Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 4

For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.
Sunday Adelaja
To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness
Sunday Adelaja
I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message
Sunday Adelaja
No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process
Fela Durotoye
Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.
Sunday Adelaja
Discover your gift if you don’t want to live the life of an ordinary person
Sunday Adelaja
Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
Sunday Adelaja
Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.
Idowu Koyenikan
Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise
Sunday Adelaja
Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other.
Izey Victoria Odiase
Liking me is optional. . .Respecting me is not!
Izey Victoria Odiase
One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is thelarge scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts
Oche Otorkpa
More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis.
Sunday Adelaja
The domain of God is primarily heaven. That is where he has limited himself to.
Sunday Adelaja
This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing
Sunday Adelaja
He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
Sunday Adelaja
Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.
Ogwo David Emenike
Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis
Sunday Adelaja
A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence
Sunday Adelaja
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
Idowu Koyenikan
The happiest people on earth are not those who have robust bank accounts, or all the good things in this world; but, they are those who truly embrace the attitude of gratitude. Some of these folks are poor, but are still very grateful for the little they have; for the peace of mind they enjoy, for the love in their lives, for the unity in their family and for all the ordinary things many people take for granted. They always focused, not on the things they are aspiring for, but for all the things God has used to bless their lives.
Sesan Kareem
Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and your big dreams are just too heavy for them to bear, so they will try to break you into pieces. Extinguishers of dreams are everywhere, and you can decode them by their nosy attitude towards your affairs. That is why its pertinent to keep few friends, talk less about yourself, and focus on other things pretending as if you don't exist. It doesn't make you faded or out of life, but the chances of getting your prospects destroyed will be very slim.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Purpose Erases Deep Hurts
Sunday Adelaja
Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.
Sunday Adelaja
To flee from sin is to retain heaven on earth
Sunday Adelaja
Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want only their bodies; such are tagged, 'fake men', and there are others who wants neither the woman, nor the body; such are tagged, 'GAY MEN
Michael Bassey Johnson
Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.
Idowu Koyenikan
Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.
Sunday Adelaja
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
Sunday Adelaja
It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake.
Sunday Adelaja
Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.
Tai Solarin
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.
Sunday Adelaja
Haman is a symbol of a typical ungodly government representative
Sunday Adelaja
You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing to be authentic. Learn to be a man or woman of substance!
Kemi Sogunle
Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The devil is a bad devil.
Pedro Okoro
If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe
Sunday Adelaja
To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws
Sunday Adelaja