Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 108

Convert every passing time of your life before it melts away.
Sunday Adelaja
You can reach the greatest height in the service of the Lord
Sunday Adelaja
People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people's individuality. Just because they're not on your path doesn't mean they are on the wrong track.
Ogwo David Emenike
I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applaud their strength, and I remind them that we never know how strong we are until we are tested. And this life will test you... But it's not a competition. I want us all to make it.
Alfa H
Effectiveness in life is a measure of how many products you are able to produce in life
Sunday Adelaja
Effectiveness of life is not in self aggrandising
Sunday Adelaja
Expand and extend yourself to effectively fulfill purpose
Sunday Adelaja
Your gift is not what you do but what you are
Sunday Adelaja
Find time for a private conversation with your creator so that you can ask Him about the purpose of your existence
Sunday Adelaja
When you live by understanding, you will not be fooled any longer
Sunday Adelaja
There is no victory without battles
Sunday Adelaja
The greatest honor is the right direction one is turned into by the Holy Spirit
Sunday Adelaja
Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God will witness about every one of us
Sunday Adelaja
If liberty is abused, get ready for an awkward result
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t act based on religion always have a purpose and focus
Sunday Adelaja
The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.
Sunday Adelaja
Just as you are what you think, you are also what you dream.
Sunday Adelaja
It is pointless to be called by God’s name and not have His respect
Sunday Adelaja
There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.
Sunday Adelaja
To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.
Sunday Adelaja
An inferiority complex is acquired in childhood
Sunday Adelaja
When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions
Sunday Adelaja
Everyone can find the field in which he is gifted, his favorite activity and devote his time to it, instead of working for a good income, but no satisfaction
Sunday Adelaja
Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut.
Michael Bassey Johnson
To Avoid Self Destruction Is Not To Be Grouped Through Life By Pursuing Education Alone
Sunday Adelaja
You too can become great but only thanks to the number of hours you are able to convert into products.
Sunday Adelaja
Knowledge is NOT power. The correct application of knowledge is power.
Izey Victoria Odiase
The best thing that ever happened to you might be your new job, spouse, awards, etc, but I tell you that being granted to live in order to enjoy these things are wonderful privileges most people can't get.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We have to continually grow in the knowledge of Christ, in order to avoid every limitation of our human understanding, and allow the Lordship of God’s information, which is hidden in His wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Becoming God’s reflection first in our private life and walking before God creates a wonderful platform for us to be eligible to change a whole nation for God
Sunday Adelaja
People should see genuine, authentic love in the church
Sunday Adelaja
They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too, as the great Philip Roth put it. So if everyone in America aspires to be WASPs, then what do WASPs aspire to? Does anyone know?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
If you hold fast to the past, the devil will take advantage of this and use it as a weapon against you
Sunday Adelaja
You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose
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Personal destiny is discovered through teachings
Sunday Adelaja
It is easy to say, but there is no way I could personally address every single problem in my nation, they are too many. Oh yea, you cannot fix all problems, but you can fix some problems, more importantly you could bring enlightenment to all others around you
Sunday Adelaja
Afterwards, as he held me and stroked my hair, my body was singing with pleasure, I couldn’t believe I had waited so long. I thought of how we had wasted a whole year we could have had together and I felt so sad I wanted to cry.
Somi Ekhasomhi
If you don’t have the faith in principles and you don’t believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won’t be able achieve anything in life.
Sunday Adelaja
Good intentions aren't enough, you must take right actions.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Time is the source of greatness
Sunday Adelaja
Many Christians are like servants with “shoes.
Sunday Adelaja
The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product.
Sunday Adelaja
Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants
Michael Bassey Johnson
It doesn't matter to me that my leaving will cost you money. It doesn't matter that my space will take time to fill. What matters is that I'm happy and if you're not willing to invest in me, then I'm willing to cost you money.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
A defining factor of team success is trust in God.
Sunday Adelaja
To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.
Sunday Adelaja
Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You must however pay attention to the fact that we don’t only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t focus on miracles, believe and be strong in eternal virtues like miracle.
Sunday Adelaja
Come to the Lord with boldness and talk to Him in prayer
Sunday Adelaja
All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes.
Sunday Adelaja
When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
You will be successful if you are focused on your work
Sunday Adelaja
Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.
Timi Nadela
The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole
Sunday Adelaja
Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself.
Sunday Adelaja