Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Make Your Own Decisions
Take advice from people, but be sure you are the one who make decision on things that directly affect your life; nobody can do it better for you.
What Does A Woman Need In Marriage?
Inspiring African Sayings
African sayings are full of wit and wisdom. There is always an important message in every African saying. Here are a few African saying that will inspire you.
Why did you pass the plantain garden and enter into the bananas garden?
To go out often is your father and to sit in one place is your mother.
To be injured in the eye is to procure protection.
Who tells you too close is yours.
From 100 Chagga Sayings (Tanzania) compiled by Michael Mushi (May 2005).
If you are not responsible of the work, anyway when you talk of it, it is like nothing; so if you leave, nobody will see your mistake.
You speech died like beer.
Children play with drums and spread in no time.
From 198 Proverbs of Kishubi Language North-West Tanzania along the borders of Tanzania-Rwanda by Nd. Joseph Nkumbulwa and Rev. Max Tertrais.
Great power is adequate for a hard task.
FIRE can soften iron.
FIRE can soften iron.
Proverbs of the Nkundo-Mongo Tribes in Belgian Congo (Zaire) Wilma S. Jaggard Hobgood Department of Africa, Division of Overseas Ministries Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Appearances are deceitful.
Beyond your sphere your importance wanes.
If heedless of warning it is you who will suffer, not I.
Useless to warn one who has made up his mind (set his heart on a matter.)
Labor has sure reward.
There is no hurry about the matter in hand.
As that which breaks the soil comes up, so that spoken comes to pass.
Umbundu Proverbs (Angola) Collected and translated by W.H. Sanders
West Central Africa Mission 1914
West Central Africa Mission 1914
Burning charcoal is turned into ashes.
The alarm from the other house does not prevent one from eating.
No one can perform a celebration by himself.
A debt between children born by the same mother is paid in a clever way.
From A Collection of 104 Kuria Proverbs Northwestern Tanzania near Lake Victoria and Southwestern Kenya in East Africa. Collected and explained by Emmanuel P. Chacha.
The witch is going! The witch is going! but if you are not a witch you don't turn around to look.
It is not only one person who bathes in the witch's water.
If two proverbs are not similar, one is not used to explain the other.
When the palm nuts ripen, you carry half and I carry half.
It is only one bad palm tree that spoils the whole lot of palm wine.
The strength of the palm tree is in its branches.
The army of the palm tree is its branches.
Even though the peel of the palm nut has no pulpy substance in it, it is stripped off all the same (and the oil is extracted).
The prickly branches of the palm tree do not show preference even to friends.
The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best food.
Three Thousand Six Hundred Ghanaian Proverbs
(From the Asante and Fante Language)
J.G. Christaller
(From the Asante and Fante Language)
J.G. Christaller
A stranger does not hold the head of a coffin.
It is because of shame that the harlot does not use the main street of a village.
The person who has gone into a patch of giant-grass does not complain of skin irritation.
A thief does not reap more than the farmer himself.
If a whiteman wants to give you a hat, look at the one he is wearing before you accept it.
The vulture cannot cure baldness, (because if it can it would have cured its own baldness.)
The chicken says, "Fear is life".
Even the longest life ends in a grave, it does not prolong its longevity beyond the grave.
Proverbs in the Ewe Language (West Africa)
Going to a forest, you don't know leads to getting/cutting a stick you don't know.
An ignorant barren animal/woman licks an axe.
What you do not know cannot kill you.
He who does not know a medicine he/she defecates on it.
He who hates growth kills a calf.
Runci (Burundi) Proverbs from The Endangered African Proverbs Collections
Compiled by Jean Dyandwi
Compiled by Jean Dyandwi
If brothers follow the honey bird, they will eat honey.
The lame leg will be used for limping.
Those who eat people, cry; those who eat a crocodile, laugh.
A man is lenient when he is judging his own children (in comparison with others).
Proverbs in the Kaonde Language compiled by John C. Ganly, M.M.
Kindness with words is as readily available as goods in the market
Work very hard at what you do; dine as well as you can afterwards.
It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet.
To fight with everyone can result in shortage of pallbearers at your funeral.
Vast differences among people are in the realm of character, not anatomy.
Selections from "Wit and Wisdom of Ethiopia" Compiled and Presented with Introduction, Annotations by Negussay Ayele.
Have a great day!
Learn: How To Ask
Monday, June 21, 2010
Building Your Future
The best way to build your future is to build yourself. The best way to build your organization is to build your people.
Willie Jolley
Willie Jolley
Nelson Mandela Quotes
As an African, Nelson Mandela is my greatest inspiration. Mandela's story is a well told one. He spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country's first black president. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa's white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. The government outlawed the ANC in 1960. Mandela was captured and jailed in 1962, and in 1964 he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. He began serving the sentence as prisoner 46664 on Robben Island, near Cape Town, but instead of disappearing from view, Mandela became a prison-bound martyr and worldwide symbol of resistance to racism. South African President F.W. de Klerk finally lifted the ban on the ANC and released Mandela in 1990. Mandela used his stature to help dismantle apartheid and form a new multi-racial democracy, and he and de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela was elected the country's president in 1994. He served until 1999, when he was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki. Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, was published in 1994. Here are a few of of change quotes.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Inspire your world!
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Inspire your world!
My Best 10 Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
Here are my best 10 quotes by the best selling author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad Series, Robert Kiyosaki.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
When people are lame, they love to blame.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
Success!
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
When people are lame, they love to blame.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
Success!
Start Going
The moment you're in is plenty. The place where you are is an ideal place from which to move forward.
Ralph Marston
Life Changing Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
When I made the decision to start this blog, my desire was to share with you inspiring quotes by some of the successful people that ever lived. And Norman Vincent Peale is one of such people living today. One of the world’s finest speaker and co-author of the best selling ‘Chicken Soup for The Soul,’ Peale is himself a great inspiration. Here are a few of his quotes that will inspire the success you are already made to be. Enjoy!
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
We tend to get what we expect.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
We tend to get what we expect.
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
It's always too early to quit.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
It's always too early to quit.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Success!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Leadership Quotes
Here are a few quotes on leadership that will inspire you.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David R. Gergen
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
He that cannot obey cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
David R. Gergen
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
He that cannot obey cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
Ross Perot
Ross Perot
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
Harold R. McAlindon
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. Covey
A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David R. Gergen
David R. Gergen
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
Donald H. McGannon
He that cannot obey cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
Harold S. Geneen
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John Maxwell
John Maxwell
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
Warren Bennis
Warren Bennis
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Hesburgh
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf
Robert Greenleaf
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
Lawrence M. Miller
Lawrence M. Miller
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
Warren Bennis
Warren Bennis
And when we think we lead, we are most led.
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
Edwin H. Friedman
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Success!
Edwin H. Friedman
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Success!
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