Quotes by South African Authors - Page 42

If you have legs that work, walk in the right direction. If you have an audible voice, say constructive words. If you have functional eyes, see great things. If you are in a position of power, use it productively and if you have a sound mind, think exceptionally; for such is not a given, but grace.
Gift Gugu Mona
The best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.
Gift Gugu Mona
I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with regret for the things I didn't do, the choices I didn't make, the things I didn't say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have to answer to. "What if..." "If only...""I wonder what would have..." You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.
Trevor Noah
Some lesson are learnt the hard way, but worthy.
Gift Gugu Mona
Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it.
Gift Gugu Mona
Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.
Trevor Noah
Ensure that your fame doesn't bring you shame.
Gift Gugu Mona
You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money
Foster "Raul" Mkhabele
Nature is subtle and complex.
Marlene Van Niekerk
..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..
Marlene Van Niekerk
If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost
Greg Hamerton
Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are
Iain S. Thomas
That everything you want to happen, will happen, if you decide you want it enough. That every time you think a sad thought, you can think a happy one instead.That you control that completely.That the people who make you laugh are more beautiful than beautiful people. That you laugh more than you cry. That crying is good for you. That the people you hate wish you would stop and you do too.That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.That the most embarrassing, awkward moments of your life are only remembered by you and no one else
Iain S. Thomas
Morning has animated something in me, too, some dormant thing that for years has known only how to sit and wait. Get a move on, it says. Don't let the day get away.
Isla Morley
When our ‘thought life’ is in good shape, our thought processes shape-up, and quality decision-making becomes a norm. It is these quality decisions that will take you to your destiny. Change your thinking and affect your environment.
D.S Mashego
You have a great destiny ahead of you. The one thing that is standing between you and your destiny, is your mindset.To a greater extent, your success is largely dependent on your attitude towards life. Your thinking patterns determine how far you go in life. This is because your life is shaped by your thoughts. Therefore, it is imperative that you manage and invest in your ‘thought life’.
D.S Mashego
Purpose is the ultimate reason for your existence.
D.S Mashego
Wishful thinking will not take you to your destiny.
D.S Mashego
It is nobody’s responsibility but yours to discover your assignment and to execute that very assignment.
D.S Mashego
Discovering your God-given purpose does not necessarily put you in a place of omniscience.
D.S Mashego
Purpose discovery is a journey and not an event.
D.S Mashego
Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God’s greater purpose for mankind.
D.S Mashego
Start by asking the question ‘Why’. This is because behind the question ‘Why’ there lies answers to your question.
D.S Mashego
Life is too serious and precious for it to be left to chance. You have to make it your project to discover your purpose in life. You have to be intentional about it.
D.S Mashego
God’s master-plan is made up of our individual assignments whose collective objective is to impact mankind positively.
D.S Mashego
Running away from your purpose, not only disadvantages other people; it also compromises God’s greater purpose.
D.S Mashego
Your assignment is a pre-cursor to someone else’s assignment. In the same breath, someone else’s assignment is a pre-cursor to yours.
D.S Mashego
It’s been said that legends are those who shape change into greatness shaping change is one of the hallmarks of genius.
Julian Pencilliah
There are some people who may be good yet toxic for you, so be careful of who you surround yourself with.
Gift Gugu Mona
She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.
Mala Naidoo
Relationships are built in the silences.
Trevor Noah
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
Andrew Murray
Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.
Andrew Murray
12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pours down, images of women he has known on two continents, some from so far away in time that he barely recognizes them. Like leaves blown on the wind, pell-mell, they pass before him. A fair field full of folk: hundreds of lives all tangled with his. He holds his breath, willing the vision to continue.What has happened to them, all those women, all those lives? Are there moments when they too, or some of them, are plunged without warning into the ocean of memory? The German girl: is it possible that at this very instant she is remembering the man who picked her up on the roadside in Africa and spent the night with her? Enriched: that was the word the newspapers picked on to jeer at. A stupid word to let slip, under the circumstances, yet now, at this moment, he would stand by it. By Melanie, by the girl in Touws River; by Rosalind, Bev Shaw, Soraya: by each of them he was enriched, and by the others too, even the least of them, even the failures. Like a flower blooming in his breast, his heart floods with thankfulness.
J.M. Coetzee
When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.
Unarine Ramaru
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.
André Brink
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.
Nelson Mandela
We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Why?' says the boy.'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.''Why is staying alive more important than anything?'He is about to answer, about to produce the correct, patient, educative words, when something wells up inside him. Anger? No. Irritation? No: more than that. Despair? Perhaps: despair in one of its minor forms. Why? Because he would like to believe he is guiding the child through the maze of the moral life when, correctly, patiently, he answers his unceasing 'Why' questions. But where is there any evidence that the child absorbs his guidance or even hears what he says?He stops where he is on the busy sidewalk. Inés and the boy stop too, and stare at him in puzzlement. 'Think of it in this way,' he says. 'We are tramping through the desert, you and Inés and I. You tell me you are thirsty and I offer you a glass of water. Instead of drinking the water you pour it out in the sand. You say you thirst for answers: 'Why this? Why that?' I, because I am patient, because I love you, offer you an answer each time, which you pour away in the sand. Today, at last, I am tired of offering you water. 'Why is staying alive important?' If life does not seem important to you, so be it.'Inés raises a hand to her mouth in dismay. As for the boy, his face sets in a frown. 'You say you love me but you don't love me,' he says. 'You just pretend.
J.M. Coetzee
Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring
Seymour Papert
Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela
Limitations and Disbelief are the Worst Rules That Create The Prison of The Mind. Be Limitless
David Sikhosana
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there
David Sikhosana
Always put people first, for without them, there is no organization
David Sikhosana
Many people will often say you are a Smart, you are a Genius, give them a chance and they will say it enough for you to start believe it. When you get to that realization, Nothing will ever hold you back
David Sikhosana
Focus on The Present. Only The Present
David Sikhosana
Most people dont understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Dont Be. Focus
David Sikhosana
Never settle for less. Others may see it as lacking or not having. But Others also see it as having standards
David Sikhosana
Customers, Employees and Others in that Order will determine the Success of your Company
David Sikhosana
Understand Fundamental & Techical Analysis. Only then will you be Successful in Investing
David Sikhosana
You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana