Food For Thought Quotes
The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!
A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!
People with positive attitude can see great things even in worse situations. Only cowards give up because the worst happened to them.
When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!
When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people’s credibility which won’t fit! Live like you!
Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.
It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!
The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is that, one has preserved his potentials while the other has processed his own!
Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around!
The success gate is far at the end of the long failure corridor. Keep moving no matter how many potholes you step into. You will get there with time!
Your doubts do nothing than pouring cold water on your enviable dreams. Just keep doubts away from you and you will not dilute your success story!
You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!
Don’t predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don’t judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!
Everyone has limitations. Know that when you always say “I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.
Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure!
Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.
It’s awkward to wake up one day to see the trumpet working hard to lead in the shoes of the microphone. You can only lead where you can function better!
You have been “self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!
You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.
It’s ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!
Abortion of potentials is a massacre of purpose. You don’t get the fruit because you killed the seeds!
Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!
If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!
It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!
God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word!
Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!
Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
To make plans and not make good use of them is like “betraying your success helpmate” after getting to know him. Make plans, get prepared, but let the work be done!
The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
To know God, you must appreciate the salvaging will of His son. Through Christ, we become true leaders worthy of rewards!
The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!
To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!
You owe the world a load of wisdom to dispense. If you lay hands on the grace, make it happen. They world needs you!
The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!
Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!
People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!
Move what you can do at level one when you get to level one. When you get to level two, you need a bigger power to move it!
Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!
Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!
When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.
You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people’s assignments instead of pursing yours!
Never fall in love with anything life throws at you. You have what it takes to colour your environment with the right decisions at the right time!
God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It’s your responsible to make it happen!
Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!
Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!
The bottom line is that you can’t lead the person you can’t serve!
He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!
There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!
Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!
Stress is equivalent to weapons of mass destruction armed for wrong reasons. The difference is that, it is less costly as compared to the atomic bombs! However, it destroys faster!