- "To do whatever you want to do, that is the strength of the human will, to think whatever you want to think, that is the beauty of the human mind, to trust yourself to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed". - Bernand Edmund.

"The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit." - Jim Rohn

"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well". - Descartes.

"Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison." - Buddha

"The best effects of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence". Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs." President Vaclav Havel - Former Czecks Republic President

"The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you're not going to stay where you are. You make the world you live in and shape your own environment. Avoid people that try to belittle your ambition. Small people always seem to do that. Place yourself in the presence of successful people for they will make you feel that you, too, can become successful. Your environment is the mental feeding ground from which the food that goes into your mind is extracted. Choose your environment with care, one that is positive, one that lifts you up and empowers you to achieve your goals. First we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape [email protected]

"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.-Charles R. Swindoll

"If you have quality and ability it doesn't matter - unless you have desire and commitment and go out and express yourself, you won't get anywhere." - Thiery Henry (Arsenal Football Club Striker) - One of the World's Best Soccer Player in recent times.

"As long as you believe, then it is possible. It's a fantastic moment. I always had that dream and to fulfil it is marvellous." - Arsene Wenger - Arsenal Football Club's Manager - On Winning the English Premiership League unbeaten in all the 38 matches played in the 2003 - 2004 League Season

"When the players all reacted the way they did to me, they knew it was a good goal. But they, and I, knew how important it was for the team. Whatever you do, whatever conditions you play in, it is not just about talent, it is about being professional - working hard and dedicating yourself to the team. Having said that, this was one of the best things I have done. The third goal was not instinct, I did think about what to do. I was never going to cross but I thought I would try my luck because there was no keeper on the front post. From the instant I went past Ed de Goey, my mind was on how to score. There were two men on the line, I knew that, but I believed that even if I mis-hit it, at worst, then it might create something." - Nwankwo Kanu (On scoring a hat trick against Chelsea on the 23rd October, 1999, his club was 2 goals down and with fifteen minutes remaining, scored three goals! In fact, the third goal came on the 90th minute of the match)

"It has been difficult for some people to have confidence in me... BUT I KNOW THAT LIFE SOMETIMES GIVE YOU THE CHANCE TO PROVE YOURSELF" - Cesc Fabregas (On scoring the winning goal ofthe penalty shoot - out in the match against Italy at the Euro 2008 finals

�Yes. They were very hard words. You hear them once and you try to move away. But then you hear them twice, and then a third time... I am a man and some words are harder to hear than actions. I would rather have taken a blow to the face than hear that. Yes. I reacted and of course it is not a gesture you should do. I must say that strongly. It was seen by two or three billion people watching on television and millions and millions of children. It was an inexcusable gesture and to them, and the people in education whose job it is to show children what they should and shouldn't do, I want to apologise. I can't regret it because if I do it would be like admitting that he was right to say all that. And above all, it was not right. We always talk about the reaction, and inevitably it must be punished. But if there is no provocation, there is no reaction. First of all you have to say there is provocation, and the guilty one is the one who does the provoking. The response is to always punish the reaction, but if I react, something has happened. Do you imagine that in a World Cup final like that, with just 10 minutes to go to the end of my career, I am going to do something like that because it gives me pleasure? There was provocation, and it was very serious, that is all. My action was inexcusable but you have to punish the real culprit, and the real culprit is the one who provoked it. Voila." (Zidane�s answers to interviews from a French TV after being provoked to �head butting� an Italian player in the final of the World Cup 2006; a match which marked the end of Zidane�s international soccer career)

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance". - Benjamin Franklin

"Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments". - Kevin Costner

""To try and to fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been." - Chester Barnard

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -Thomas Paine

"Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have attained would do well to remember the depths from which we started". - Anonymous

"To be faithful to an ideal of virtue! A heroic martyrdom! Pshaw! every one believes in virtue, but who is virtuous? Nations have made an idol of Liberty, but what nation on the face of the earth is free? My youth is still like a blue and cloudless sky. If I set myself to obtain wealth or power, does it mean that I must make up my mind to lie, and fawn, and cringe, and swagger, and flatter, and dissemble? To consent to be the servant of others who have likewise fawned, and lied, and flattered? Must I cringe to them before I can hope to be their accomplice? Well, then, I decline. I mean to work nobly and with a single heart. I will work day and night; I will owe my fortune to nothing but my own exertions. It may be the slowest of all roads to success, but I shall lay my head on the pillow at night untroubled by evil thoughts. Is there a greater thing than this--to look back over your life and know that it is stainless as a lily? I and my life are like a young man and his betrothed." - Honore de Balzac(Old Man Goriot)

"A man of true greatness never loses his child's heart - Mencius

"Occasionally we hear anecdotal accounts about individuals who grew up in troubled homes but fought against all odds and became very wealthy. 'Such stories are sometimes cited as evidence that they made the best of a bad thing, turning out well despite or because of their unhappy childhoods,' explains a report on happiness in the San Francisco Chronicle. 'The problem with this interpretation, according to research, is that they may not have turned out so well after all. They just turned out wealthy'" (Awake Magazine, April 2006 on Happiness)

"I have been educated to understand that when you have ten pounds you don't spend eleven and I've respected that all my life in both football and my private life." - Arsene Wenger - AFC Manager

"I feel very angry because it has all been done so quickly�We have no right to defend ourselves. You can say 'OK, I will lie down every time the FA says something even if it is wrong.� But I don't accept that...after 25 years in this game, I feel I should be able to speak like it is and to say what is right and wrong...I don't want to go so far as to say they have got it in for us. If it is that, it is so sad that it is not worth talking about. The only thing I will say is that the numbers are there. We are the team which commits less fouls against our opponents, but we are the team that gets punished more. For every five fouls we get a yellow card. There are some teams who only get a yellow card every twelve fouls. So we must be very clumsy. We who live in top level football fight every three days to be competitive and I don't think we are on the same wavelength with the FA on that. The FA has one responsibility, IT IS TO RESPECT FOOTBALL." - Arsene Wenger - (Arsenal Football Club Manager - One of the best footballing/Soccer Coach of all time! The coach that has made the beautiful game more beautiful to behold and fascinating to approach.)

"Bestow thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof, whilst thou art young thou wilt think it shall never come to an end, but behold, the longest day hath its evening and thou shalt enjoy it but once it turns never again, use it therefore as the springs time which soon departeth and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life". - Sir Walter Raleigh

"The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes We may discern -- unseen before -- A path to higher destinies."Longfellow

"All men dream but not equally, those who dream by night in the duty recesses of their minds, wake up to find out in the day that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are...men who act out their dreams with open eyes to make it true". - T. E. Lawrence".

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that "achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying." Always aim for achievement and forget about success. -Helen Hayes.

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -Albert Einstein

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." - Ann Landers

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." - Theodore Rubin

"He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass" - George Herbert

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places." -Ernest Hemingway

"People try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own." - Jeffrey Gitomer

"Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much as - I did - if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I'll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die. -Thomas Edison (worth more than $2 billion by the end of his life)

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -Leonardo DaVinci

"After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live. -Vince Lombardi

"Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life." -Leo Buscaglia

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite." - Robert Half

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this." -The Impossible Dream

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as being able to remake ourselves"

"Doubt sees the obstacles faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step Faith soars on high. Doubt questions 'who believes?' Faith answers, 'I.'" -Anonymous

"Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart - cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless." from "A Creed to Live By" by Nancye Sims

"Paint a portrait of life to be proud of that could not be sold for all the money on earth. Hang that portrait in your mind and understand its ever presence. Reflect on every brush stroke that makes all the mountains and valleys and rivers and skies the most beautiful in the land. Share your portrait with others but beware their brushes. Select only those whose brush will add to the beauty and structure of your masterpiece." - Chris Ensor

"Tired? - she thought; even the strain of walking was a value, a small piece of reality in the stillness around them. The sensation of effort was a specific experience, it was pain and could be nothing else - in the midst of a space which was neither light nor dark, a soil which neither gave nor resisted, a fog which neither moved nor hung still. Their strain was the only evidence of their motion: nothing changed in the emptiness around them, nothing took form to mark their progress. SHE HAD ALWAYS WONDERED, IN INCREDULOUS CONTEMPT, ABOUT THE SECTS THAT PREACHED THE ANNIHILATION OF THE UNIVERSE AS THE IDEAL TO BE ATTAINED. There, she thought, was their world and the content of their minds made real. (Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - The greatest book ever written by a single individual)

"If this country (Nigeria) is going to change, if anything is going to work, we have to fight corruption, we have to establish the rule of law and order...We cannot do it alone, because we are fighting the power, the authority, those with the money, and we need those who are good, who understand the need of such things to stand by us" - Nuhu Ribadu EFCC Chairman

"[21] But behold, Satan did stir up the hearts of the more part of the Nephites, insomuch that they did unite with those bands of robbers, and did enter into their covenants and their oaths, that they would protect and preserve one another in whatsoever difficult circumstances they should be placed, that they should not suffer for their murders, and their plunderings, and their stealings. [22] And it came to pass that they did have their signs, yea, their secret signs, and their secret words; and this that they might distinguish a brother who had entered into the covenant, that whatsoever wickedness his brother should do he should not be injured by his brother, nor by those who did belong to his band, who had taken this covenant. [23] And thus they might murder, and plunder, and steal, and commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness, contrary to the laws of their country and also the laws of their God. [24] And whosoever of those who belonged to their band should reveal unto the world of their wickedness and their abominations, should be tried, not according to the laws of their country, but according to the laws of their wickedness, which had been given by Gadianton and Kishkumen. - BOOK OF MORMON (HELAMAN 6 v 21 - 24)

"[28] O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish. [29] But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God. [30] But wo unto the rich, who are rich as to the things of the world. For because they are rich they despise the poor, and they persecute the meek, and their hearts are upon their treasures; wherefore, their treasure is their God. And behold, their treasure shall perish with them also." - BOOK OF MORMON (2 NEPHI 9 V 28 - 30)

"Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life".- Holy Bible

"Wisdom is the finest beauty of a person. - Ifa, The Yoruba Oracle.