, undone. Wishes don't change the world; it's actions that do this business!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“It does not matter how sweet you can sing a song of love. You must know how to dance along with it. You can't dance "salsa dance" on a "reggae song"
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“The 9th key may be the door opener. Don't give up after trying the 8th. Keep doing it!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Avoid hating people because you might have destroyed the bridge you have just used to cross the river; you'll need that bridge to cross again when returning!”
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“There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You have to make the right choice in order to have the right to change the world... Take hold of this chance right away!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about who you stand to be, not by arguments, but by focusing on what you do every day. If they change it, fine; if they don’t, fine. The good news is that you are pursuing excellence!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!”
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