Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 8

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
Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.
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
When you come to know God personally and He becomes your close Friend, you will live an easy and fulfilled life.
Sunday Adelaja
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
There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.
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
If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented
Sunday Adelaja
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
You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.
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
Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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
When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.
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
Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future.
Michael Bassey Johnson
One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.
Idowu Koyenikan
The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.
Idowu Koyenikan
The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!
Michael Bassey Johnson
Failure is not fatal nor that you are finished but the result of unfinished product waiting to be reproduced, reprocessed and polished. Failure is that you have learned your omissions, mistakes or what you did not do right or well at the last attempt. You can transform failure into a fortune by dealing with what went wrong. Failure is only a product of uncorrected mistakes.
Ikechukwu Joseph
Champions are made and not born. Champion’s feat are acquired and not inherited, earned and not transferred, attained and not deposited
Ikechukwu Joseph
In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.
Ikechukwu Joseph
Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in you your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!
Michael Bassey Johnson
...be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.
Michael Bassey Johnson
My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.
Michael Bassey Johnson