Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 136

Learn how to stay out of negativity. It will improve your health. Learn how to focus on meeting your needs. It will increase your wealth. Learn how to develop strength during difficult days. You will learn how to overcome. Learn how to confess your sins and do away with them. It will help you understand God's grace. Learn how to be patient. It will lead you to accomplish your goals and results. Learn how to give. It will open doors to your blessings. Learn how to become fearless. It will bring you peace. Learn how to trust God above all else and your life will never be the same.
Kemi Sogunle
Learn the truth...never assume.Understand the plight...never judge.Put yourself in someone's shoes...never hurt.Think before you act, reason before you react.
Kemi Sogunle
Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically.
Kemi Sogunle
Life’s best lessons are learned during the most painful experiences.
Kemi Sogunle
There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wiser and better. The moment you shift your thinking from "I cannot" to "I must," you will begin to see 'Beyond the Pain' and draw strength from within. Learn to see each obstacle as a stepping stone and watch your life change significantly.
Kemi Sogunle
Every choice starts with a decision. Every decision starts with a thought. Every thought starts with a pre-conceived idea. It is up to you to decide what you do with each but always remember that the choice you make will result in the consequence you face.
Kemi Sogunle
The most important lessons are learned during the process. Pay attention to the process.
Kemi Sogunle
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have nothing but a great head to offer.Is that enough?
Sola Kosoko
Don’t cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface
Ikechukwu Joseph
Your belief is the operating system on which your life runs.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
When you focus on your focus, you will soon become the focus.
Sesan Kareem
The truth of the matter is a matter of knowing and abiding by the truth.
Sesan Kareem
You greatest gift is who you are, not just what you do.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Those who fail to think, will shrink, sink and stink.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.
Ogwo David Emenike
If I were a bird, I will have no feet.
Sola Kosoko
Good intentions aren't enough, you must take right actions.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion.
Ogwo David Emenike
Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.
Ogwo David Emenike
That failure serves a purpose!
Ogwo David Emenike
I acquired courage from the masterpieces of sages. I came of age by their instructions to keep going, even in hard times. Then I learnt not to despair, even when it seemed that my world is falling apart. I learnt to possess fortitude.
Ogwo David Emenike
The slogans “hang on” and “press on” have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity.
Ogwo David Emenike
A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.
Ogwo David Emenike
Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.
Ogwo David Emenike
Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.
Ogwo David Emenike
When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.
Ogwo David Emenike
Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.
Ogwo David Emenike
I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.
Ogwo David Emenike
When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Everyday, God shows us what love and compassion is about, through everything He created. We must learn to see beyond our differences and look deeper into our hearts. Everything in life will shape you, if you allow yourself embrace the truth...no matter how much it hurts. The truth is associated with love and love is all we need.
Kemi Sogunle
Playing is a game. Love is an act. Don't pretend to love someone when all you plan to do is play. Love is not a game. It is a lifetime commitment.
Kemi Sogunle
Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.
Kemi Sogunle
If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.
Kemi Sogunle
Our need for instant gratification is the reason we’re drawn to liars and hot air blowers.
Izey Victoria Odiase
One great concern that plagues very ambitious people is this: in the end, they’ll get all the precious things they ever dreamed of and every precious accomplishment most expected and conceived they’d achieve . . . but on that path of ambition, they’d lose precious moments with the most precious people they’ve come across. However, they forge ahead on that path hoping, somehow, they might make up for it, sometime, in future.
Ufuoma Apoki
3 Types of People You Will Encounter. Those who:1) Promise and Deliver,2) Under-promise and Over-deliver,3) Over-promise and Under-deliver.
Izey Victoria Odiase
When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live
Sunday Adelaja
In case you didn't know... You are her. The one he let get away.
Alfa H
Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was took a while to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle... and that is your loss.
Alfa H
I had never met another who loved my mind more than my body. I could feel his curiosity finger-walk through my thoughts... intentional and hard. Absorbing me. Learning me. And as he leaned in and held my hand close to his, I heard my soul sigh... in a deep grateful breath.
Alfa H
... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box.... and the balls to use it.
Alfa H
I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call." I gotcha girlfriend.
Alfa H
He kissed her good morning like she was the reason sun decided to shine.
Alfa H
They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer fright.
Alfa H
There are days when I want to dip my soul in memories and just soak. Then there are others where I'm praying they'll be washed away.
Alfa H
I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of my needs. I chose wrong... in the past. I thought I had to find someone who could put up with my hunger for life. But I was so damn wrong. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who would admire all the things about me that tepid men were intimidated by.
Alfa H
... I don't know what I feel anymore, or maybe it's that I don't know HOW to feel anymore. I question every move I make, every breath I take, and every flutter of an eyelash. I've developed a twitch from always being on guard. I'm alert at night, and numb during the day, but I'm always ready. Maybe, I can intercept tragedy from striking again.
Alfa H
What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward?
Alfa H
I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.
Alfa H
I didn't have to say a word. My love for him appeared upon my flesh like virgin tattooed skin.
Alfa H
Keep yourself as busy as you can. Try and forget. But even with 7 billion other distractions... you don't forget me.
Alfa H
He loved me, but in a lukewarm way. I needed scalding, but he loved in one temperature; tepid.
Alfa H
Our love is immortal. We have become a love story. I siphoned the moments from my heart and soul, and I have inked them into beautifully bound pages. We live on for another generation to try and understand how the beauty of love can turn into ugly reality.
Alfa H
How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.
Alfa H
I saw a sadness shivering in his eyes that night. They resemble a heart flat-lining. I wanted to ask him what put it there, but he blinked... and it was gone. And I knew that a man who could control pain so exquisitely had no business paying with my heart.
Alfa H
Your memory straddles my mind.
Alfa H