Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 3

It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.
Helen Oyeyemi
the only weapon you have got to conquer fear,it is will not to fail
Olugbenga michael adepoju
At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.
Idowu Koyenikan
The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Taking decision and acting out our decisions leads to increase
Sunday Adelaja
It is not other people who make them to smoke, it is mostly a voluntary decision.
Sunday Adelaja
It is batter to make everyday decision based on what the Lord thinks and what the Word says
Sunday Adelaja
To Be Part Of The Restoration Is A Decision
Sunday Adelaja
Everything that we have in actual fact does not belong to us, but to God.
Sunday Adelaja
As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.
Sunday Adelaja
My concern is not the fact that other people don’t understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing
Sunday Adelaja
As a matter of fact, confrontation could be a seed of peace.
Sunday Adelaja
For everything you embrace, there is a consequence
Sunday Adelaja
What you reject cannot be effective for you
Sunday Adelaja
What you know is what you share
Sunday Adelaja
We are entrusting thousands of strangers with our innermost thoughts and feelings, and then we're expecting them to be careful with those feelings. As much as we want it to be, the Internet is not a safe space. It is not a place where we can lay our burdens down and heal. Why? Because there are too many people there who do not give an ounce of a shit about our well-being. They do not deserve our rawness, and they will not treat it with care.
Luvvie Ajayi
There is worth everywhere and in everything we see.
Sunday Adelaja
Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness
Sunday Adelaja
Women have a role to play in global development.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The first stage of any development is infancy.
Sunday Adelaja
Any person or nation can successfully duplicate any achievement that a person or nation succeeded in attaining. I am sure that Africa and other economically backward countries, that are sometimes referred to as third world countries, can attain a very high rate of development much faster than the time it took Europe and other first world countries.
Sunday Adelaja
Everything God created was created in a seed form, small and miniature.
Sunday Adelaja
God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full
Sunday Adelaja
God is the guarantee of our security.
Sunday Adelaja
…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity.” - Dami K.
Ray Anyasi
Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver
Emmanuel Olawale
DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.
Sunday Adelaja
One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.
Sunday Adelaja
The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.
Sunday Adelaja
the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his own rear from the elements, he must not denude his opponents.
Wole Soyinka
LADIES!!!! You are not a SEXUAL OBJECT! - not a PUNCHING BAG _ not a target for EMOTIONAL ABUSE! You worth more than that! You were created by God to be a Partner to MEN not a SLAVE, to provide Strength and support to them not to be used and manipulated by them, to submit to them not to become fools in that process. You have your Dignity and Self Worth. Never sacrifice those!
bolanle john
Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Facts are always required to draw conclusions and make serious decisions.
Sunday Adelaja
Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions
Sunday Adelaja
Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn't get tired, and we musn't get tired too.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Everything is good when it is on time.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to learn to protect our time.
Sunday Adelaja
We do not have any other time other than today.
Sunday Adelaja
Effective time management is instrumental for economic reformation.
Sunday Adelaja
Work on Purpose - Play on Purpose -Rest on Purpose -Do not let yourself or anyone else waste your time.
Izey Victoria Odiase
It is only the wife, and not just any woman, who constitutes the noble soil that produces excellent fruits
Sunday Adelaja
God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.
Sunday Adelaja
Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules.
Sunday Adelaja
You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships.
Sunday Adelaja
When a nation is under oppression for too long, it gets used to it and begins to agree with that oppression
Sunday Adelaja
When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.
Sunday Adelaja
You have the power inside of You. Do not be scared to wield it, for the battles You face give no allowances for your cute little sense of innocence and ignorance. They will overrun and vanquish You at the slightest chance they get. So, fight You must to stay up or be prepared to go down.Remember this though: With great power comes great responsibility and true power is wielded efficiently in time and with wisdom.
Ufuoma Apoki
Before you take up that fight against history, do remember that she has a track record of beating 'champions' like you. Therefore, it's best to stick with the flow, and go with what works for everyone. But . . . In the event you do decide to go against the convention, all you need is to get your heart straight, and your eyes fixed on the target. You might just be the underdog that will surprise history.
Ufuoma Apoki
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable.
Sunday Adelaja
Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people.
Sunday Adelaja
Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek
Azuka Onwuka
Strong nations are built on SOLID HOMES not big houses
Fela Durotoye
Every family has a destiny to fulfill....Every child is the future of his or her family and nation at large....Every father is a hero to his son (child).....Fathers are you truly heroes to your children....check your thoughts, actions and motives.....are you really living up to your children' s expectations ?
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Leadership is a SERVING relationship with OTHERS that inspires THEIR growth and makes the world a better place
Fela Durotoye
There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!
Fela Durotoye
Your ability to consummate Leadership or follower-ship brings fulfillment at each appointed time in life
Ikechukwu Joseph