“Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.”

“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.”

“You can’t have favour with God and suffer in life. Learn to have God’s favour first, and the favour of men will fall in place automatically for you.”

“Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.”

“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.”

“At the point where he, today’s Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.And the further he was from childhood, the nearer he got to the present day, the more trivial and dubious his pleasures appeared. It started with law school. That had retained a little something that was really good: there was fun, there was friendship, there was hope. But in the last years the good times had become more exceptional. Then, at the beginning of his service with the governor, some good times came again: memories of making love to a woman. Then it became all confused, and the good times were not so many. After that there were fewer still; the further he went the fewer there were.Marriage. . .an accident and such a disappointment, and his wife’s bad breath, and all that sensuality and hypocrisy! And the deadlines of his working life, and those money worries, going on for a year, two years, ten, twenty – always the same old story. And the longer it went on the deadlier it became.’It’s as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That’s how it was. In society’s opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me…And now it’s all over. Nothing left but to die!”

“The concept of time can be viewed as a continuum extending from the past to the present and to the future in which events happen in an irreversible progression”

“You need to be able to think Independently.”

“Never be in a state of dissociation when it comes to your decisions”

“Look forward to failure. Fail quickly. If it does not start with Failure it is probably not meant to be”

“When you sense you need courage, you are going to next level of life.”

“If a nation is progressing, the nation will prosper”

“You can’t have what’s next until you let go of what’s now.”

“Self-will can either destroy or catapult your ministry.”

“The power of testimony is progress.”