Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 51

Dedication to God will make you like a magnet in your sphere of influence
Sunday Adelaja
Rich and wealth comes to a man only through diligence
Sunday Adelaja
Only diligence will give you wealth
Sunday Adelaja
Wealth and riches are not evil, it is having love for wealth and riches that is evil
Sunday Adelaja
When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.
Sunday Adelaja
Mostly, when Jess didn't want to talk about her ideas in class, Colleen thought that Jess was showing off, making sure that she would be coaxed and pleaded with, but how could Jess have explained in a coherent way that she was scared? Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.
Helen Oyeyemi
Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on.
Richmond Akhigbe
Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions.
Sunday Adelaja
God allows us, through thoughts, ideas, words and revelations, to imagine things in ourconscious mind that He has already created in the invisible spirit realm.
Sunday Adelaja
There are two causes for "burning": passionate desires coming from our thoughts, and flirting.
Sunday Adelaja
Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I paid for two seats at the back of the car to give my thighs breathing space. The gangly man sitting next to me used the extra space to spread his legs as widely as possible, leaving me squeezed once again against the window. I was livid. Months of travelling cheek-by-jowl in cars had instilled in me a new-found loathing of men’s legs, which, like air, seem constantly to expand to fill the space available. I’m amazed they’re not all buried in Y-shaped coffins.
Noo Saro-Wiwa
It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done.
Sunday Adelaja
Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’‘No.’‘It is to be at home everywhere.
Ben Okri
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Ben Okri
When we’ve been travelling around I’ve often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I’ve seen everything I’ve decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.
Ben Okri
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.
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
A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When God blesses you, the highest form of gratitude is open-handedness.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Greatness isn't worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
We are all citizens of the world and we owe it to the world to make it a better place.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Even Karma rewards generosity. The good that you do must surely catch up with you!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Giving is a necessary good
Chinonye J. Chidolue
For every good deed done, a blessing is waiting to be born!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Giving is recieving
Chinonye J. Chidolue
When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.
Ufuoma Apoki
What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.
Igbinovia Ixrael Lee
You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.
Michael Bassey Johnson
My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.
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
Compassion brings people together.
Sunday Adelaja
Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you've been on this side, then you'll have more compassion and understanding for those still on this side when you get to the other side, because you know how it feels like to be on this side. Sometimes though, relief comes too sudden and good that we tend to lose our sense of empathy for those still on this side, and it's amazing how we've forgotten so soon how it felt like to be on this side. How would it have felt if you were treated the same way you treat those who are on this side by those who were on the other side, when you were still on this side, now that you are on the other side?
Ufuoma Apoki
You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!
Kemi Sogunle
She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.
Alfa H
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Chinua Achebe
Prayer is the answer to earthly troubles.
Grace Dola Balogun
The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils.
Michael Bassey Johnson
our life does not belong to us any more, it is now the life of Jesus Christ that lives in us.
Sunday Adelaja
We became God’s carriers because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
Sunday Adelaja