Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 5

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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
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
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.
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
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
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
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
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
Sunday Adelaja
No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone
Sunday Adelaja
A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.
Michael Bassey Johnson
True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.
Sunday Adelaja
When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.
Ufuoma Apoki
You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests.
Michael Bassey Johnson
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.
Michael Bassey Johnson
People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don’t. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
Speakers are very busy people, with their own lives.Once you remember that sentence then it’s easy to know how to treat them and attract them.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
And finally have fun with it. If you’re not having fun, your speakers won’t have fun, and your participants won’t have fun. No matter what happens, remember that marketing should be fun, and life should be enjoyed.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many yeses as long as you have a system that works for you.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
Sunday Adelaja
Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.
Sunday Adelaja
Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!
Michael Bassey Johnson
If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.
Michael Bassey Johnson
One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us
Ikechukwu Izuakor
The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.
Helen Oyeyemi
I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
Sunday Adelaja
The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.
Michael Bassey Johnson