Poems List

No one can/will dare to make you a mediocre/an inferior person, until you personally/first accept mediocrity/inferiority complex as your fate. So, never ever think/feel/accept to be a mediocre/an inferior person.

Life can/will sometimes knock you down. It's up to you to either bounce back up or remain where you are knocked down. But, I urge you as ever, don't/never get stuck on where you've fallen. Rather, strive by all means to get back up to your feet. Because, you will hardly make headway until you resolve to get up from your ashes of downfall/failure.

Inspirations/motivations can boost/revive/resuscitate/revitalize a dying/already dead human spirit/morale. So, never hesitate to inspire/motivate all and sundry/the world at large/posterity ahead.

Ingratitude is thinking nothing of what has been done/given to you by someone else i.e. not feeling bound to show gratitude. I mean, ingratitude is a discreditable lack of gratitude. Yes you heard me right, and that is just what it is. So, you've got to show gratitude to others for every bit of their kindness, love, care, gift and stuffs like that which you've already/you will received/­receive from them subsequently. NOTE: Most especially, never hesitate to show more and more gratitude to God almighty who do give you/us all you/­we ever need (the four necessities of life which are shelter, food, clothin­g and water) And as well continually show gratitude to him (God) even for your life itself. Because he is the sole giver and taker of life including yours. Now, listen up, you should show gratitude and you must show gratitude to all and sundry/God. For, until you resolve/learn to show gratitude, you are an ingrate and you will remain an ingrate period.

True love ought to be give and take i.e. true love should be more of mutual concession/compromise. As a matter of fact, any love/relationship which is devoid of concession/compromise won't/can't last long.

Trust an instinct and insight that none can or should equate anyone’s silence with his patience for the true wisdom is that the silence is the strength of someone, but the patience is the power of everyone.

How/Where you/anyone begin in life doesn't really matter. Yes, rather the bottom line is how/where you/he/she will end up. For, surely there is an end to every human/matter. Guess what? The end of every human/matter is better off than the beginning there off (Ecclesiates 7 : 8). Now, that's why, I'm more concerned with what/how my end will be. And you too ought to be more concerned with your end rather than your beginning. Lest you forget. The end justifies the means and I strongly do believe in that in toto.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

Good council has no price.

Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.