Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 6

Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position
Ikechukwu Joseph
Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last. When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.
Sunday Adelaja
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
Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated
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
True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.
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
Humans could be termed as biomasses when they don’t fully put into use their human qualifications.
Sunday Adelaja
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
The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction.
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
It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God’s laws do not change and His word is steadfast
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
A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.
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
I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want to go, you can, but don't come back again to this house. Comfort was beautiful, but her stealing attributes brought reproach on her and painted her beauty with dark impressions. I looked at her, walking barefooted on the muddy ground congested with rain water.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.
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
Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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
Your victory depends on how much you believe in God’s power
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