Inspiring Quotes

YOUR CHOICE IS YOUR WAY

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
                                                                                               MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is the one elicited from the darkest storm.
                                                                                                CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Look at the stone cutter; hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and i know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
                                                                                                 JACOB RIIS

I thank my political opponents who have in diverse ways made things difficult for me unknown to themselves; they are my friends in disguise. By their actions they have toughened me, they have made me utterly fearless and defiant, supremely self-confident, indifferent to obloquy and sometimes suspicious of praise.
                                                                                        OBAFEMI AWOLOWO

 

Show me a man who keeps his talents, time and treasures for himself alone, no life style of sowing into other people’s lives and ventures, show me a man who always wants to be served and never wants to help others fulfill their dreams, I will vividly give you a picture of a man courting poverty, failure and stagnation.
                                                                                            JOE IGBOANUGO.

Think about what questions you will be asked at the close of your life on earth. The question will not be how much have you got? But, how much have you given? Not, how much have you won? but how much have you sacrificed? It will be how much have you loved and served? How much were you honored?  
                                                                                           NATHAN SCHAEFFER.