Miseries Behind Ability/Gifts

Miseries Behind Ability/Gifts

Gifts is from God.

Every personality on earth has a specific gift been impacted since the day they where born.

Knowing your gifts and ability is needful if you can excel in your careers and life Endeavor's.

Never look down on yourself, be positive about yourself and prevent inferiority complex.

When you are confronted/obstacles in life, stand up and face it squarely without fear.

Your ability can only be activated when you discover it.

Composed By Emmy

Business Thoughts

Business Thoughts!!!

Your success in any business enterprise depend upon your thoughts, mindset & thinking's.

When you focus on the negative side in business, your aim of starting that business cannot be attained.

Stay Positive is all life's endeavours......

By Emmy

Business Excellence

Intro:
Most people think making a business to work is just is small task not at all it demands excellence and expertise.

Hints for Excellence:
1. Undergo training on your specified business  idea.
2. Commitment in business.
3. Choose a good business environment.
4. Choose your client/customers.
5. Good relationship between you and your clients/customers.

In all make God your priority...

By Emmy

XENOPHOBIA IN SOUTH AFRICA before 1994

XENOPHOBIA IN SOUTH AFRICA before 1994

From Wikipedia

Introduction

Prior to 1994, immigrants from elsewhere faced discrimination and even violence in South Africa. After majority rule in 1994, contrary to expectations, the incidence of xenophobia increased.^[1] Between 2000 and March 2008, at least 67 people died in what were identified as xenophobic attacks. In May 2008, a series of attacks left 62 people dead; although 21 of those killed were South African citizens. The attacks were motivated by xenophobia.^[2] In 2015, another nationwide spike in xenophobic attacks against immigrants in general prompted a number of foreign governments to begin repatriating their citizens.^[3] A Pew Research poll conducted in 2018 showed that 62% of South Africans viewed immigrants as a burden on society by taking jobs and social benefits and that 61% of South Africans thought that immigrants were more responsible for crime than other groups.^[4] Between 2010 and 2017 the immigrant community in South Africa increased from 2 million people to 4 million people.

Xenophobia in South Africa before 1994

Attacks against Mozambican and Congolese immigrants

Between 1984 and the end of hostilities in that country, an estimated 50,000 to 350,000 Mozambicans fled to South Africa. While never granted refugee status they were technically allowed to settle in the bantustans or black homelands created during the apartheid system. The reality was more varied, with the homeland of Lebowa banning Mozambican settlers outright while Gazankulu welcomed the refugees with support in the form of land and equipment. Those in Gazankulu, however, found themselves confined to the homeland and liable for deportation should they officially enter South Africa, and evidence exists that their hosts denied them access to economic resources.^[5]

Unrest and civil war likewise saw large numbers of Congolese people emigrate to South Africa, many illegally, in 1993 and 1997. Subsequent studies found indications of xenophobic attitudes towards these refugees, typified by them being denied access to the primary healthcare to which they were technically entitled.^[5]

Xenophobia in South Africa after 1994

Despite a lack of directly comparable data, xenophobia in South Africa is perceived to have significantly increased after the election of a Black majority government in 1994.^[6] According to a 2004 study published by the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP):

The ANC government – in its attempts to overcome the divides of the past and build new forms of social cohesion ... embarked on an aggressive and inclusive nation-building project. One unanticipated by-product of this project has been a growth in intolerance towards outsiders ... Violence against foreign citizens and African refugees has become increasingly common and communities are divided by hostility and suspicion.^[7]

The study was based on a citizen survey across member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and found South Africans expressing the harshest anti-immigrant sentiment, with 21% of South Africans in favour of a complete ban on foreign entry and 64% in favour of strict limitations on the numbers permitted. By contrast, the next-highest proportion of respondents in favour of a complete ban on immigration were in neighbouring Namibia, and Botswana, at 10%.

Foreigners and the South African Police Service

A 2004 study by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) of attitudes amongst police officers in the Johannesburg area found that 87% of respondents believed that most undocumented immigrants in Johannesburg are involved in crime, despite there being no statistical evidence to substantiate the perception. Such views combined with the vulnerability of illegal aliens led to abuse, including violence and extortion, some analysts argued.^[8]

In a March 2007 meeting with Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, a representative of Burundian refugees in Durban; claimed that immigrants could not rely on police for protection, but instead found police mistreating them, stealing from them and making unconfirmed allegations that they sell drugs.^[9] Two years earlier, at a similar meeting in Johannesburg, Mapisa-Nqakula had admitted that refugees and asylum seekers were mistreated by police with xenophobic attitudes.^[10]

Violence before May 2008

According to a 1998 Human Rights Watch report, immigrants from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique living in the Alexandra township were "physically assaulted over a period of several weeks in January 1995, as armed gangs identified suspected undocumented migrants and marched them to the police station in an attempt to 'clean' the township of foreigners."^[11][12] The campaign, known as "Buyelekhaya" (go back home), blamed foreigners for crime, unemployment and sexual attacks.^[13]

In September 1998, a Mozambican national and two Senegalese citizens were thrown out of a train. The assault was carried out by a group returning from a rally that blamed foreigners for unemployment, crime and the spread of AIDS.^[14]

In 2000, seven foreigners were killed on the Cape Flats over a five-week period in what police described as xenophobic murders possibly motivated by the fear that outsiders would claim property belonging to locals.^[15]

In October 2001, residents of the Zandspruit informal settlement gave Zimbabwean citizens ten days to leave the area. When the foreigners failed to leave voluntarily, they were forcefully evicted and their shacks were burned down and looted. Community members said they were angry that Zimbabweans were employed whilst locals remained jobless and blamed the foreigners for a number of crimes. No injuries were reported amongst the affected Zimbabweans.^[16]

In the last week of 2005 and first week of 2006, at least four people, including two Zimbabweans, died in the Olievenhoutbosch settlement after foreigners were blamed for the death of a local man. Shacks belonging to foreigners were set alight and locals demanded that police remove all immigrants from the area.^[17]

In August 2006, Somali refugees appealed for protection after 21 Somali traders were killed in July of that year and 26 more in August. The immigrants believed the murders to be motivated by xenophobia, although police rejected the assertion of a concerted campaign to drive Somali traders out of townships in the Western Cape.^[18]

Attacks on foreign nationals increased markedly in late-2007^[6] and it is believed that there were at least a dozen attacks between January and May 2008.^[19] The most severe incidents occurred on 8 January 2008 when two Somali shop owners were murdered in the Eastern Cape towns of Jeffreys Bay and East London, then in March 2008 when seven people were killed including Zimbabweans, Pakistanis and a Somali national after their shops and shacks were set alight in Atteridgeville near Pretoria

Spread of violence

On 12 May 2008 a series of riots started in the township of Alexandra (in the north-eastern part of Johannesburg) when locals attacked migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing two people and injuring 40 others.^[6][21] Some attackers were reported to have been singing Jacob Zuma's campaign song Umshini Wami (Zulu: "Bring Me My Machine Gun").^[22]

In the following weeks the violence spread, first to other settlements in the Gauteng Province, then to the coastal cities of Durban^[23] and Cape Town.^[6]

Attacks were also reported in parts of the Southern Cape,^[24] Mpumalanga,^[25] the North West and Free State.^[26]

Popular opposition to xenophobia

In Khutsong in Gauteng and the various shack settlements governed by Abahlali baseMjondolo in KwaZulu-Natal social movements were able to ensure that there were no violent attacks.^[6][27] The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign also organised campaigns against xenophobia. Pallo Jordan argues that "Active grass-roots interventions contained the last wave of xenophobia".^[28]

Causes

A report by the Human Sciences Research Council identified four broad causes for the violence:

• relative deprivation, specifically intense competition for jobs, commodities and housing;
• group processes, including psychological categorisation processes that are nationalistic rather than superordinate^[29]
• South African exceptionalism, or a feeling of superiority in relation to other Africans; and
• exclusive citizenship, or a form of nationalism that excludes others.^[30]

A subsequent report, "Towards Tolerance, Law and Dignity: Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa" commissioned by the International Organisation for Migration found that poor service delivery or an influx of foreigners may have played a contributing role, but blamed township politics for the attacks.^[31][32] It also found that community leadership was potentially lucrative for unemployed people, and that such leaders organised the attacks.^[33] Local leadership could be illegitimate and often violent when emerging from either a political vacuum or fierce competition, the report said, and such leaders enhanced their authority by reinforcing resentment towards foreigners.^[34]

Aftermath

1400 suspects were arrested in connection with the violence. Nine months after the attacks 128 individuals had been convicted and 30 found not guilty in 105 concluded court cases. 208 cases had been withdrawn and 156 were still being heard.^[35]

One year after the attacks prosecutors said that 137 people had been convicted, 182 cases had been withdrawn because witnesses or complainants had left the country, 51 cases were underway or ready for trial and 82 had been referred for further investigation.^[36]

In May 2009, one year after the attacks the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (Cormsa) said that foreigners remained under threat of violence and that little had been done to address the causes of the attacks. The organisation complained of a lack of accountability for those responsible for public violence, insufficient investigations into the instigators and the lack of a public government inquiry.^[37]

Refugee camps and reintegration question

After being housed in temporary places of safety (including police stations and community halls) for three weeks, those who fled the violence were moved into specially established temporary camps.^[38] Conditions in some camps were condemned on the grounds of location and infrastructure,^[39] highlighting their temporary nature.

The South African government initially adopted a policy of quickly reintegrating refugees into the communities they originally fled^[40] and subsequently set a deadline in July 2008, by which time refugees would be expected to return to their communities or countries of origin.^[41] After an apparent policy shift the government vowed that there would be no forced reintegration of refugees^[42] and that the victims would not be deported, even if they were found to be illegal immigrants.^[43]

In May 2009, one year after the attacks, the City of Cape Town said it would apply for an eviction order to force 461 remaining refugees to leave two refugee camps in that city.^[44]

Domestic political reaction

On 21 May, then-President Thabo Mbeki approved a request from the SAPS for deployment of armed forces against the attacks in Gauteng.^[45] It is the first time that the South African government has ordered troops out to the streets in order to quell unrest since the end of apartheid in the early 1990s.^[46]

Several political parties blamed each other, and sometimes other influences, for the attacks. The Gauteng provincial branch of the ANC has alleged that the violence is politically motivated by a "third hand" that is primarily targeting the ANC for the 2009 general elections.^[47] Both the Minister of Intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils, and the director general of the National Intelligence Agency, Manala Manzini, backed the Gauteng ANC's allegations that the anti-immigrant violence is politically motivated and targeted at the ANC.^[47] Referring to published allegations by one rioter that he was being paid to commit violent acts against immigrants, Manzini said that the violence was being stoked primarily within hostel facilities by a third party with financial incentives.

Helen Zille, leader of the official opposition party the Democratic Alliance (DA), pointed to instances of crowds of rioters singing "Umshini wami", a song associated then-president of the ANC Jacob Zuma,^[48] and noted that the rioters also hailed from the rank and file of the ANC Youth League. She alleged that Zuma had promised years before to his supporters to take measures against the immigration of foreign nationals to South Africa and that Zuma's most recent condemnation of the riots and distancing from the anti-immigration platform was not enough of a serious initiative against the participation of fellow party members in the violence.^[49] Both Zille and the parliamentary leader of the DA, Sandra Botha, slammed the ANC for shifting the blame concerning the violence to a "third hand", which is often taken in South African post-apartheid political discourse as a reference to pro-apartheid or allegedly pro-apartheid organisations.

Zuma, in turn, condemned both the attacks and the Mbeki government's response to the attacks; Zuma also lamented the usage of his trademark song Umshini wami by the rioters.^[48] Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe called for the creation of local committees to combat violence against foreigners.^[50][51]

Zille was also criticised by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel for being quoted in the Cape Argus as saying that foreigners were responsible for a bulk of the drug trade in South Africa.^[52]

In KwaZulu-Natal province, Bheki Cele, provincial community safety minister, blamed the Inkatha Freedom Party, a nationalist Zulu political party, for stoking and capitalising on the violence in Durban.^[53] Both Cele and premier S'bu Ndebele claimed that IFP members had attacked a tavern that catered to Nigerian immigrants en route to a party meeting. The IFP, which is based primarily in the predominantly ethnically-Zulu KwaZulu-Natal province, rejected the statements, and had, on 20 May, engaged in an anti-xenophobia meeting with the ANC.^[54]

Radical grassroots movements and organisations came out strongly against the 2008 xenophobic attacks calling them pogroms promoted by government and political parties.^[55] Some have claimed that local politicians and police have sanctioned the attacks.^[56] At they time they also called for the closure of the Lindela Repatriation Centre which is seen as an example of the negative way the South African government treats African foreigners.^{[57] [58]} Grassroots groups like Abahlali baseMjondolo and the South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement also opposed the latest round of xenophobic attacks in 2015.^[59]

International reaction

The attacks were condemned by a wide variety of organisations and government leaders throughout Africa and the rest of the world.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees expressed concerns about the violence and urged the South African government to cease deportation of Zimbabwean nationals and also to allow the refugees and asylum seekers to regularise their stay in the country.^[60]

Malawi began repatriation of some of its nationals in South Africa. The Mozambican government sponsored a repatriation drive that saw the registration of at least 3 275 individuals.^[61]

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WORDS OF WISDOM/QUOTES

WORDS OF WISDOM/QUOTES By Semas

1.     Accomplish

• "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
  —Muhammad Ali
• “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
  —Abraham Lincoln
• “Here I am . . . wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end—that there is such a thing as death.”
  —Leo Tolstoy

2. Action

• "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
  —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
  —Thomas Jefferson
• “The path to success is to take massive, determined actions.”
  —Tony Robbins

3. Ambition

• "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
  —Bill Bradley
• “Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.”
  —Frank Tyger
• “A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
  —Marcus Aurelius

4. Believe

• "Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution."
  —David Joseph Schwartz
• “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
  —Roy T. Bennett
• "Believing in yourself is not for you; it's for every person who has touched your life in a significant way and for every person your life will touch the same way five minutes from now, or five centuries from now."
  —Jaye Miller

5. Clarity

• "Clarity precedes success."
  —Robin Sharma
• “A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.”
  —Steve Maraboli
• “Clarity affords focus.”
  —Thomas Leonard

6. Challenge

• "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  —Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.”
  —Bette Davis
• “I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.”
  —Nadia Comaneci

7. Commitment

• "Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."
  —Haile Gebrselassie
• “Commitment is an act, not a word.”
  —Jean-Paul Sartre
• “Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.”
  —Abraham Lincoln

8. Confidence

• "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
  —Helen Keller
• "Self-confidence is the memory of success."
  —David Storey
• “Without self-confidence, we are as babes in the cradle.”
  —Virginia Woolf

9. Courage

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
  —Winston Churchill
• “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
  —Maya Angelou
• “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
  —Mark Twain

10. Dare

• "Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail."
  —Lester B. Pearson
• "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
  —Theodore Roosevelt
• "Dare to dream, but even more importantly, dare to put action behind your dreams."
  —Josh Hinds

11. Determination

• "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
  —Og Mandino
• “A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”
  —Mahatma Gandhi
• “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
  —Mario Andretti

12. Drive

• "You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support."
  —Sabrina Bryan
• "The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."
  —Tommy Hilfiger
• "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
  —Jack Welch

13. Envision

• "The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
  —Arnold Schwarzenegger
• “Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.”
  —Dorthea Brande
• "I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me."
  —Lady Gaga

14. Excellence

• "Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."
  —Ralph Marston
• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
  —Aristotle
• “Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.”
  —Abdul Kalam

15. Focus

• "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
  —Aristotle
• “I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.”
  —Zig Ziglar
• “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.”
  —Ralph Marston

16. Forgive

• "Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right; it makes you free."
  —Stormie Omartian
• “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
  —Mark Twain
• “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
  —Mahatma Gandhi

17. Fulfillment

• "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."
  —Tony Robbins
• “If you devote yourself entirely to a noble pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.”
  —Daniel Gillies
• “True happiness is a state of fulfillment.”
  —Ashish Sophat

18. Goals

• "Set your goals high, and don't stop 'til you get there."
  —Bo Jackson
• “Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”
  —Jim Rohn
• “If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”
  —Les Brown

19. Gratitude

• “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
  —Henri Frederic Amiel
• “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
  —Gilbert K. Chesterton
• “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”
  —Zig Ziglar

20. Honesty

• "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
  —Thomas Jefferson
• “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
  —John Lennon
• “Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.”
  —Mother Theresa

21. Hope

• "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
  —Desmond Tutu
• "We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."
  —Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life."
  —Emil Brunner

22. Imagination

• "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
  —Albert Einstein
• "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
  —Carl Sagan
• "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever."
  —Walt Disney

23. Improve

• "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."
  —Ralph Marston
• “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
  —Ernest Hemingway
• “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.”
  —Anthony J. D'Angelo

24. Inspiration

• "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
  —Thomas A. Edison
• "Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."
  —Deep Roy
• "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
  —Jack London

25. Joy

• "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
  —Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”
  —Joseph Campbell
• "The soul’s joy lies in doing.”
  —Percy Bysshe Shelley

26. Kindness

• "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
  —Mark Twain
• "One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
  —Sophocles
• "There’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
  —Scott Adams

27. Knowledge

• "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
  —Benjamin Franklin
• "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
  —Kofi Annan
• "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
  —Henry David Thoreau

28. Listen

• "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
  —Epictetus
• "Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply."
  —Stephen Covey
• "There is only one role for being a good talker—learn to listen."
  —Christopher Morley

29. Mindfulness

• "With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."
  —Nhat Hanh
• "Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."
  —Nhat Hanh
• "Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that."
  —Jon Kabat-Zinn

30. Mission

• "To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal."
  —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• "Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."
  —Zig Ziglar
• "My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission."
  —Robert Kiyosaki

31. Nurture

• "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
  —Benjamin Disraeli
• "The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul."
  —Alfred Austin
• "If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more."
  —Brian Koslow

32. Opportunity

• "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
  —Henry Ford
• "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
  —Bobby Unser
• "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
  —Milton Berle

33. Outstanding

• "Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."
  —Zig Ziglar
• "Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts."
  —Paul Johnson
• "The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."
  —Tony Robbins

34. Passion

• "Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks."
  —Yo Yo Ma
• "Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams."
  —Donovan Bailey
• "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
  —Oprah Winfrey

35. Patience

• "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
  —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
  —Leo Tolstoy
• "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
  —Saadi

36. Perseverance

• "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
  —Newt Gingrich
• "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
  —Julie Andrews
• "No one succeeds without effort . . . Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."
  —Ramana Maharshi

37. Practice

• "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."
  —Vince Lombardi
• "Everything is practice."
  —Pele
• "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
  —Mahatma Gandhi

38. Prioritize

• "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
  —Stephen Covey
• "Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important."
  —Aisha Tyler
• "The best we can do is prioritize our needs and make choices accordingly."
  —Janet Evanovich

39. Question

• "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
  —Bruce Lee
• "Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."
  —Euripides
• "By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth."
  —Peter Abelard

40. Self-Control

• "By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."
  —Grenville Kleiser
• "Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill."
  —Travis Bradberry
• "Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."
  —Franz Kafka

41. Skill

• "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
  —Wilbur Wright
• "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
  —John Ruskin
• "Learning how to learn is life's most important skill."
  —Tony Buzan

42. Smile

• "Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace."
  —Christie Brinkley
• "Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
  —John Ray
• "Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
  —Connie Stevens

43. Succeed

• "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
  —Og Mandino
• "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
  —Nikos Kazantzakis
• "However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
  —Stephen Hawking

44. Think

• "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
  —Oprah Winfrey
• "When you think positive, good things happen."
  —Matt Kemp
• "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
  —William Blake

45. Trust

• "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
  —William Shakespeare
• "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."
  —Benjamin Spock
• "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
  —Khalil Gibran

46. Understand

• "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
  —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• "Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
  —Neil Armstrong
• "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
  —Albert Einstein

47. Value

• "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
  —Albert Einstein
• "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
  —Warren Buffet
• "The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
  —Soichiro Honda

48. Winner

• "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
  —Zig Ziglar
• "Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."
  —John Madden
• "A winner never stops trying."
  —Tom Landry

49. Wisdom

• "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
  —Socrates
• "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
  —Immanuel Kant
• "Silence is true wisdom's best reply."
  —Euripides

50. Zeal

• "Zeal will do more than knowledge."
  —William Hazlitt
• "Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."
  —Thomas Fuller
• "Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
  —Khalil Gibran