ASCENDING YOUR THRONE
People are first dreamers before they become achievers (Ayo Adebamowo)
“More people fail through lack of purpose than through lack of talent” (W.A. Sunny).
It Begins With a Dream
Dear friend, I know you long to succeed in life and to succeed the more hence your reading this book. Now the first thing I would have you understand in the school of success is that every success begins with a dream. If you will succeed in life you must have a dream. This is because every notable achievement begins with a dream. People are first dreamers before they become achievers. Virtually all the men and women who have made the greatest impact in all ages have been dreamers.
Williams Harry Gates II popularly known as Bill Gates is a passionate dreamer. In 1974, he had a dream to place computer on every desk in every home. Today, virtually all the millions of personal computers found in the world run on one software or the other from his Microsoft Corporation. This has in turn earned for him the biggest personal fortune in history amounting to over US $70bn making him the world’s richest man till date. Yet, at the time he first conceived his dream he was merely a 19 year-old college dropout.
Dr. David Oyedepo, founding Bishop of the living Faith Church a.k.a. Winners Chapel had a dream borne of God in April 1982 to build a world–class tabernacle that would be able to sit tens of thousand of worshipers at a time. 17 years later in September 1999, the world’s largest church auditorium named “Faith Tabernacle” was built and dedicated by his church in Nigeria.
The Wright Brother (Ogilvy and Wilbur) conceived a dream of building a vehicle that would be able to fly in the sky at a time certain outstanding scientists and engineers from all over the world had already concluded at a conference held in England that it would be impossible for man to develop an aircraft capable of flying. But at the dawn of the 20th century in 1903, the Wright brothers not only succeeded in developing the first aircraft, they also went ahead to fly it.
Dear friend, dreams are tremendously powerful. Every man will ascend his throne of glory and honour through his dream. A man’s potential for greatness in life is not in his circumstances but right within him: in his dream. Dare to have a dream and hold on tenaciously to your dream for your future is in your dream. To a large extent your dream determines what you become in life. The greatness of men is determined by the size of their dreams.
It is dreams that turn ordinary people into outstanding people. It is dreams that lift men above their contemporaries. It is dream that keeps a man going when all odds seem down against him. The great inventions, the profound breakthroughs and outstanding exploits in the world all began as a dream in the heart of an individual. Through dreams, purposes are birthed, discovered and established. Dreams help us see beyond our immediate circumstances. They inspire in us a hope for living. Dreams enhance foresight, which connotes ability to see ahead. Now it is important we see ahead for according to a Spanish proverb; “Those who don’t see ahead always remain behind”, and in the immortal words of Pascal; “To foresee is to rule”.
Friday 11 September 2009
Press On!
PRESS ON!
In the pursuit of whatever course that is set before us, the following quotations are desinged to provide additional motivation for us:
1. Adventure means additional venture-and that is what the world is designed for-David Abioye
2. The world is like a dancing masquerade, if you want to see it well, you must not stay in one place-Olu Odeyemi
3. I find that the constant inspiration gained by looking at the goal is the chief thing that helps me to persevere-Douglas Thornton
4. 90% of all failure results from quitting too soon. All great achievements require time and tenacity-John L. Mason
5. Most people of great potential stop because they don’t build on their victories
6. Energy and persistence conquer all things-Ben Franklin
7. Excuses always replace progress-Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. It is not because things are difficult that we don’t dare, it is because we don’t dare that things are difficult-Seneca
9. A person is most likely to quit at two distinct times: after a mistake or after a victory-John Mason
10. You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. Pursuit is the evidence of desire-Mike Murdock
11. What you are not ready to be committed to, don’t waste your life pursuing it-David Oyedepo
12. Success is not a destination but an adventure-Ayo Adebamowo
13. If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl: but by all means keep moving-Martin Luther King (Jnr)
14. What lies us and what lies before us are nothing compared to what lies within us. Fan it into flames-Oswald Sander
15. Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and some men crooked-Larry Lea
16. Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will be able to see farther-Zig Ziglar
17. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome-Zig Ziglar
18. Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite-Robert Half
19. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits-Thomas Edison
20. Man should attempt everything and not be dismayed by anything-Niccolo Machialleli
21. Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment-Zig Ziglar
22. There is no height, no depth that the spirit of man cannot attain. They conquer who believe they can-John Hunt
23. Unswevering loyalty to an aim in life will get any man farther toward success than riches for most men who have inherited them
24. Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others
25. The greatest thing in this world is not so much as where we are but in what direction we are moving-Oliver Wendell Holmes
26. Man do less than they ought, unless they do all they can-Thomas Carlyle
27. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talents will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talents. Genius will no; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent-Calvin Coolidge
28. The great end of life is not knowledge but action-Thomas Henry Huxleny
29. The goal wont be reached if the right distance be not travelled-Tibetan Proverb
30. He who is often shooting hits the mark at last-German Proverb
31. The longer I live, the more convinced I become that life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we respond to it-
32. Greatness is never achieved by never failing but rising every time we fail-Confucius
33. Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. But where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses-Sorneo Proverb
34. He that can have patience can have what he will-Ben Franklin
35. The probability that we may fail in a struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just-Abraham Lincoln
In the pursuit of whatever course that is set before us, the following quotations are desinged to provide additional motivation for us:
1. Adventure means additional venture-and that is what the world is designed for-David Abioye
2. The world is like a dancing masquerade, if you want to see it well, you must not stay in one place-Olu Odeyemi
3. I find that the constant inspiration gained by looking at the goal is the chief thing that helps me to persevere-Douglas Thornton
4. 90% of all failure results from quitting too soon. All great achievements require time and tenacity-John L. Mason
5. Most people of great potential stop because they don’t build on their victories
6. Energy and persistence conquer all things-Ben Franklin
7. Excuses always replace progress-Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. It is not because things are difficult that we don’t dare, it is because we don’t dare that things are difficult-Seneca
9. A person is most likely to quit at two distinct times: after a mistake or after a victory-John Mason
10. You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. Pursuit is the evidence of desire-Mike Murdock
11. What you are not ready to be committed to, don’t waste your life pursuing it-David Oyedepo
12. Success is not a destination but an adventure-Ayo Adebamowo
13. If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl: but by all means keep moving-Martin Luther King (Jnr)
14. What lies us and what lies before us are nothing compared to what lies within us. Fan it into flames-Oswald Sander
15. Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and some men crooked-Larry Lea
16. Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will be able to see farther-Zig Ziglar
17. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome-Zig Ziglar
18. Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite-Robert Half
19. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits-Thomas Edison
20. Man should attempt everything and not be dismayed by anything-Niccolo Machialleli
21. Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment-Zig Ziglar
22. There is no height, no depth that the spirit of man cannot attain. They conquer who believe they can-John Hunt
23. Unswevering loyalty to an aim in life will get any man farther toward success than riches for most men who have inherited them
24. Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others
25. The greatest thing in this world is not so much as where we are but in what direction we are moving-Oliver Wendell Holmes
26. Man do less than they ought, unless they do all they can-Thomas Carlyle
27. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talents will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talents. Genius will no; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent-Calvin Coolidge
28. The great end of life is not knowledge but action-Thomas Henry Huxleny
29. The goal wont be reached if the right distance be not travelled-Tibetan Proverb
30. He who is often shooting hits the mark at last-German Proverb
31. The longer I live, the more convinced I become that life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we respond to it-
32. Greatness is never achieved by never failing but rising every time we fail-Confucius
33. Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. But where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses-Sorneo Proverb
34. He that can have patience can have what he will-Ben Franklin
35. The probability that we may fail in a struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just-Abraham Lincoln
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