Quotes by South African Authors - Page 27

When in trouble, run to God. When in pain, dwell in His presence. When you don't know what to say or do, ask God and for every moment praise God. He is always by your side!
Gift Gugu Mona
God has been FAITHFUL to me, that why I have FAITH in Him.
Gift Gugu Mona
Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The presentation scene itself we skip. It is not a good idea to interrupt the narrative too often, since storytelling works by lulling the reader or listener into a dreamlike state in which the time and space of the real world fade away, superseded by the time and space of the fiction. Breaking into the dream draws attention to the constructedness of the story, and plays havoc with the realist illusion. However, unless certain scenes are skipped over we will be here all afternoon. The skips are not part of the text, they are part of the performance.
J.M. Coetzee
Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.
Tony Dovale
Be thankful for every mountain, because it's the mountain top that will give you best view of the world.
Gugu Mona
It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Running away from your purpose, not only disadvantages other people; it also compromises God’s greater purpose.
D.S Mashego
In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.
Nelson Mandela
The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.
Damon Galgut
Integrity is the best attire to put on because the without integrity one cannot conceal his nakedness.
Gugu Mona
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
Sidney Brenner
That everything you want to happen, will happen, if you decide you want it enough. That every time you think a sad thought, you can think a happy one instead.That you control that completely.That the people who make you laugh are more beautiful than beautiful people. That you laugh more than you cry. That crying is good for you. That the people you hate wish you would stop and you do too.That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.That the most embarrassing, awkward moments of your life are only remembered by you and no one else
Iain S. Thomas
Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life.
Unarine Ramaru
To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. You will face more hate and ridicule and ostracism than you can even begin to fathom. People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world. But when they see you as a fellow tribe member attempting to disavow the tribe, that is something they will never forgive. That is what happened to me in Eden Park.
Trevor Noah
Good listeners, I don’t need to tell you that now more than ever, we’re living in Godless times. We’re living in a time when the Bible is shunned in our schools in favour of scientific evolutionary lies, where many are expelling God from their hearts, where sodomites and baby murderers and heathens and Islamofascists have more rights in our country than good Christian men and women. Where Sodom and Gomorrah cast a pall over every aspect of our daily lives, and our world leaders are trying with all their might to construct the culture of globalisation favoured by the Antichrist.
Sarah Lotz
Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.
Tony Dovale
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most success oriented mindsets miss out on people becoming more valuable.
Tony Dovale
In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?
Malebo Sephodi
There is an economy in your mindThere is an economy in your mind!
Nicky Verd
Mechanically I carried on across the Irish Sea, noticing with a jaundiced eye that it had suddenly lost the sinister threat of no-man's-land and was transformed into a placid highway where ferry-steamers would soon chug peacefully over the unmarked graves of gallant seamen.
Jackie Moggridge
Success is a place in time, Don't be late
Julian Pencilliah
What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.
Unarine Ramaru
Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As truly as God by His power oncecreated, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.
Andrew Murray
It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected".
William Plomer
Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas
Tony Dovale
The word of God is more powerful when put into action than when only spoken.
Gift Gugu Mona
They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.
Christina Engela
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.
Nelson Mandela
you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture.
Lauren Beukes
To have wisdom whilst young, to have strength whilst old, therein lies the secret to life on earth
Paddick Van Zyl
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be the man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have , it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.
Trevor Noah
Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.
Judy Croome
Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.
Christina Engela
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
Nelson Mandela
Never wish for someone else's life because you never know if they also wish yours was theirs.
Gugu Mona
t— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.—tWho knows it better?—tYet you believe?tKumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret. Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering. There is my wife, and you, my friend, and these people who welcomed me, and the child who is so eager to be with us here in Ndotsheni – so in my suffering I can believe.— I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.Kumalo looked at his friend with joy. You are a preacher, he said.
Alan Paton
Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela
What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.
Tarryn Fisher
Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.
Savo Heleta
The beauty that is in the results of your hard work, is not worth any compromise or delay
Unarine Ramaru
Peace is better than war because conflict resolutions can be made without a wastage of life and resources.
Gugu Mona
A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A goal shouldn't be limited to a title.
Unarine Ramaru
How anyone can vote to support any form of fascism, knowing history, is beyond me - which leads me to draw the conclusion that either the people who voted to support it don't know what they are doing - or that they know exactly what they are doing.
Christina Engela
Passion Has No Paperwork
Ellis Mnyandu
If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Avoid fear because it will blind you from seeing God’s purpose about your life and limit your potential.
Gift Gugu Mona
Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.
Tony Dovale
Loving Sarah was like reading a particularly good book. That pressing and overwhelming need to just devour it as fast as possible is matched only by the need to savour it slowly and completely, lest all come to an end too soon. The all-consuming emotions are so many and varied that it is almost impossible to pick out one for a few minutes attention. They mainly stay jumbled and unattended, and for the most part not entirely understood or satisfied. But then, maybe it is in the understanding of our love for someone that the love itself disappears altogether. If so, then I don't want to understand, and I remain content to simply experience her. Somehow, the more I learn about Sarah, the better I understand myself.And the more I fall in love.
Nadine Rose Larter
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Christina Engela
The weakness of one man is the strength of another, hence we all are different for a reason.
Gift Gugu Mona