Food For Thought Quotes - Page 27

It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy. Sometimes, the soil must value the value of the seed. When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste!

It is highly impossible for you to be successful at what you don’t love. Do what you love and love what you do.

Leave fears aside, clean tears away! Tell God "here I am, use me!" and he'll give you the assignments that will make your life a fulfilled one. Now dress up to work!

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!

Never turn your back to those who have faced your problems on your behalf. Never shut your mouth on those who have opened their hearts to receive you!

The best lie someone can tell you is that you will have a bumper harvest when you didn’t plant any seed.

Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold.

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

Your bread assumes the shape of the pan in which you 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 get your desired shape of the bread!

Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

Friends who mock your dreams are not qualified to keep dusting your door step with their footprints every time.

The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren and unborn generations enlightened by what you have already learnt!

One of the easiest ways to show your mercy to the world is to hide your fears from people who are already afraid. Don't kill them alive when you truly claim you love them!

God has a plan for everyone he created and none of his creations is meant to be purposeless. Every human being for that matter was brought forth with a specific and unique duty to uptake while he lives on earth.

True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity.

Destiny is the established end of someone while vision remarks the photos of that predestined end, though not yet fulfilled. The insight of an unexperienced destiny can be discovered. That is through visions.

Whatever you do gives you the name it gives.

You can’t be a big dreamer if you don’t where you are going. You can’t know where you are going unless you first know where you are.

You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost!

There is a deeper satisfaction if you earn from your own work than relying on corruptible ways of amassing riches.

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia

It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea. The fact that you start with a small choice does not mean you will be on that narrow road forever.

Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you.

The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.

Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.

I have noticed that most times, the least that you give out is the best that someone really needs. So, don't always wait till you have something big to give before you do so! Someone's "big" is your "little"!

Your brand is that ADHESIVE image you carry, that has the ability to STICK to the minds of people you meet physically or otherwise. Brand yourself positively because whoever gets to know you when passing by takes your image along!

The truth is our generation would rather spend money to attend events to prove to people that they can than actually enjoying the moments themselves.©SaccheenLaing2015

People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now!

Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started.

When you believe in yourself as a great asset God created for a reason, you will rename your major successes as mere stepping stones because there are greater things that eyes have not yet seen through you, and all are embedded in the value you have in your room; remember that value is you!

Once you say “I can’t”, you suppress the left over passion in you. But you say “I can”, you spark your inner power to make it happen. You can!

You can be humble without compromising your values.

Nothing comes as an accomplishment instantly. Success does not come overnight. Patience is the key! Grow up and be the tree; but remember it takes dry and wet seasons to become a fruit bearer, achiever and impact maker!

One of the greatest ever statement that can keep you at peace with others is that "I am right, but I may be wrong"! Yes, we know you are right but you may be wrong!

Understand that you can’t achieve your dreams if you don’t connect with people who guide you to improve on upon the skills you have.

Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief “it’s impossible”!

Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words carry power, therefore before you speak out, speak in... and test your words!

Yes, when you are sharpened with the true information, you will be motivated to make impacts.

Nature always waits in the wings and the winds, ready to pounce with all of its power just at that sloppily contented hour when you foolishly assume it to be plainly tired out. Narcissistic humans do their quite pathetic best to kill nature off, oblivious to their self-reliance on its upkeep, yet nature will only take so much bureaucratic bullying before it snaps a deadly snap - for it does not need your approval, your organised banditry, your prepubescent social laws, your trades of cheapening commerce, your militant preachment, your apologies or blind belief of superiority... as if a presidential seat gives you an intolerable presumption of dominance over this earth's terrain!

If you are determined to achieve your dreams, you must be ready to accept and affirm positive things about yourself. Affirm positively! Say positive things and encourage yourself that you can make it.

Switch over to the right channel in your life --- positive attitude, right kind of food, right people and positive conversations.

The shelf where you can find the power to kick start is the shelf of self-confidence. No matter how loaded you are with the right information, you need to pull yourself out!

Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Do I love it? Can I have peace within if I refuse to have it done?" This is passion.

Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.

It's possible to walk out of your house with "local" footsteps, printing them one by one till they go on to make "global" consequences! Go, make a safe journey!

No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don't even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.

I saw many people who begun their marathon races lately, but they eventually came up as top winners. I believe that your "lateness" does not account for your "lastness". It's not too late for you to make a start... Begin it now! No further delays!

Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift.

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion.

Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

Don't rush to design your face to look beautiful, attractive and charming. Rather, be quicker to decorate your mind to appear as goal-oriented, passion-embedded and action-driven.

Leaders don't pray to God to fill their potholes. They ask God for shovels so they can do it by His grace. Pray practically.