Extra Mile Quotes

The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you fall down, rise up. When you fall again, rise up again. This is just a developmental process that makes a healthy baby become a successful man.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a step ahead with what is in your hands.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Me: I am very busy now. Can you please excuse me for few minutes?She: Oh ok. But why are you sweating all over your body?Me: I am very busy, that is why. I am dreaming extra-large dreams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As long as the constitution of my country is not amended to cut down the sizes of the dreams of its citizens, I have the freedom to dream extra largest dreams. I am even dreaming over-size dreams now.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit, only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you get there to do be done and let it be done well!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stop blaming people for not helping you to solve your problems. The question is simple are they the ones in the problem with you? People may teach you, people may advise you, people may inspire you, but it takes YOU to go the extra mile and make an indelible impact!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

~ David Pietrusza

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

~ Tom Clancy

Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may be sitting; but don't sit! Many people may be standing; but don't just stand. When you stand, be outstanding!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.

~ Sartika Kurniali

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor