“The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us!”
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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
“Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Your bread assumes the shape of the pan you use to bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can’t use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and change the shape of the bread!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. Turn on your dreams again; watch them again; then watch your friends once more and know who to keep away and who to keep nearer!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will never be shortened! Feel free to share your success stories with every loved one out there; it will strengthen them but will never weaken you in any way.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You don't need to sit on a throne before you have the chance to dream; you don't have to feel fat meat in-between your molars to become a strategic dreamer. You can be a dreamer once you can think; dreams are germinate from imaginations; and survive through actions! Indecision weakens dreams; inaction kills them!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.”
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Israelmore Ayivor