Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 24

Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.
Sunday Adelaja
The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious
Ikechukwu Joseph
In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The first and most important thing that God requires of a man is to bear responsibility for future generations
Sunday Adelaja
If you know that God may soon be entrusting you with a particular ministry, then it's important that you look ahead to what may be awaiting you in the future and see how you can prepare yourself for it
Sunday Adelaja
The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
A leader can lose his people if he does not know the problems they are facing.
Sunday Adelaja
Every person has the responsibility over their own territory.
Sunday Adelaja
In nations where to most people, the personal responsibility of a citizen towards the nation does not really mean anything, most citizens of such nations end up playing the blame game
Sunday Adelaja
The level of Personal Responsibility in developed countries is averagely much higher than is seen in developing nations.
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen.
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations.
Sunday Adelaja
So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility leads to collective responsibility.
Sunday Adelaja
While we thank God for them and their efforts, we must also know that our generation of believers has the responsibility to take the gospel a bit further. To conquer some more territories and to expand the influence of the kingdom to a higher horizon
Sunday Adelaja
While we thank God for them and their efforts, we must also know that our generation of believers have the responsibility to take the gospel a bit further
Sunday Adelaja
We laugh and jest at what we call “street boys or area boys” instead of thinking of what we could do, to get them occupied or send them to school and create work opportunities for them. We rather choose to build walls around our compounds, electrocuted fences to protect out interest and personal comfort. That only shows lack of Personal Responsibility.
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is the acknowledgement of the fact that I am personally responsible for what is happening in my life, in my surrounding and in my nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is when an individual volunteers to be in charge of duties, tasks and is ready to see to its fulfilment
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to educate people on the issues of Personal Responsibility. If a nation or rather active citizens of a nation could successfully launch such campaigns and a good percentage of the populace begin to live by the principles of Personal Responsibility, which is “don’t blame others”, think of what you can do to fix it. Such a nation would cross the huddle of civilization in a record time.
Sunday Adelaja
God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation
Sunday Adelaja
It is the responsibility of each new generation to restore the authority of God in every sphere of life
Sunday Adelaja
Together with the call comes responsibility
Sunday Adelaja
Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?
Buchi Emecheta
She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.
Buchi Emecheta
Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it’ll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone knows it’s there. Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going wrong only makes matters worse. It’s like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, 'The only reason it won’t heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.' How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly.
Luvvie Ajayi
There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say “racist”; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem, but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse.
Teju Cole
But why do we say nothing?" Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. "Why do we always say nothing?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters. They are people with loving families, regular folk who pay taxes. Somebody needs to get the job of deciding who is racist and who isn't. Or maybe it's time to just scrap the word 'racist.' Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Youths are the life blood of any nation.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live
Fela Durotoye
Democracy, religion, education and terrorism have all become practicable norms all over the world – thanks to globalization
Tony Osborg
I am the unseen. For centuries I have been here, beneath this great city, this metropolis. I know your language. I know all languages. . . . My cave is broad and cool. The sun cannot send its heat down here. The damp soil is rich and fragrant. I turn softly on my back and place my eight legs to the cave ceiling. Then, I listen. I am the spider. I see sound. I feel taste. I hear touch. I spin this story. This is the story I’ve spun.
Nnedi Okorafor
A story that must be told never forgives silence.
Okey Ndibe
The heart of man is vulnerable to negativity, but it could be easily fortified with positivity
Michael Bassey Johnson
She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it's over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses its elasticity and becomes plastic, and later cuts or breaks.As a leader, in your leadership disposition, it behoves of you to acquaint yourself with this very leadership principle that edges forward. It's however, a human nature to adopt to an environment, so, leaders are humans, they tend to have this rapore with their followers which is somewhat a must needed. But the ability for such one to return and recollect to knowing his boundary makes a good leader. A phenomenon whereby he becomes drunk of platitudes, then it comes to a time where they (followers) dictate for him. And even sought and suggest plans without his consent or knowing, it has gotten to the point of plastic and break respectively.
Richmond Akhigbe
A lot of things in nature answers to increase which is a law of nature
Sunday Adelaja
It doesn’t matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences.
Sunday Adelaja
To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God
Sunday Adelaja
He that discovers and defines law is law abiding
Sunday Adelaja
If you are uncomfortable with any law or procedure, propose a motion for its amendment. Until it is amended, going against it for whatever purpose automatically makes one a rebel
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
It is the church that must proclaim the law out of Zion
Sunday Adelaja
To violate kingdom law is to bring negative consequences
Sunday Adelaja
It is costly when not abiding by God’s law
Sunday Adelaja
The More Citizens Conform To The Law Of Love. The Less Governing Would Be Required
Sunday Adelaja
To Partake In The Consequence of A Law Is To Violate It
Sunday Adelaja
The best is to prioritize kingdom laws and principles
Sunday Adelaja
To expose kingdom law violators is to understand kingdom law
Sunday Adelaja
Every law requires a response
Sunday Adelaja
The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that each worker no matter the level, knows he is participating in the process of creation with God hence the dignity.
Sunday Adelaja
To be clear to the scriptures is to be clear to the original plan of creation
Sunday Adelaja