Quotes by Ghanaian Authors - Page 36

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The real value of intellectuals is not just the value of their intellect but the impact. The distinctive footprints they are able to leave on minds with their wit whilst they live and how such footprints give latter days minds something to ponder over long after they are gone!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Good parents have good hearts to accommodate the little things that mean a lot to their children. Good parents have good hands to touch and shape the little things that mean a lot to the life of their children. Good parents have the good ears to listen and hear the little things that mean a lot their children. Good parents have good eyes to not just look, but see the little things that mean a lot to their wards and that which can make them feel being at home and being cared for, even if and when the ward is not aware of such little things !
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.
Israelmore Ayivor
What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermined when they that are responsible for shaping the best in us are always undermined!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn books but life!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn moral principles, but they shall be living examples of moral principles.I stand for a different education: a different education where students don’t just understand what they learn, but practice what they learn with understanding!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn about people of different beliefs, culture and backgrounds, but how to live with people who don’t share common perspective with them and know how to show their emotions of bitterness and misunderstanding rightly!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will be perfect ambassadors’ of God on earth and live their daily lives with all due diligence!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand why we all breathe the same air, sleep and wake up each day in the same manner to continue the journey of life!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will learn with inspiration even in their desperations!I stand for a different education: a different education where teachers are seen as true epitome of education!I stand for a different education: a different education in which the value of the teacher is well understood and the teacher is well valued as a treasure!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn, but they will reproduce great and noble things with what they learn!I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand the real meaning of integrity and responsibility and with true courage and humility be that as such!I stand for a different education: a different education where education means creativity!Education is the spine of every nation! The better the education, the better the nation! The mediocre the education, the mediocre the nation! A good nation is good because of how education has shaped the perspective and understanding of the populace! A nation that does not know where it is heading towards must ask the machine that produces the populace who drive the nation: education! Until we fix our education, we shall always have a wrong education and we shall always see a wrong nation!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The world of books is the only paradise there is.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.
Israelmore Ayivor
Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.
Israelmore Ayivor
In the field of business, you are a hunter. For sure you will not be successful all the time when you go hunting. However, there is the potential that you can have a bumper harvest one day that can turn your life around. It is better to live an unexpected life than to live a life of expectation. Pursue your dream today.
Oscar Bimpong
You cannot influence if you a reserve player. Until you get to the pitch to exhibit the difference you will bring to the team, you cannot influence the team to success.
Oscar Bimpong
To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.
Israelmore Ayivor
To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up.
Israelmore Ayivor
When it is time to sow, sow and when it is time to harvest, you will harvest. Obey this rule.
Israelmore Ayivor
To become a better you, do not see the failure of your first attempts and declare yourself a loser.
Israelmore Ayivor
Millions of successful people on earth were once big time failures who tried few times again.
Israelmore Ayivor
Sow the seeds of hard work and you will reap the fruits of success. Find something to do, do it with all your concentration. You will excel.
Israelmore Ayivor
Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate.
Israelmore Ayivor
Show the world you are not here to just pass through. Leave great footprints wherever you pass and be remembered for the change you initiated.
Israelmore Ayivor
No struggle, no success. The stronger the thunder, the heavier the rainfall
Israelmore Ayivor
Those who lift trophies of success are those who do what they do without stretching their necks to see “who else is doing what?
Israelmore Ayivor
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.
Israelmore Ayivor
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.
Israelmore Ayivor
The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.
Israelmore Ayivor
The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.
Israelmore Ayivor
The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.
Israelmore Ayivor
Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.
Israelmore Ayivor
You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.
Israelmore Ayivor
The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.
Israelmore Ayivor
Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.
Israelmore Ayivor
Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory
Israelmore Ayivor
Every great endeavour is fueled by great enthusiasm.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Winners were not born winners; they learnt and practiced how to win and they have it! Everyone who gives a great testimony about his/her life begins with a beginning that was "inadequate" until something happened... an a breakthrough became evident!
Israelmore Ayivor
Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs.
Israelmore Ayivor
Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.
Israelmore Ayivor
Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper
Israelmore Ayivor
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
Israelmore Ayivor
A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.
Israelmore Ayivor
A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.
Israelmore Ayivor
You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders don’t leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.
Israelmore Ayivor
You can discover your sacred paths by reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Leaders don’t hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share knowledge. They leave part of them with people they meet; hence they are hardly missed when they are gone.
Israelmore Ayivor
If don’t want to be eliminated, you must be innovative. Update your knowledge and you won’t be outmoded.
Israelmore Ayivor
We are the children of the living God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Worry is heavy weight.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Let these words be your guide; money or no money, houses or no houses, cars or no cars, never turn down the divine assignment of God for your life. Become an inspiration to another life through good service and healthy relationship.
Israelmore Ayivor
If we read, we shall renew our minds.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Nobody will buy a half-cooked food!
Israelmore Ayivor
In your anger, zip your lips!
Israelmore Ayivor
Only foolish fishes wish to fly!
Israelmore Ayivor
Change is uncomfortable, but it’s helpful!
Israelmore Ayivor
No knowledge about self is self-slavery!
Israelmore Ayivor
Where love germinates, peace is harvested!
Israelmore Ayivor
When it is late, everyone cares!
Israelmore Ayivor
Know love. Sow love. Grow love!
Israelmore Ayivor
Resentment lies in the heart of fools.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes crisis triggers the genius within
Bernard Kelvin Clive
The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in action works and gets far good results than faith
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
God promised to bless the works of our hands. If you do not work, what is God going to bless you for?
Israelmore Ayivor