Food For Thought Quotes

Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your relationships will either empower you to overcome obstacles, or put fears in you so you can run away from them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Until you do your best, don't try to take a rest. Until you take a leap, don't try to sleep. Until you top, don't try to stop.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are solutions conscious. They don’t complain. You would find them repeating this common question; “how will it be done, and by who?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders do not chase comfort, they pursue vision even if it comes with risks. Don’t give up too early because you see not early rewards.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader in 10 minutes can unlock your potentials which in reality would have taken you 10 years to do without them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader’s attitude tells how often he will be the winner, his character determines how long he will be the winner.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the greatest secrets of great leaders, 'they are not controlled by what they cannot do'. They directed by what they can.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Plant your tiny seeds and keep watering them every day. Soon, they’ll grow.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, concentrate on the work at hand at the moment. Do it and do it well.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: all this golden sunlight brought down to earth, captured in kernels of gold, and rendered fit for mortals to eat. But of course this is no myth at all, just the plain miraculous fact.

~ Michael Pollan

Nature always waits in the wings and the winds, ready to pounce with all of its power just at that sloppily contented hour when you foolishly assume it to be plainly tired out. Narcissistic humans do their quite pathetic best to kill nature off, oblivious to their self-reliance on its upkeep, yet nature will only take so much bureaucratic bullying before it snaps a deadly snap - for it does not need your approval, your organised banditry, your prepubescent social laws, your trades of cheapening commerce, your militant preachment, your apologies or blind belief of superiority... as if a presidential seat gives you an intolerable presumption of dominance over this earth's terrain!

~ Morrissey

Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.

~ Israelmore Ayivor