Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 40

When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability.
Sunday Adelaja
It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Many people would fight against the idea that they are corrupt. While in the real sense, they are corrupt because they don’t live by the principles of honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, there must be numerous movements championing the cause for truth and honesty in every aspect of our daily affairs.
Sunday Adelaja
When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians.
Sunday Adelaja
Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!
Izey Victoria Odiase
Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.
Ogwo David Emenike
Seek and achieve "GREATNESS" instead of mere success
Fela Durotoye
Success is the understanding, release and maximization of capacity.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Place Yourself On the Scale You Desire.Don't Expect Others To Do It For You. It's An Individual Thing Called SELF-ESTEEM.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Where You Hail From Isn't As Important As Who You Are and What You Do...Your Doings Define and Describe You.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
God Is Love But For This Love To Be Real To Us Depends Largely On Our Responses and Reactions to Him.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Between goal and success, there is one critical thing - perseverance: it is the fundamental belief to always succeed, the determination to turn goal to gold, the greatness to never give up, the foresight to dream that enables you to make it happen.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only difference between you and the star is that you shine below, and the other shines above: Wherever you are located, You are a star!
Michael Bassey Johnson
Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.
Sunday Adelaja
To do what you want is not a privilege. It is a curse. It is the curse of ordinary men. Men with no responsibilities do whatever they want. Common men with no value and self worth do whatever they want. Men whose lives have no worthy purpose are free to do whatever they want. Not you. You are a prince for whom a heavy crown and a powerful throne await. You do not do whatever you want; you do what must be done."- King Chuka
Ray Anyasi
True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It's about why and how you serve the number of people you serve.
Damilola Oluwatoyinbo
If the churches, mosques and other religious centres could come together to embrace a nation’s value system, and then set out to disciple the nation in these values and virtues, then the greatness of such a nation is inevitable.
Sunday Adelaja
An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values
Sunday Adelaja
God connects us with those who inspire us and connect us to those whom we can inspire to greatness
Sunday Adelaja
Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A Mother Has the Best of all Smiles; She is a Wonderful Friend, Lover & Adviser.
Agu
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals
Ikechukwu Izuakor
Fill your life with love and you will be healthy, young, beautiful and full of energy and strength.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to be patient to wait for the beautiful beginning of a new day
Sunday Adelaja
Even God does not call every human a man. There are some who have not managed to attain the height of those who God refers to as men. They might be giving birth, eating and drinking, having fun, but yet, when they don’t live for what they were created for, they remain biomasses.
Sunday Adelaja
The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited.
Sunday Adelaja
Human resources could be purchased and sold but not time.
Sunday Adelaja
Humans could be termed as biomasses when they don’t fully put into use their human qualifications.
Sunday Adelaja
A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human
Sunday Adelaja
Negative emotions impact the human psyche
Sunday Adelaja
The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential
Sunday Adelaja
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality
Sunday Adelaja
...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.
Michael Bassey Johnson
People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.
Sunday Adelaja
Our thinking makes our life.
Sunday Adelaja
God’s way of thinking should become our way of thinking
Sunday Adelaja
You must wakeup in the morning thinking of things you could change in and about your life on a daily basis.
Sunday Adelaja
We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking
Sunday Adelaja
People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase
Sunday Adelaja
Our thinking makes or breaks our life, we live as we think
Sunday Adelaja
A life of constant victory is the result of correct thinking
Sunday Adelaja
A victorious life is as a result of a correct way of thinking
Sunday Adelaja
You are shaped by Your thinking. The outcome of your life cannot be better than your pattern of thought
Benjamin Suulola