“Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Smile once a while; even if life tastes like bitter bile, just file out your teeth and cheeks and take a mile of sweet smiles... Smile, make it your life's style. Decorate your face with piles of smiles!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Waiters and quitters have a little difference; quitters begin well but do not finish it; waiters do not begin it at all. Don’t be part of their tragedy. Go, make it happen now!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Success is reserved for you if you persevere; it's not deserved by you if you are indolent!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Don’t stretch your neck to see who is not doing it; you can do it better! Don’t turn to watch whoever is watching you; everybody is busily watching over his own actions at hand! Go, make your own real; do at the right time. The right time is now; so do it now!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“I have noticed that sometimes, our success, promotion and accomplishments become real when we say "no" to some things and act the right way. The potential that drives you to do that is called "self-discipline".”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“The deeper your thoughts, the clearer your dreams. The clearer your dreams, the higher you fly. Decide to fly!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“How I wish the police service is instructed to arrest people who over-complain! Just arrest them, do no harm to them, but make them do the "work" they complain about with hard labour!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Build a solid courage behind what you believe you can do. Your dreams may drift and fall, but when your courage is strong and still, you can’t shift; you’ll lift your dreams again!”
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Israelmore Ayivor