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The greatest warriors fight not for crowns and splendor, but for love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
— Stephen Covey
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
— Donald Trump
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
— Thomas Edison
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
— Thomas Merton
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton