Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 5

Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you!
Michael Bassey Johnson
Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position
Ikechukwu Joseph
I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.
Sunday Adelaja
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.
Michael Bassey Johnson
This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down
Sunday Adelaja
Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.
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
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
Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling.
Jaachynma N.E. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The earth is man’s domain.
Sunday Adelaja
Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.
Sunday Adelaja
If a man will identify with God in everything, God will use a man like that as His representative
Sunday Adelaja
It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.
Sunday Adelaja
For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose
Sunday Adelaja
A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding
Sunday Adelaja
Delayed gratification is what makes a man.
Sunday Adelaja
Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.
Sunday Adelaja
Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance
Michael Bassey Johnson
If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.
Michael Bassey Johnson
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong
Sunday Adelaja
Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you
Sunday Adelaja
English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.
Chigozie Obioma
Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.
Michael Bassey Johnson
From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.
Sunday Adelaja
We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Fruitfulness is impossible without action.
Sunday Adelaja
There is no reward for wishes.
Chinedum Azuh
Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
Sunday Adelaja
Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
Sunday Adelaja
It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer
Sunday Adelaja
False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
Sunday Adelaja
When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.
Michael Bassey Johnson