Quotes by South African Authors - Page 46

There's no need to lay low. Go right ahead and give the world your brilliance
Nicky Verd
Planting and harvest don't happen in the same season
Nicky Verd
There is an economy in your mindThere is an economy in your mind!
Nicky Verd
When the struggle is over, those that have distance themselves from you will line-up to re-introduce themselves!
Nicky Verd
Nothing moves unless you are determined to push
Nicky Verd
Thinking small is not humility.
Nicky Verd
Every man reaches his destination, if he just keeps walking
Philen Naidu
Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.
Leila Summers
~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~
Michelle Horst
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Nelson Mandela
I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?.
Gift Gugu Mona
From the sadness, learn something; from the happiness, learn something. From the setback, learn something and even from the success learn something. Never stop learning from any situation in life, for that is where the wisdom lies.
Gift Gugu Mona
I will always appreciate those who made me go through rough times because without those, I wouldn't have the wisdom and power that lies within me now.
Gift Gugu Mona
It is wise to admit one's wrongs because it creates room for correction.
Gift Gugu Mona
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost
Greg Hamerton
A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
Desmond Tutu
If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.
Anthon St. Maarten
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
Desmond Tutu
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul.
Chimnese Davids
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
Andrew Murray
God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.
Kim Clement
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
Desmond Tutu
Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.
Shirley Corder
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
Desmond Tutu
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.
Bryce Courtenay
Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.
J.M. Coetzee
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
Nadine Gordimer
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)
J.M. Coetzee
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
J.M. Coetzee
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nelson Mandela
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
Desmond Tutu
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.
Nelson Mandela
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
Nelson Mandela
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
Nelson Mandela
A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
Nelson Mandela
I am the captain of my soul.
Nelson Mandela
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place
Iain Thomas
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
Andrew Murray
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 the 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
But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.
Iain Thomas
Language is the key to the heart of people.
Ahmed Deedat
That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.
Iain Thomas
I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton
Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.
Tarryn Fisher
In love, no question is ever preposterous.
André Brink