Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 21

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You are the most priced before God.Acknowledge this
Ikechukwu Joseph
When you are intense, you will do things persistently and with speed
Sunday Adelaja
Mankind’s original destiny was to extend God’s glorious dominion of love throughout the earth
Sunday Adelaja
When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Is it really true that the only good thing a Blackman can offer in a relationship with a white woman is thunderous sex?Of course, sex plays a vital healing role in every loving relationship. That is a fact of life. But, as we discover in the story of Glasgow Kiss, sex is not always the only thing that occupies a Blackman’s mind. On the contrary, when a man is as passionate, dedicated, committed and determined as Mamadu is to fight and hold onto his true love, irrespective of the numerous challenges he faces, he is able show that it is far more important to pay attention to his heartbeat than the growing erection in his trousers!
Frank McChebe
If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?
Michael Bassey Johnson
The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t waste time on employment, discover yourself today
Sunday Adelaja
Amidst the whole peril in the world, here’s why you’re still alive–to find your purpose. Your purpose will ignite hope in others.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
Sunday Adelaja
Success comes from developing a strong inner character
Sunday Adelaja
Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t just make use of a gift, look inside you and maximize others
Sunday Adelaja
Discover and understand the true essence of time so as to know how best to utilize and effectively manage it
Sunday Adelaja
It is rather your limitation that decides to what extent of greatness and to what height you are going to arise in this life. Your level of promotion in life is determined by how much you know.
Sunday Adelaja
Church and business are compatible
Sunday Adelaja
Service to humanity is the key to gaining the Kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Christians should be good managers and stewards of God’s riches
Sunday Adelaja
God is short of responsible men which explains why he said “who shall I send and who would go for us?
Sunday Adelaja
We Are The Salt Of The Earth, We should Add Godly Flavour to People's Lives via Our Words
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Youths are the life blood of any nation.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Don’t be satisfied with a particular sphere of influence only
Sunday Adelaja
Meditate only on that which God has laid in your spirit, so that you will not live on the past
Sunday Adelaja
The pathway to a truly successful life is to yearn, learn and earn.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God
Sunday Adelaja
it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The more you know, the more you can do. The more you can do the bigger you become
Sunday Adelaja
Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
Sunday Adelaja
If you live by the grace of God and you constantly recognise His grace in your life, then your weakness turns into strength
Sunday Adelaja
Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play as well.
Sunday Adelaja
The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is so important that we as spiritual people should not define ourselves only by our profession
Sunday Adelaja
Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
God can only relate effectively with you when you relate with people
Sunday Adelaja
Joseph moved to prove his sincerity in his vision-they moved ahead to invalidate his sincerity and what they think is his imaginative illusion.
Ikechukwu Joseph
In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and hence have a higher chance of receiving innovative ideas and concepts.
Sunday Adelaja
It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that time into doing what you were born to do that you can attain greatness and live a fulfilled life.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.
Sunday Adelaja
The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt.
Sunday Adelaja
A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes.
Sunday Adelaja
When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.
Sunday Adelaja
You need speed to regain your lost years
Sunday Adelaja
Time used to do irrelevancies can be channeled into something productive instead
Sunday Adelaja
Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.
Fela Durotoye
You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude.
Sunday Adelaja
Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams
Sunday Adelaja
It was snowing when I got off the bus at Flax Hill. Not quite regular snowfall, not exactly a blizzard. This is how it was: The snow came down heavily, settled for about a minute, then the wind moved it - more rolled it, really - onto another target. One minute you were covered in snow, then it sped off sideways, as if a brisk, invisible giant had taken pity and brushed you down.
Helen Oyeyemi
Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.
Sunday Adelaja
Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.
Idowu Koyenikan
A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects
Sunday Adelaja
For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion.
Sunday Adelaja