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“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“we often place too much emphasis on making decisions and too little on managing the decisions we've already made.”
― John C. Maxwell

“LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests”
― John C. Maxwell

“Positive thinkers use sentences like “I can do it”; “I am qualified for it”; they think of things as possible.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
― Albert Einstein

“To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian’s goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling’s inverted position.”
― Billy Graham

When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“In our world today most people compromise rather than take a stand for what is right. Jesus said we would be persecuted for righteousness’ sake, and most people are not up for that. Jesus also promised a reward; however, the majority of people want reward without commitment. If we do what God has asked us to do, we will get what He promised us we could have.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good for everyone, for mankind, for Russia, for the district, for the whole village, he had noticed that thinking about it was pleasant, but the doing itself was always awkward, there was no full assurance that the thing was absolutely necessary, and the doing itself, which at the start had seemed so big, kept diminishing and diminishing, dwindling to nothing; while now, after his marriage, when he began to limit himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer experienced any joy at the thought of what he was doing, he felt certain that his work was necessary, saw that it turned out much better than before and that it was expanding more and more.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.”
― Ronald Reagan

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