Quotes by South African Authors - Page 43

If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.
Julian Pencilliah
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
Nadine Gordimer
He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.
Damon Galgut
The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.
Unarine Ramaru
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it.
Gugu Mona
If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred
Christina Engela
Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.
Christina Engela
Sometimes you should ask yourself if the world would be a better place without your existence, then you would know if you are on the right path or not.
Gift Gugu Mona
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
Elon Musk
The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people.
Savo Heleta
I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of conflict. It only takes bad leadership for a country to go up in flames, for people of different ethnicity, color, or religion to kill each other as if they had nothing in common whatsoever. Having a democratic constitution, laws that secure human rights, police that maintain order, a judicial system, and freedom of speech don't ultimately guarantee long lasting peace. If greedy or bloodthirsty leaders come to power, it can all go down. It happened to us. It can happen to you.
Savo Heleta
Your persona, talents, desires, etc. are intricately connected to your life’s purpose. The synchronicity of your persona, talents, desires, passions, dreams, etc. is not a coincidence.
D.S Mashego
Some things don’t just happen, they happen because somebody decided to make them happen.
D.S Mashego
Your propensity to succeed in life is largely dependent on your understanding of the concept, your ability to discover your purpose, and your willingness to pursue and act on your purpose.
D.S Mashego
Your assignment will always be a forerunner to others’ assignments. Also, others’ assignments will always be forerunners to yours.
D.S Mashego
It is so wrong to run away from your purpose – you may be running away with a solution that may solve the world’s problems or save mankind.
D.S Mashego
The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.
Paula Gruben
The more excuses you make, the less progress you make!
Nicky Verd
Challenges turned the eye inward to empower a renewed self for an enhanced future.
Mala Naidoo
Reading is air in my lungs, fire in my blood, company in my thoughts.
Mala Naidoo
A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard
Mala Naidoo
Make your life like toilet paper. Long and usefull.
Wolfgang Riebe
How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a while to smoke a pipe before proceeding on their separate ways. No more.Alone. Alone to the very end. I… every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world?
André Brink
The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders
Malebo Sephodi
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
Athol Fugard
I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart
Judy Croome
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Nadine Gordimer
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
Nadine Gordimer
God has been FAITHFUL to me, in Him I have FAITH.
Gift Gugu Mona
God has been FAITHFUL to me, that why I have FAITH in Him.
Gift Gugu Mona
God has been FAITHFUL to me, He still is and always will be; that's why I have FAITH in Him.
Gift Gugu Mona
The giver is more than the gift; God is more than the blessing. And our being kept waiting on Him is the only way for our learning to find our life and joy in Himself. Oh, if God’s children only knew what a glorious God they have, and what a privilege it is to be linked in fellowship with Him, then they would rejoice in Him! Even when He keeps them waiting, they will learn to understand better than ever. ”Therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you.” His waiting will be the highest proof of His graciousness.
Andrew Murray
Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems impossible, Faith makes it possible.
Gift Gugu Mona
Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life.
Gift Gugu Mona
Faith is when you choose to trust the Lord, even when there's a lot at stake.
Gift Gugu Mona
Never let fear control you, let faith take control.
Gift Gugu Mona
Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems possible, Faith makes it possible.
Gift Gugu Mona
Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.
Unarine Ramaru
Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.
Andrew Murray
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
Desmond Tutu
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
Desmond Tutu
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Desmond Tutu
Even ivory towers need central heating.
Breyten Breytenbach
I searched for my own heartand long after I had lost my wayin the days trailing past with their foliagein the aloof sky blue with distanceI thought I'd find my heartwhere I'd kept your eyes two brown butterfliesand I saw the swallows swoopand shadows starlings
Ingrid Jonker
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.
J.M. Coetzee
That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)
Chimnese Davids
We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana