Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 126

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
God did not just create you to be a nice person and eat hamburgers until you die
Sunday Adelaja
The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you can practice the rule of ten thousand hours, you will be amazed to find out how easy it is to become the best in that your area of calling.
Sunday Adelaja
Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Always work and take productive actions
Sunday Adelaja
To establish principles of her kingdom is to function In Optimal Health
Sunday Adelaja
He created you with your special features because he was aware of your destination
Sunday Adelaja
The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
To understand the new birth is to have a revelation of its mystery
Sunday Adelaja
Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams
Sunday Adelaja
Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you
Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of the kingdom is about hard work.
Sunday Adelaja
God is the only source of happiness and money
Sunday Adelaja
There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding
Sunday Adelaja
The path leading to stability is always opened to the sons of God
Sunday Adelaja
In the human society, it is difficult to find all angels flapping there wings and all saints singing halleluya.
late chief gani fahewinmi
Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A leader must be taught or made to know the importance of justice for the people.
Sunday Adelaja
When you realize your purpose, it brings understanding deep within you
Sunday Adelaja
Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value.
Sunday Adelaja
Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this crazy, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.
Helen Oyeyemi
Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God in his infinite wisdom has deposited in everything the potential for growth and multiplication.
Sunday Adelaja
We were created fearless in order to achieve our goals more effectively
Sunday Adelaja
Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting. But the mandate is clear, his nature must be reflected on the earth. If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth. If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis. If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe. If fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society
Sunday Adelaja
When you live in light, you live under God’s rulership.
Sunday Adelaja
The guidance of the Holy Spirit enables us to know God’s will for our life
Sunday Adelaja
A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you.
Kemi Sogunle
Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.
Ogwo David Emenike
Our life is a gift and a blessing from God
Sunday Adelaja
It is hard work that is supposed to be your greatest possession
Sunday Adelaja
There is no worship for God without the honor of fellow man
Sunday Adelaja
It is necessary to approach the study of the issue from all sides to find as much information as possible on this issue
Sunday Adelaja
An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets you up on greater grounds of success more than you ever anticipated.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
You are not better than your thought... As a man thinks so is he..
Ikechukwu Joseph
You are far more than a biomass
Sunday Adelaja
When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy
Sunday Adelaja
You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.
Sunday Adelaja
No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God.
Sunday Adelaja
An outdoor café and your French beret are quick ways to my soul, but a good jazz is like standing next to my heart. Don't sail away without your sail-mate, because I've charted our course to a sunset paradise. ~ Fidelis O Mkparu (2016), author of 'Love's Affliction
Fidelis O Mkparu
You were born on this planet with a definite purpose and the entire world is in need of the gift you have
Sunday Adelaja
Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world
Sunday Adelaja
Cleverness in itself is useless. It’s like a peacock’s feathers – an extravagant display used by those who crave attention.The mind’s worth is revealed when clever solves real problems.
Sola Kosoko
Serving humanity is fulfilling the description of Christ
Sunday Adelaja
Your thinking has the potentiality to make you a kid or a king, in it lies your enthronement or dethronement.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Without delayed gratification,there is no perseverance.
Sunday Adelaja
Money is a compensation for time spent
Sunday Adelaja
When you empower your people, your business will be grow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Very frequently we only dream and do so because we do not know how to go from a dream to fulfilment
Sunday Adelaja
Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production.
Sunday Adelaja
God's blessings don't automatically ward off the attacks of the devil as he tries to tempt us with sexual immorality
Sunday Adelaja
Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before they get to know me.What they do not know isThe pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.So you think I am nothing?Don’t worry about what I am now,For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.I will raise my head high wherever I goBecause of my African pride,And nobody will take that away from me.
Idowu Koyenikan
To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).
Sunday Adelaja
Your resources could go to where your hands could not reach.
Sunday Adelaja
When we go out knowing whose interests we are representing, people cannot oppose us because it is pointless to fight God, who lives in us
Sunday Adelaja