"Adversity is a crossroads that makes a..." - Quote by John C Maxwell

“Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.”

“We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?”

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”

“Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?”

“Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days.[Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]”

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

“I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.”

“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.”