Food For Thought Quotes

If you believe you can, you can; if you believe you can't, you can't.

~ Alston Gray

Who am I? she snaps. I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing? She waits another long moment, her eyes shining. I'm shutting up and listening. She draws the last word out so it hisses through the air. I am the presidents, the kings, the prime ministers, the highs and the mighties—L-I-S-T-E-N! She spells the word in the air. The woman who made the baklava has something to say to you! Voilà! You see? Now what am I doing? She picks up an imaginary plate, lifts something from it, and takes an invisible bite. Then she closes her eyes and says, Mmm... That is such delicious Arabic-Jordanian-Lebanese-Palestinian baklawa. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! Please will you come to our home now and have some of our food? She puts down the plate and brushes imaginary crumbs from her fingers. So now what did I just do? You ate some baklawa? She curls her hand as if making a point so essential, it can be held only in the tips of the fingers. I looked, I tasted, I spoke kindly and truthfully. I invited. You know what else? I keep doing it. I don't stop if it doesn't work on the first or the second or the third try. And like that! She snaps the apron from the chair into the air, leaving a poof of flour like a wish. There is your peace.

~ Diana Abu-Jaber

Don’t rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Each year comes with its own memories! Memories that make us ponder! Memories that shake our nerves and thought to think about things we did, things we could have done, things we should have done, the right time and timing for the yes and no we could have say with courage or humility, the right time and timing of our steps and things we should have never done! When you remember the year, you remember something! Something good or something bad!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If God is your coach, you score the most amazing and unbelievable goals

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The degree of concentration you give to your dream will determine your success percentage!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In between waking up from bed in the morning and going back in the evening, let something happen. God will bless that “something” for you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Success doesn’t come with ease. As a matter of fact, the darkest lie you may have been told is that you will reap in abundance when you have sowed nothing. It is a big lie!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What you are going to do today should assume a bigger shape than what you have done yesterday.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Bit by bit, whatever you see to be petty becomes plenty.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, don’t keep doing the same things all the time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Raise the bar for yourself, increase, improve and inspire others to do same. Never miss the success of each day!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Waste no time on what you don’t want. Go for what you want. Go for that alone.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never give up on the fight until you win the belt.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t go for good or better, the best is yours, go for it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is more sea in the Western than in the Eastern hemisphere. We say that the firmament is full of stars, as though it were equally full; but we know that there are more stars under the Northern than the Southern pole. We say the element of man are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal proportion of both, and the days of man vicissitudinary, as though he had as many good days as ill, and that he lived under a perpetual equinoctial, night and day equal, good and ill fortune in the same measure. But it is far from that; he drinks in misery, and he tastes happiness; he journeys in misery, he does but walk in happiness: and, which is worstn his misery is positive and dogmatical, his happiness is but disputable and problematical: all men call misery misery, but happiness changes the name by the taste of man.

~ John Donne

Do what you have to do as you must do it, and exert all your noble strength in doing it in so far as it pleases God, and give less attention to the approval or disapproval of men, though put their thoughts into consideration and take the lessons from their thoughts seriously. Factor the thoughts of the masses into changing the face of your vision as you journey to it and be happy and more confident about where you want to get to. Seek not for fame but let it inspire you to the top. Mind your real aim notwithstanding the obstacles and failure you shall meet. Do your best to present your best to God for from Him comes your daily breath!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don’t follow the crowd; you may be missing among them. Go solo. Sometimes, it is better to go alone.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t just manage, go extra mile and win your race. Never give up the fight. You will win.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Many little steps joined one after the other is what makes success possible. Keep doing little stuffs every day. Don’t give up!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As long as you want the belt, don’t run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I see the sunRISE, you too can rise! 

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost land

~ Maria Semple

Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones, you need them to jump up. They should not become beds that should keep you comfortably sleeping.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Those who are growing great are always asking “why?” If they fail or lose, they ask “why?” If they succeed or win too, they ask “why?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of person you are.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you have answers to the “whys”, it will direct you to the “hows”. As simple as that!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you are idle, ask “why?” If you feel like life is boring for you, ask “why?” When you get into a disappointment, ask “why?” Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask “why?

~ Israelmore Ayivor