Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 125

Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.
Michael Bassey Johnson
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
To be productive, you must convert every minute of your time.
Sunday Adelaja
Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The Lord has predestined a certain path for every person
Sunday Adelaja
The mentality of seeking miracles from one place to another is destructive to the economy
Sunday Adelaja
Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.
Kemi Sogunle
A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.
Agu
It is important to remember that we are attacked not because we are bad, but because the devil doesn’t like God blessing us
Sunday Adelaja
I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. What I never knew, though, was that I was actually stronger than I thought I was.
Ufuoma Apoki
You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there
Sunday Adelaja
To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God
Sunday Adelaja
Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
If we could be humble enough to submit our passions, sentiments and even weaknesses to God Almighty, he would successfully convert them to something positive that would eventually glorify Him.
Sunday Adelaja
The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself
Sunday Adelaja
Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.
Michael Bassey Johnson
My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
When Satan begins to particularly attack to persecute you, it should be a sign of your strength
Sunday Adelaja
Regardless of what you are going through, God has a solution
Sunday Adelaja
God has no tolerance for ignorance therefore we should not have tolerance for ignorance also.
Sunday Adelaja
Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made.
Sunday Adelaja
So, once again, back to the question - just what IS power?Is it perhaps no more than a deadly mutation of ambition, one that may or may not translate into social activity? Any fool, any moron, any psychopath can aspire to the seizure and exercise of power, and of course the more psychopathic, the more efficient: Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Sergeant Doe and the latest in the line of the unconscionably driven, our own lately departed General Sanni Abacha - all have proved that power, as long as you are sufficiently ruthless, amoral and manipulative, is within the grasp of even the mentally deficient.
Wole Soyinka
The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become.
Sunday Adelaja
Do not always act out of religion
Sunday Adelaja
You are killing your life if you are just going through the traditions and routine of church services with no product to show for it.
Sunday Adelaja
A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.
Sunday Adelaja
Use your work as a platform to bring the principles of God to the people
Sunday Adelaja
The problem is not just the wrong ormistake that you did but the correction,/right you refused to do.
Ikechukwu Joseph
God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are
Sunday Adelaja
To restore a lost relationship is your choice
Sunday Adelaja
The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Life is all about discovery
Sunday Adelaja
I believe every minister of the gospel is called to this ministry first of all. The ministry of light, the ministry of destruction of darkness, the ministry of setting people free from ignorance.
Sunday Adelaja
In the silence of children, God exists, directing their thoughts and sending us subtle reminders as not forgetting gratitude even in the littlest of things.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Progress is impossible without accurate planning.
Sunday Adelaja
The beginning of a new millennium is to consider and reorganize our life
Sunday Adelaja
For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You must show the world that you are a chosen generation
Sunday Adelaja
Everything looks for you when you become great
Sunday Adelaja
If you give a five thousand dollar diamond ring to a two year old child, sooner or later, that child is going to lose the treasure. Even though you could have meant well, yet the child would misplace the diamond. It is obvious because that child doesn't know the value of a diamond ring.
Sunday Adelaja
Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is dehumanizing, demeaning and humiliating when you fail or refuse to acknowledge or respond to a Good Morning greeting. #Mannerism
Adeagbo Caleb Adewumi
If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him.
Sunday Adelaja
Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
If you fulfill God’s will, then God will always be your friend.
Sunday Adelaja
Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You should not think on a small scale, you are a gift to the entire planet earth
Sunday Adelaja
You are not on earth to simply make a living for yourself that is too small a purpose.
Sunday Adelaja
You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you don’t come closer to the goal and don’t make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain
Sunday Adelaja
The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest evil does its work and needs no interrogation, their invectives are just a waste of time, and the world is the most sweetest to those with a functional taste buds.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you want to live life, embrace change.
Sunday Adelaja
What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.
Fela Durotoye
Anger is like sex urge, once gratified, the inner voice calls you a stinking fool.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.
Sunday Adelaja
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.
Teju Cole