Food For Thought Quotes

The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Friends who mock your dreams are not qualified to keep dusting your door step with their footprints every time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My dad once said... Some friends are like rubber wrappers; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much. Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. Never fear to have a decrease in the number of your friends if you should maintain the truth…

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Now-people” are winners; they say “now” and they do it now! That’s the spirit we need, my friends. If you have the goals and the environment is clear enough, go ahead and do it now!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Watch out! Someone taught me that I should watch the people in my boat; some may be rolling the boat while others may be drilling holes under it! So, am determined to watch my circle!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In every little boy child is hidden a great man, in every little girl child is hidden as great woman. God hides great things in little things and it takes the Holy Spirit of God get them unveil!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are no big men and big women. There are small people with big dreams and extra larger passion!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some activities may look attractive, but you don’t have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it’s a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all choices are brewed.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don’t bring yourself low in order to please those who envy you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your dreams can earn you money and provision when you don’t only have fans, but customers.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to make the world a better place.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; “that business minded people can meet there easily! Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

They call it business because it does not become successful by a person's idleness. Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities with regards to their pastor's messages. I think if every pastor should have entrepreneurial knowledge coupled with spiritual integrity, Africa will shake!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Just preaching you are blessed to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly, Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

~ Shel Silverstein

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

~ Knut Hamsun

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.

~ Ruth Harrison

A little thank you that you will say to someone for a little favour shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen greater favours. Learn to say thank you and why not?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Giving does not only preceed receiving, it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.

~ Israelmore Ayivor