Wisdom Quotes Quotes

Your life today is a direct reflection of the decisions you made and the actions you took.

~ Mensah Oteh

Your vision helps you filter your decisions or choices and directs your actions.

~ Mensah Oteh

Your vision is a glimpse of your purpose and a picture of your larger dream.

~ Mensah Oteh

If my friend asks me to sit in a temple belonging to a God that I do not know, because he needs a friend to sit with him, I will be happy to sit there in the foreign temple. Because the temple itself is an outer container only. What is the true religion? What is the inner oil contained by that outer container? The inner oil is the friendship I share with my friend. The true religion is being there to sit beside my friend. If I cannot do this for my friend, then how am I worthy to sit in any temple, whether belonging to a God that I know or to a God that I don't know? If there is no inner oil within my soul, I do not deserve to sit in any temple. Religion is the friendship within the heart, not the place where we sit on a holy day. Religion is the oil within the lamp, not the metal container we see as the lamp.

~ C. Joybell C.

Waiting is often a decision not to accept responsibility and is one of the reasons why some people never reach their potential.

~ Mensah Oteh

The moment you choose to be accountable for all outcomes in your life, you distance yourself from the position of a victim and assume the role of a change agent.

~ Mensah Oteh

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

~ Mensah Oteh

We all have within ourselves the inclination to try to pass the blame to others when things don’t work in our favour. The ultimate challenge comes from suppressing this innate desire and replacing it with accountability and ownership for all things, good or bad.

~ Mensah Oteh

One of the greatest obstacles to success is the belief is that your future is predetermined. It isn’t. You decide the outcomes through your decisions and actions.

~ Mensah Oteh

It’s easy to play the victim card (all of us have done this), but this mindset is one of the greatest obstacles to progress and growth.

~ Mensah Oteh

Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life.

~ Mensah Oteh

Ideas and dreams are only valuable after they have been acted on.

~ Mensah Oteh

A mediocre idea acted on is of more value than a handful of brilliant ideas that remain in your mind.

~ Mensah Oteh

Talent alone does nothing, dreams and incredible ideas alone do nothing. Action is needed to create change.

~ Mensah Oteh

To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take consistent and improved action over a defined period.

~ Mensah Oteh

Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success. When combined with proper planning and perseverance, there are no heights you cannot attain.

~ Mensah Oteh

The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success.

~ Mensah Oteh

You may spend much time and energy in preparation that you forget that the most important and essential step is action.

~ Mensah Oteh

Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.

~ Mensah Oteh

Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.

~ Mensah Oteh

Consistency in action is an essential component of success.

~ Mensah Oteh

To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take massive action over a long period, even when there is no evidence of progress.

~ Mensah Oteh

You're only as good as your last thought of yourself.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.

~ Germany Kent

I thank God every day for this life, and I want there to be more, though that’s not known. What is known is that I’m alive today, this minute. And that’s pretty much what we all have – this day, this moment.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

We all die. Not all of us live.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

If I’ve learned anything from facing death, it is that life is not meant to be survived. Life is the greatest adventure there is. And why stop your adventuring when someone says the end may be near? The truth is, we never know when the end will actually come. None of us will avoid it forever. What’s the point in trying? Live fearlessly!

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

A long walk is a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is, God is everywhere and in everything. Wherever I look I am looking at God.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed.” The prayer was accompanied by a vision straight out of Braveheart, a line of Scottish Highland warriors in kilts with huge shields and long spears marching in brave unison and attacking and killing the cancer. They were advancing, towards the cancer, striking and killing it with strong accurate thrusts from their sharp spears. The vision was so strong I could hear marching feet, and visibly see the cancer in me dying. “Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed,” became my constant prayer. The prayer awakened with me each day, coming on the wings of the morning. It followed in my heart through the day, and was on my lips as I drifted to sleep at night.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, you’re not sick. I decided right then and there that no matter what cancer did to me I would continue to move. Movement was what the physical body was designed to do; it was how it coped and functioned. Movement was vitality. It was life.I would move. Always. No matter what. Until my last breath, I would move.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

I started to walk the day I was told I was dying of cancer. I believe walking has kept me alive. I live with a constant, pressing awareness of death. Once I start to walk, I am not afraid anymore; all is well.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

I came to realize we are held in the arms of God and are utterly completely safe - in life and in death, whether walking alone or with others.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

I walk to rid myself of the terror of cancer, and to overcome the fear of it coming back. The fear may never completely fade, but actively engaging life – whatever that may involve – reminds me of the joy each day can bring.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.

~ Edie Littlefield Sundby

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

~ Aberjhani

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

~ Ken Poirot

With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are.

~ Randall Marr

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

~ Suzy Kassem