Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 45

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.
Sunday Adelaja
Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
Michael Bassey Johnson
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.
Michael Bassey Johnson
99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.
Idowu Koyenikan
The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery.
Sunday Adelaja
A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.
Sunday Adelaja
If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We are well,' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.''It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.
Flora Nwapa
Poverty must be erased by hard work.
Sunday Adelaja
The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning.
Sunday Adelaja
God desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position.
Sunday Adelaja
The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.
Sunday Adelaja
We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.
Sunday Adelaja
People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences.
Sunday Adelaja
When I look at the Church today, not just in Africa but worldwide, it seems to me that we have come to love darkness even if we are called Church or some other religious names.
Sunday Adelaja
Darkness, that is, ignorance, limits our visibility.
Sunday Adelaja
Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society
Sunday Adelaja
A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.
Chinua Achebe
The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation
Sunday Adelaja
The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God
Sunday Adelaja
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.
Okey Ndibe
Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you.
Kemi Sogunle
The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come.
Kemi Sogunle
At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.
Kemi Sogunle
We must heal this terminally ill world with love.
Sunday Adelaja
Truth and Honesty: this principle could bring about healing and harmony in any nation.
Sunday Adelaja
This girl had been looking on with her hair hanging over her face, only partly hiding a cruel-looking scar; her eyes shone with hatred. Not necessarily hatred of your father or of puppets or the other children, but a hatred of make-believe, which did not heal, but was only useful to the people who didn't need it.
Helen Oyeyemi
If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.
Kemi Sogunle
Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
Michael Bassey Johnson
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In the end, only you can care about you.
Justice Mark Tsaro Igbara
We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Perfection is a faux. It’s a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn’t us.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
Everyone has a price”, as they say. So let the price on your tag say “PRICELESS” “INVALUABLE” “IRREPLACEABLE”.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
Never let your desire for love override your sense of self and value.
Izey Victoria Odiase
I am worthy of touch without bartering my self worth.
Alfa H
There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.
Nnedi Okarafor
Love yourself. That kind of love can get you through anything.
Alfa H
Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.
Michael Bassey Johnson
My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.
Michael Bassey Johnson