Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 47

There is no failure in life, there are only those who don`t know how to succeed.
Sunday Adelaja
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
Sunday Adelaja
So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.
Ogwo David Emenike
The failure of the church is a result of not equipping believers with mindset to extend God’s kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof.
Ogwo David Emenike
As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.
Ogwo David Emenike
If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It will end in praise, if you are not singing praises, it hasn't ended.
Flo Falayi
Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A person who knows spiritual principles will walk confidently in God’s path, to fulfil what God has already planned to do
Sunday Adelaja
Quality brings security and confidence
Sunday Adelaja
To be a mirror of God’s love is to show Jesus by one’s way of living
Sunday Adelaja
Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price
Michael Bassey Johnson
Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
We don’t have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency
Sunday Adelaja
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
Ben Okri
You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.
Kemi Sogunle
Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life
Sunday Adelaja
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, ChokeAs much as i still keep my past pictures to testify that Jesus reigns and change lives to help others in that situation to see that there is nothing good in this world. I also do it for me. i grow and learn each day.WHICH IS EASIER? TO HIDE IN CHURCH, LOOK LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE THERE AND FORGET I EVER LIVED A DIRTY LIFE OR WHAT I DO NOW?God bless us all.Shalom
Mary Tornyenyor
The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with an outsize intensity. These were the things that had been solidified in my mind by reiteration, that recurred in dreams and daily thoughts: certain faces, certain conversations, which, taken as a group, represented a secure version of the past that I had been constructing since 1992. But there was another, irruptive, sense of things past. The sudden reencounter in the present, of something or someone long forgotten, some part of myself I had relegated to childhood and to Africa.
Teju Cole
The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I will bless thee -His Beatitude is Your Beautification
Ikechukwu Joseph
Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our youngmen and women on how best to self destruct, while the largercommunity watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades leadour people towards the path of self annihilation
Oche Otorkpa
To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You are the most priced before God.Acknowledge this
Ikechukwu Joseph
The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.
Ufuoma Apoki
If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else
Sunday Adelaja
Do not depreciate a creation of God
Sunday Adelaja
The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none
Sunday Adelaja
I will, without hesitation, walk away from anything and anyone that threatens my peace or sense of self.
Izey Victoria Odiase
Divine presence gives meaning to what seems to have no meaning
Sunday Adelaja
With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face
Sunday Adelaja
We are chosen by God, it was not by coincidence. We have been accorded the dignity of kingship and we are called to take the Kingdom to the world. The destiny of millions of people depends on us.
Sunday Adelaja
Our calling is to exalt the name of the Lord above every other name. God has translated us into His Kingdom and revealed to us the way to greatness so that we can glorify Him.
Sunday Adelaja
Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life.
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high
Sunday Adelaja
Our calling is connected to our area of dominion.
Sunday Adelaja
It is a special privilege and calling to live in two millenniums.
Sunday Adelaja
Life and calling are founded on relationships with other people.
Sunday Adelaja
You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.
Sunday Adelaja
When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice for the truth
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I seek to uphold righteousness in all spheres of life
Sunday Adelaja
The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
Sunday Adelaja