Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 82

People who don’t have patience don’t achieve anything in life.
Sunday Adelaja
Nothing great comes to pass in life without perseverance.
Sunday Adelaja
I love my story. Sure it's been difficult, but it's the story that got me here, the reason I am who I am.
Izey Victoria Odiase
Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to contribute to someone's else oppression. It means that you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others.
Luvvie Ajayi
Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
Kemi Sogunle
Bad people often end up as heroes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Having the understanding of God, God’s ambassadors are able to bring a country out of crisis, change politics, business and economy
Sunday Adelaja
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.
Chinua Achebe
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.
Chinua Achebe
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
Chinua Achebe
Do what is right. Not what you like.
Omoruyi Uwuigiaren
Neither (brother) even glaced at the counter. She smiled. Her dumb brothers never cooked. She didn’t think they even knew how! A human being who needs food to live but cannot prepare that food to eat? Pathetic. In this case, it was an advantage. They weren’t interested in any food until it had been cooked for them.
Nnedi Okorafor
At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness.
Kemi Sogunle
The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation
Sunday Adelaja
It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
Chinua Achebe
Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
It never really ends...Children surviving through the cold winds of neglect, and all kinds of misfortune and vile treatment.We see them everyday, with broken smiles that endure the painful kicking of their malnourished bellies protruded with dreams that may never see the light of conception...But with just a little kind word,A handful of promise,A heart of compassion,A smile full of hope,We would hold hands together in helping them conceive their dreams...Because they are the little bits and pieces that make us whole...
Chinonye J. Chidolue
You don't always get your dreams come to you in FULL DEFINITION. It usually comes in bits and pieces of the picture you've conceived in your mind; but it certainly comes. And when it comes, even blurry in LOW DEFINITION, and you recognize it, all you've got to do is make a little tweaks here and there and then you can fine tune it to the BEST DEFINITION. You however, have to DREAM!
Ufuoma Apoki
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the gaiety of fantasy is destroyed
Ufuoma Apoki
You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . . Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . . Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.
Ufuoma Apoki
From the point in life when a man/woman is responsible for his/her choices, he/she starts to live a story brought to life by the dreams that have been consciously or subconsciously conceived.
Ufuoma Apoki
You bear a significant importance to humanity. You exist to complete the mold. Each step you take, great or little is important to your self-growth and success. Don't be hard on yourself when things don't go right or when the journey seems tough. You have not just one extra year but an entire lifetime to keep trying until you get it right. Please be good to yourself by keeping hope alive always. It's not about the new year. It's about you!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Diligence makes big dreams come to past
Sunday Adelaja
Dreams give rise to visions in the heart of a man
Sunday Adelaja
Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams
Sunday Adelaja
In bringing dreams into fulfillment, your potential and extraordinary personality must be revealed
Sunday Adelaja
They will talk about you and it won't always be good. You won't even know them but they will critique you - and judge you - and everything you stand for. Their words will cut through your heart-strings and make you question the hopes and dreams that have gnawed your soul since birth. I warn you, because I believe your unique gift of expression needs to be shared. Resist cowering down and holding back for fear of rejection. Spread those creative wings and create. But, prepare yourself. Because naysayers are not a possibility, they are a guarantee.
Alfa H
Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in
Fola
You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow’s peace out of today’s crisis.
Ikechukwu Joseph
Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.
Chinelo Okparanta
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
People love it when you criticise some things which they do not believe in, practices which are contrary to what they practice or contrary views. They call you objective and truthfulBut immediately you start disagreeing with their views, criticising their beliefs, expressing contrary views against what they support, they call you foul names, say you are not a child of God, ask who you are to judge.Listen and listen good, I love writing and I write based on inspiration and experience.I don't just write, I write to capture the minds of my readers and to spark reaction. I welcome contrary views, I love you opposing my stance cos in the process I learn some things from you.Don't get mad at me for expressing myself via writing. I love putting things down. Learn to tolerate my views and counter me when you don't agree.Stop holding grudges and developing unnecessary hatred. Life is too short to be closed minded and inclined. Life is too short for me to idolize anybody.I can't always be dancing to your tunes, you also have to dance to mine.
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
The kindest and most compassionate people I have come across are not religious.
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Respect when earned, should be protected because when lost, it would be hard to recover it. When one trusts and relies on you so much and you take it for granted, the day such a person would take a decision to disrespect you, forget it, you are a goner
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
When old people talk too much in presence of younger persons, they wouldn't know when their value would be diminishing.Talk less especially when a younger person is in your midst, it's a sign of dignity
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen
Sunday Adelaja
Leave the company of the people who are given you empty promises
Sunday Adelaja
By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words
Sunday Adelaja
The government can make laws but they can’t make people live by these laws
Sunday Adelaja
It is what we sow into people that they become
Sunday Adelaja
It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is important is what God thinks of us
Sunday Adelaja
Most people living in the world are confused about life
Sunday Adelaja
God always has His chosen people who are called to deliver a nation – remnant
Sunday Adelaja
Our assignment is to show the people all the qualities of God
Sunday Adelaja
God always raises deliverers from among the people
Sunday Adelaja
The church represents the people of God who are the real power of any nation
Sunday Adelaja
True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent
Sunday Adelaja
Become great in God’s eyes so as to bring freedom to your people
Sunday Adelaja
Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t expect a reward for what you do, from people, rather what matters is how you walk and are valued by God
Sunday Adelaja
God himself is pleading through us for people to be reconciled to him, if we prepare our body for him
Sunday Adelaja