35 Quotes by Nesta Jojoe Erskine

You don’t get lucky while sitting in the sofa with arms crossed doing nothing. You can be lucky only when you are prepared.

I win every time I wake up from sleep because having life is a win. You can only win when you are alive. Being alive is an opportunity to try again to win.

The world is a noisy place. Everybody wants to say something. We are forever surrounded by people’s opinions on how to make things work. Everyone wants to give us a piece of themselves through speeches and actions. Everything around us wants our attention. It never stops. Sometimes we get lost in the maze of all the noise we are surrounded by. We forget one thing: Silence! You can only learn when you are silent.

You are not responsible for how people feel or react when you say no to them. You are only responsible for your word; your “no” or your “yes.

One thing about “yes” and “no” is that you can’t say one and leave the other. When you say “no”, it means “yes” to something else.

The master takes his good enough work to excellence by considering every detail and straightening all that is crooked. Excellence happens when every detail is taken care of.

Up until now, I still think of that boy. I still hear the words of his dad echoing in my head as I write this, and now, I’m asking myself, “Why did I fail to follow the path the parent was directing his ward?” The answer makes me very ashamed: “I didn’t know the advice could as well be applicable to me.

So today, learn to live consciously. Listen to the rhythm of your heartbeat and how the air feels on your skin and watch life as it happens around you. Worries go away when you live in the NOW.

Yours might not be a quest for heroism. Yours might be to win a personal victory over a habit. Yours might be a personal battle to gain freedom from fears. A simple win is right