A “self-leader” is the positive influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.

— Israelmore Ayivor

As you think so you act.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

— E.J. Dionne Jr.

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

— Stefan Molyneux

Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Broken hearts behave in a million different ways-some of them are most unpredictable. More often than not such persons build walls around them and drive their loved ones crazy with their erratic behavior. Don’t give up on them at this time; it is now that they need you the most. Give them time and space. Then nurse them, mend their broken feathers and send them on their way fully recovered ready to face the world.

— Latika Teotia

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.

— Clarice Lispector