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1191 Lawyer Quotes

“Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.”

Possibilities Decisions Happen Hope
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“I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.”

Moral Expectations Need Compass
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“Changing the big picture takes time… and the best thing to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives. If we’re doing all that – that becomes the collage of real change.”

Changing Picture Best Focus
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“We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.”

Need Putting Ourselves Higher
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“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”

Decisions Based Possibility Make
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“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.”

Extraordinary Taught About Strength
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“If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.”

Performance Test Here Guarantee
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There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get.

Spend Define Result Choice
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Actions must have consequences.

Must Action Consequence Action
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The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

Raise About Brother Even
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As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

Price Never Fixed Cheque
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The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

Economy Debt Evil Review
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We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

Borrow Build Debt Plant
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For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

Rob Citizen That Every
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

Abuse Plus Process Power
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My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

Under Urgency Policed Police
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Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.

Fund State Start Every
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Our Work in Lagos was a Team Effort, I won’t appropriate personal responsibility for the Good Work

Good Team Work Effort
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My attitude was to see criminals as my competitor and with competitions ,my desire was to win.

Win Desire Criminal Attitude
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Before we increase taxes, we must optimize the capacity to get that which is in the place.

Increase Place Capacity Before
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Competition stimulates productivity. There is no state that is unable to carry out productive activity.

Activity Unable State Stimulate
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I will walk away from the tendency to condemn the level of development of our Country.

Walk Condemn Level Away
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It is our responsibility to continue to add value whenever we find ourselves in a privileged position.

Position Value Continue Find
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The only training I have is that of a lawyer. I don’t fix contract prices, I don’t sign cheques, non of my commissioners signs cheques. We have a process that was followed.

Process Sign Lawyer Fix
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. In public life I have remained loyal to causes that I have signed on to. Nobody can fairly accuse me of giving my word and going back on my word. I always pray that my loyalty will not be tested.

Concept Strange Remain Loyalty
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Our infrastructure is behind, and if we don't invest money in infrastructure, we can't move forward. We can't borrow to pay salaries or fuel generators, we must borrow to pay for our Infrastructures.

Behind Invest Infrastructure Move
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Everything Garden Library You
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Gratitude Greatest Only Others
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Always Before Born Child
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cause Most Orator Vehement
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Contend Enemy Folly Gates
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Body Cultivation Food Mind
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More law, less justice.
Justice Law Less More
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Highest Law People Safety
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Also Courage Faith Full
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Liberty Peace Tranquillity
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Follow Glory Shadow Virtue
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The sinews of war are infinite money.

Infinite Money Sinews War
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Adverse Blows Brave Fortune
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Children Gifts His Human
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Consists Decency Doing Giving
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Aspiring Even Highest Honorable
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Creation Criticize Fault Finding
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Harder Him Inferiority Man
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True nobility is exempt from fear.

Exempt Fear Nobility True
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Again Beings Come Creator
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Dead Life Living Memory
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