Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 10

Those who become successful are those who have decided to ‘take the bull by the horns
Sunday Adelaja
As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked
Sunday Adelaja
God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task
Sunday Adelaja
There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding
Sunday Adelaja
In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious
Sunday Adelaja
People can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very hard to imitate the way you donate money.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.
Jidenna
We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.
Idowu Koyenikan
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.
Idowu Koyenikan
When someone comes around at that dreary moment, when all hope was lost, and thorns emerged. And that fellow, walks on that thorn just to cross to your side, to bear the pains for your sake, to bleed, to self-destroy himself, just to protect you. He places you above his priorities, and doesn't give a damn whatsoever taunt he receives, his foremost desire is to make sure you are save, feel loved and cared for, and that's the true definition of love.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.
Kemi Sogunle
Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Take a look at the plants. They come together and thrive peacefully in the garden or park. They lean on each other without trying to outdo one another. They serve as a sign that we can see beyond our differences and embrace each other in love while allowing our uniqueness to add color to our world. If plants can live in harmony and show their beauty to the world, we as humans can do much more.
Kemi Sogunle
To demonstrate the nature of one who would enter the kingdom is to use an illustration
Sunday Adelaja
Destination is a primordial intention born in the mind of the creator that promoted him to create a certain object of inanimate nature, animate nature and the highest creature, a human being
Sunday Adelaja
The work that we are doing for God should be of a higher priority than what we do for man
Sunday Adelaja
Living in God’s righteousness and conducting your work according to God’s golden principles will undoubtedly lead any born again Christian to incredible success
Sunday Adelaja
One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.
Ufuoma Apoki
Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Spiritual Requirement Needed To Function Has Been Revealed
Sunday Adelaja
Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it
Sunday Adelaja
Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The government can pass bills, but only the Great Healer can heal a broken soul
Sunday Adelaja
You must not be worried about your belly but worry about your soul
Sunday Adelaja
Lend an ear to your inner voice and intuition
Sunday Adelaja
The sky was overcast with thick, grey clouds drifting in the direction of Idasa. That meant rain. It would come, as long as the clouds drifted in that direction. Lightening flashes momentarily parted the clouds...Shango, the god of lightening and thunder, was registering his anger as this strange talk of a new God is taking hold of simple folk who were once unquestioning votaries of his order. The new malady must be nipped in the bud.
T.M. Aluko
Stop being okay with the norm, seek to transform.
Constance Chuks Friday
Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts
Sunday Adelaja
We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government
Sunday Adelaja
If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Abort the thought, save the baby
Chinonye J. Chidolue
We are diamonds in the roughThrough the thrust and toil, we come out strongWe are the breath of the earth,Our wombs tell of humanity's birthWe are seeds splattered on putrid soilsStill we sprout, through every stormWe are not here to survive,We are here to live...Inward and outwardIn the incandescence of our existenceYes, our voices may sometimes be brokenBut our spirit remains indestructible. We are women, unapologetically!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.
Ikechukwu Izuakor
Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
Kemi Sogunle
It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
It never really ends...Children surviving through the cold winds of neglect, and all kinds of misfortune and vile treatment.We see them everyday, with broken smiles that endure the painful kicking of their malnourished bellies protruded with dreams that may never see the light of conception...But with just a little kind word,A handful of promise,A heart of compassion,A smile full of hope,We would hold hands together in helping them conceive their dreams...Because they are the little bits and pieces that make us whole...
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You bear a significant importance to humanity. You exist to complete the mold. Each step you take, great or little is important to your self-growth and success. Don't be hard on yourself when things don't go right or when the journey seems tough. You have not just one extra year but an entire lifetime to keep trying until you get it right. Please be good to yourself by keeping hope alive always. It's not about the new year. It's about you!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
In bringing dreams into fulfillment, your potential and extraordinary personality must be revealed
Sunday Adelaja
God always raises deliverers from among the people
Sunday Adelaja
By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words
Sunday Adelaja
People who live according to the world’s standard are confused, and therefore get into all kinds of trouble that leads to destruction.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t expect a reward for what you do, from people, rather what matters is how you walk and are valued by God
Sunday Adelaja
Become great in God’s eyes so as to bring freedom to your people
Sunday Adelaja
True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent
Sunday Adelaja
If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth
Sunday Adelaja
To introduce to people a radically difference paradigm for life is to give the best response
Sunday Adelaja
Focusing on you target will enable you to achieve more in your life than any ordinary person can ever do
Sunday Adelaja
In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering
Sunday Adelaja
That person in the mirror is just the outside, your earth suit; the real you resides on the inside
Sunday Adelaja
Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal
Sunday Adelaja
When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Be like Jesus. Live love, speak love, think love…..do all things in love.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
Happiness is ours for the taking and take it we must without any apologies. We deserve to be happy, loved, and respected......nothing less.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.
Omoakhuana Anthonia