Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 35

Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives...
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
So, no, this conversation is about gender. Some people will say, "Oh, but women have the real power: bottom power." (This is a Nigerian expression for a woman who uses her sexuality to get things from men.) But bottom power is not power at all, because the woman with bottom power is actually not powerful; she just has a good route to tap another person's power. And then what happens if the man is in a bad mood or sick or temporarily impotent?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One thing is needful and that is converting your time into fulfilling your purpose on the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.
Sunday Adelaja
The church needs to arise not just against total and absolute ignorance, the church also needs to arise against half-truth or falsehood, which is some of the things that are prevailing in our churches today.
Sunday Adelaja
Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you have to remember that doing so will lead to change. Be willing to learn from experiences, grow and live to become better not bitter.
Kemi Sogunle
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is complexes that prevent women with a good appearance from adequately assessing themselves
Sunday Adelaja
The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they merely wanted the gesture of her presence. They had not read her blog but they had heard that she was a “leading blogger” about race.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.
Sunday Adelaja
Options abound in our world. You can choose where to stay and how to stay there. Where you are Today is as a result of the option you took yesterday and no doubt where you will be Tomorrow is embedded in your option Today. Choose right; choose wisely, Take THE BEST OPTION. The Best Option will deliver your inheritance to you. It will change your state and deliver to you, your brand new estate. You do not blame anyone for failing to do it right the first time. You accept the blame. The Best Option will cause you to get it right the first time and always.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him
Sunday Adelaja
You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose
Sunday Adelaja
Those who are not working toward a better life and those who do not take responsibility for their destinies do not have victories
Sunday Adelaja
If you would devote your time to an activity even if you didn’t receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny
Sunday Adelaja
Creativity is just about connecting things. A whole lot of nonsense put together, and diluted with a creative passion can eventually make sense. Keep thinking. Exploring. Keep trying out new ways and methods of doing things and just when you least expect, you may stumble on that next great world-changing idea that will make all the difference.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Nobody will live your life for you.
Sunday Adelaja
It is an insult to live in the fear of darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
With so much "Moos" from the herd, how you gon' get heard?
Chinonye J. Chidolue
If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem.
Sunday Adelaja
Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show for it.
Sunday Adelaja
An active civil position will make you become the hero of your time.
Sunday Adelaja
Merit is better than miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
To help people is to help God
Sunday Adelaja
Together with the call comes responsibility
Sunday Adelaja
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Ben Okri
The sheer size, extent, and magnitude of the blood vessels tell us two things: the awesomeness of God’s work in man and the fact that as human beings, every one of us is a walking wonder, an amazing work of art.
Pedro Okoro
Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I am deep. therefore you can't wade in the kiddie pool and expect to find me." - Alfa"And I've never wanted to drown until now." - JmStorm
Alfa H
God released his blessings upon us for us to do what He is charging us to do.
Sunday Adelaja
You cannot act in the old way, as you got used to, as you have been programmed in your childhood, you will have to change yourself or otherwise you will not survive
Sunday Adelaja
The only way for God to take over the world is to live in human flesh by His spirit
Sunday Adelaja
God doesn't like it when we ask Him for the smallest things, dare to make your dream so big that He can conveniently fit into it and make your dream come true.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When you decide to face your life squarely, you stop moving round in circles.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t expect miracles why you have not done anything.
Sunday Adelaja
If people are connected with God, they would be safe
Sunday Adelaja
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You must ask and meditate, after which the Holy Spirit will awaken your spirit to be joined with Him
Sunday Adelaja
Harvest is a joyful time of gathering the produce of the land
Sunday Adelaja
You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You must fight to make sure that your life does not just disappear into thin air. It is a battle of not allowing those your seconds, those your minutes to just disappear into thin air.
Sunday Adelaja
Life is to be lived by being in charge of time.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to be among the few who rule the world you therefore must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by.
Sunday Adelaja
When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.
Michael Bassey Johnson
People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.
Michael Bassey Johnson
But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pain and love cannot be in the same space. You can never love anyone in pain. You cannot truly love yourself in pain. The more pain you carry in your heart, the harder it becomes to love anyone including yourself.
Kemi Sogunle
Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You must learn everything that will help you achieve your goals
Sunday Adelaja
The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live.
Michael Bassey Johnson
What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?
Ogwo David Emenike
Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.
Sunday Adelaja
It is necessary to write out in details what you need to do everyday in regards to your purpose and calling
Sunday Adelaja
The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth with it before it all melts away.
Sunday Adelaja
Christians should use their prosperity for the glory of the Kingdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
The only way to see God is to notice and observe people
Sunday Adelaja
Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count
Sunday Adelaja