Age Quotes

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up