Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 117

Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders
Fela Durotoye
Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.
Sunday Adelaja
The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life
Sunday Adelaja
Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.
Sunday Adelaja
Want to keep your life? Look for work, not a job
Sunday Adelaja
When you have an idea about something, let begin to work on it to bring it to life
Sunday Adelaja
Work gives us access and opportunities.
Sunday Adelaja
The expression of gratitude for whatever blessing you receive from God here on earth can only be in Joy
Sunday Adelaja
Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor
Sunday Adelaja
Our fellowship is with God and His people
Sunday Adelaja
Gratitude unlocks the door of opportunities, blessing, greatness and prosperity. Gratitude is your key to a worthy life.
Sesan Kareem
If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?
Michael Bassey Johnson
Every human being is been given some assignment on the earth
Sunday Adelaja
Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.
Sunday Adelaja
It is only when you trust in God that you can make it life
Sunday Adelaja
The New Testament is a manifestation of God in the flesh.
Sunday Adelaja
Every assignment has a natural and supernatural aspect
Sunday Adelaja
A ‘biomass’ man tries to look good on the outside but inside he is afraid of himself
Sunday Adelaja
After you discover your purpose, you have to build a platform for your calling
Sunday Adelaja
Put your converted time into something productive
Sunday Adelaja
When God created the earth, He intended that everything that has breath would enjoy relationship with the creator
Sunday Adelaja
The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work
Sunday Adelaja
Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders
Sunday Adelaja
Some goes to church to seek prosperity
Sunday Adelaja
Whatever your passion, make sure you hold unto a philosophy that is bigger and greater than you.
Sunday Adelaja
Quality brings security and confidence
Sunday Adelaja
Victory is the result of a battle
Sunday Adelaja
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR.
Sunday Adelaja
All your solutions are in people, and you can only be free when you love them
Sunday Adelaja
You have to discover how best you can manage your time to carry out your work effectively
Sunday Adelaja
Mutual understanding and help are the foundation of a strong team.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work
Sunday Adelaja
I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To lose time is to lose life
Sunday Adelaja
You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of worth in our lifetime.
Sunday Adelaja
I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.
Helen Oyeyemi
Persistent work always brings a person successful results
Sunday Adelaja
When it seems there is no way out, it indicates that God wants to manifest His power and glory
Sunday Adelaja
You do not need to be perfect to be the best. Your attitude determines your altitude
Ikechukwu Joseph
Until you have answered the question “Who am I” you will not be capable of living your own life
Sunday Adelaja
To pursue selfish personal ideas is not wise enough
Sunday Adelaja
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.
Wole Soyinka
For some folks fate has set countless falls and a fewer loves. If they farewell faith, then, farewell their chance of lifelong happiness.
Darmie O-Lujon
The body is a dwelling of the spirit.
Sunday Adelaja
One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is.
Sunday Adelaja
Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you
Sunday Adelaja
A sound idea is a form of energy. It can not be destroyed. It evolves from inspiration, to a function of preparation, then determination - till the ideator's dream becomes actualized in real lifeAt the very least, success is a second iteration of the original, unscripted IdeaSo your idea refinement process needs to be test-drivenTestDetermine on time if investment in terms of effort and time is worth itWork SmartFail early, fail often,Success lies on the paths yet to be treaded,Open your mind,Think Disruption,Be FlexibleBe AGILEI think this is an idea worth sharing
Eniitan Akinola
Don’t let your society and environment dictate what you do with your time
Sunday Adelaja
A failure is not one who has attempted and failed but one who has failed to attempt for fear of failing.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Principles can actually grow and overwhelm the things you are afraid of.
Sunday Adelaja
Unfortunately a lot of people in the world live almost unconsciously
Sunday Adelaja
God is limited by our ignorance.
Sunday Adelaja
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?
Michael Bassey Johnson
God is interested in how you relate to Him
Sunday Adelaja
Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.
Ogwo David Emenike
We need to bless instead of condemning, we need to learn to stand for the truth of God and for our rights
Sunday Adelaja
People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.
Ufuoma Apoki
Life demands something else, discomfort and pain.
Sunday Adelaja