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Post graduate in Marketing & Business Management, and with over 20 years of diversified experience with renowned multinationals. IMC is a vision that evolved from her knowledge of how individuals play a key role in business successes.

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Words that Inspire

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott

You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.
Irish Proverb

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Anonymous

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
William Feather

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Longfellow

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Anonymous

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Franklin

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Diana Ross

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter

Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown

Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish.
Catherine Pulsifer

Great minds have purposes, others have dreams.
Washington Irving

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
John R. Amos

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
- John Shedd

"The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God."
- Max Lucado

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
- Stephen Levine
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Thomas Carlyle

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza

The mind is like a clear mirror.
At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect.
Huineng

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse

To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Tao Te Ching

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
Vincent van Gogh

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Jimmy Carter

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the Heart.
Helen Keller

We must find our own particular way of loving the world and put our energy into it. Decide your way of loving and you will be rewarded.
Bernie Siegel

Good friends and excellent teachers - Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages.
Ryokan

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen R. Covey

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
Yiddish Proverb

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. 'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.' Other people, though, go on to acheive
their greatest accomplishments in life in later years.
Catherine Pulsifer

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff

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