Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 8

The net is not a net until it begins to work. Work your network today!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God indeed could show up, but we must first show good stewardship by taking good care of our land.
Sunday Adelaja
Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.
Sunday Adelaja
To build up people teach them to be administrators and managers.
sundayadelaja
A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.
Sunday Adelaja
Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.
Sunday Adelaja
To shine and outshine the shining stars, to take your abilities to the greatest height, to sit on top of the world, you must fortify yourself with persistence, the determination and willingness to stay in the same direction over a long period of time whatever the cost might be.
Ogwo David Emenike
Hold on to God, hold on to your visions and continue to develop them
Sunday Adelaja
Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.
Sunday Adelaja
He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds.
Chigozie Obioma
I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.
Helen Oyeyemi
Will Power is The Key AndDriver of Your Life Journey
Osazee Williams Omoregie
The New Testament is a manifestation of God in the flesh.
Sunday Adelaja
The Larger A Purpose, The Bigger The Manifestation
Sunday Adelaja
Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation
Sunday Adelaja
God will always turn trials, national and personal into the manifestation of His glory
Sunday Adelaja
It is not the size of a person in the fight, but the size of the fight in a person is what determines victory.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
To stop working, striving and pushing, just because you have enough, therefore is a disservice to the Divine.
Sunday Adelaja
Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God’s Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
To be motivated by divine love is to see your promise land as a platform to share the love of God with others
Sunday Adelaja
It was snowing when I got off the bus at Flax Hill. Not quite regular snowfall, not exactly a blizzard. This is how it was: The snow came down heavily, settled for about a minute, then the wind moved it - more rolled it, really - onto another target. One minute you were covered in snow, then it sped off sideways, as if a brisk, invisible giant had taken pity and brushed you down.
Helen Oyeyemi
Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator.
Okey Ndibe
Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.
Kiru Taye
...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before her eyes: that in the absurd raffle-draw that apportioned the destinies of post-colonial African societies two people starting off even as identical twins in the morning might quiet easily find themselves in the evening one as President shitting on the heads of the people and the other a nightman carrying the people's shit in buckets on his head.
Chinua Achebe
If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting sensless wars, dying of poverty and aids- unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before they get to know me.What they do not know isThe pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.So you think I am nothing?Don’t worry about what I am now,For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.I will raise my head high wherever I goBecause of my African pride,And nobody will take that away from me.
Idowu Koyenikan
You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.
Idowu Koyenikan
… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.
Helen Oyeyemi
I watch what happens below and Iam grateful that I can smell my smell, smell my smell and live while below me it happens, it happens that night bright as day, but I cannot name it, those things that happened while I watched, and I cannot speak something that was never in words, speak of things I cannot imagine, could never have seen even as I saw it, and I hide and am grateful for my smell crouched like an animal in that dark hot space
Chris Abani
The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it becomes irresponsibility.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by so doing you will make your world a better place than you met it.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Someone’s darkness disappears when you show up and allow your light to shine
Yemi Akinsiwaju
When Today Is Properly Lived With Purpose, Love And Passion, There Is No Fear For Tomorrow.
Yemi Akinsiwaju
So many businesses today have wind-up because of fear of failing.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world
Chika Onyenezi
Use political positions as a platform to introduce legislation based on kingdom principle
Sunday Adelaja
Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity
Sunday Adelaja
Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.
Nnedi Okorafor
We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.
Sunday Adelaja
But facts abound to the affirmation that most Christians in my nation Nigeria and all around the world, would rather pray to God to come and fix their country than do something about it themselves.
Sunday Adelaja
It is much better to be addicted to the Word of God than to be in a critical condition because you didn’t pray
Sunday Adelaja
To instruct others is to engage the simplicity of receiving eternal life
Sunday Adelaja
First of all a person has to get victory over himself.
Sunday Adelaja
Victory is the result of a battle
Sunday Adelaja
To conquer the land we need to win a battle
Sunday Adelaja
In order to step into our Promised Land we need to cross River Jordan.
Sunday Adelaja
Walking with God will always bring victory.
Sunday Adelaja
Those who praise God abide in victory.
Sunday Adelaja
There is much more joy in being a survivor than been a quitter.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
A winner is a person, who is programmed for victory in advance
Sunday Adelaja
A winner’s mentality always works towards victory
Sunday Adelaja
The mentality of a believer is a mentality of a person who believes in the victory already provided by God even if it cannot be seen now
Sunday Adelaja
Each victory with God can bring a reassurance once more that the ones born of God are victorious
Sunday Adelaja