Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 46

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile
Jude Idada
In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either give our lives meaning, or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change or lives.
Ben Okri
The shortest and the hardest journey to make is the inner one.
Omisona Fasina
Stop doing what everybody is saying and invest in personal growth.
Sunday Adelaja
Look for principles and virtues that will help you grow bigger from inside.
Sunday Adelaja
Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning
Marvin Amazon
One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.
Darmie O-Lujon
Everyday is a mystery
Michael Bassey Johnson
Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God’s character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.
Enuma Okoro
When you don’t crave increase, you become a mystery
Sunday Adelaja
When you live by the demands and supply of life, Life stops being a mystery to you
Sunday Adelaja
To understand the new birth is to have a revelation of its mystery
Sunday Adelaja
Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God’s desire is to reveal Himself to everyone, yet He will manifest Himself only to those who love Him.
Sunday Adelaja
You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work.
Sunday Adelaja
Increase is a natural desire
Sunday Adelaja
Your desire for increase is a sign that we are alive
Sunday Adelaja
Increase must become your natural desire
Sunday Adelaja
God desires to use every believer to spread his kingdom everywhere in a grand manner.
Sunday Adelaja
If you are a believer you are not supposed to begin to convince God to use you. God already desires to use you.
Sunday Adelaja
God so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow.
Sunday Adelaja
God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.
Sunday Adelaja
God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability.
Sunday Adelaja
God desires to use you to the best of your to the best of your potentials.
Sunday Adelaja
The water of such a nation (living godly) will not fail. Talking of harmony between the people of the land and nature. Natural catastrophes and disasters shall be far from such a people. There shall be rain in its time, sun in its time. Nature will respond adequately to the needs and desires of such a people.
Sunday Adelaja
Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation.
Sunday Adelaja
Why are we so unconcerned with the great desire of God’s heart?
Sunday Adelaja
God desires to teach us how to submit to others and how to take the second place
Sunday Adelaja
God’s desire is that Christians would not just be believers in word but He wants everyone who looks at us to see him in us
Sunday Adelaja
God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil
Sunday Adelaja
The desire of God is an expression of his need
Sunday Adelaja
To fulfil the insatiable desire of God is to fit in into his need
Sunday Adelaja
For your heart to be filled with God’s love is to forgive easily
Sunday Adelaja
To be a part of the kingdom you need to desire it enough to search it out
Sunday Adelaja
Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours.
Ogwo David Emenike
Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better.
Ogwo David Emenike
Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.
Ogwo David Emenike
Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.
Festus adeoye
These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.
Michael Bassey Johnson
She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not keep thinking of all the retorts she could have made instead of just standing mutely in that kitchen. But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo's expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest evil does its work and needs no interrogation, their invectives are just a waste of time, and the world is the most sweetest to those with a functional taste buds.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you you see no positive change take care of a negative change.
Oscar AULIQ-ICE Jr
If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure.
Sunday Adelaja
The reason why a person does not have success can be found inside him. It is his worldview, conscience, and perception of life
Sunday Adelaja
It is better to admit your failure than to live in self deception.
Sunday Adelaja
A lack of planning leads to failure.
Sunday Adelaja
God didn’t call you to be a failure. He called you to be a success
Sunday Adelaja
Lack of commitment — is the main reason for failure among Christian leaders
Sunday Adelaja
Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon.
Sunday Adelaja
Success belong to the man who refuses to fair failure.
Sunday Adelaja
Failure is only a step towards success.
Sunday Adelaja