Msizilious

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Favourite quotes

Nelson Mandela once said “A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed” Do we still have good leader in South Africa?

“We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity”
Oliver Tambo

"When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out"
Napoleon Bonaparte

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander”

Aristotle

We need these kinds of leaders to make our society good and liveable, but we as citizens also needs to take the stand we cannot always blame others for our own ill's. We need to start doing things for ourselves and not sit around and wait for the government to do something.

Of all the forms of courage the ability to laugh is the most

Of all the forms of courage the ability to laugh is the most powerful and important tool. Laughing is one of the best things in the world; let’s look at it in my point of view, if we always look into a situation and laugh it does not matter whether it’s good or bad. But if we did that then no one would go through depression, we will all be happy, wouldn’t we? ”

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it” Bill Cosby

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed” Khalil Gibran

In life there are those people that just don’t want to see others happy, they thrive or feed onto others sadness, laughing is the best tool to get back at them. “All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

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