Quotes by South African Authors - Page 30

You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy.
Gugu Mona
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that’s not how people are.
Trevor Noah
Primary consciousness is a state of being aware of things in the world – of having mental images in the present.But it is not accompanied by any sense of a person with a past and future…
James David Lewis-Williams
The joy I’m feeling is too intense to express.I don’t know what’ll happen next month, or even next week. What I know is that we both want to try.
Danila Botha
As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.
Christina Engela
Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Religion is more beautiful when it brings out the goodness in a person.
Gugu Mona
Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.
Tony Dovale
A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We can’t all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.
Nelson Mandela
When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity.
Alan de Jager
Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What I like most about children is that they are great advisors, yet they don't know it. And what I love about them is that they are vision bearers yet may not realize it.
Gugu Mona
If man was a logical creature: his last suspect—namely, his mouth—was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or, something is smelly.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self disruption.
Gugu Mona
Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The surest sign of fitness is success.
Olive Schreiner
If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
So I am not exactly sure what I imagine and what I remember. Is there a difference? Not much, if you ask me.
Harry Kalmer
In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.
Yvette Christiansë
You skin is so soft. Smells like…”She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. “Sheer, unadulterated fear?
Cherry Adair
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent
Christina Engela
The most progressive approach to life is to discuss ideas than people.
Gift Gugu Mona
IF your mindset does not include a personal life plan, your Life Success Project can NEVER have any chance of real success.
Tony Dovale
You said you love me, how could words be so empty
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Gratitude does not mean the absence of solitude, but the presence of a positive attitude in spite of.
Gift Gugu Mona
All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world.
J.M. Coetzee
In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years old can't really work out. It had something to do with rejecting the Lord, with my mother, the Judge, being surrounded by guys who came from wealthy homes, even my headless snake. While I didn't think of it as camouflage, I now know that it was, that I kept myself protected by being out in front. Too far in front to be an easy mark.
Bryce Courtenay
Marriage is holy and it's private.
Marlene Van Niekerk
Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.
Nelson Mandela
Even when you're down, there is still hope. No matter how bad things get and no matter how small a hope there is, anything is better than nothing, No matter how bad things get, they can always, ALWAYS get worse. Take my word on that.
Christina Engela
Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.
Christina Engela
Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules.
Shirley Corder
The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.
Phindiwe Nkosi
A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life
Malebo Sephodi
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.
Nelson Mandela
Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God.
Shirley Corder
You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience
Julian Pencilliah
To remain far-sighted, you need to surround yourselfwith far-sighted visionaries. You need to surround yourself with people who think like you. You needto surround yourself with people who speak the same language as you. You need to surround yourself with people who fight and refuse to give up on theirdestiny. You need to surround yourself with people whose testimonies give you reasons to press on.
D.S Mashego
Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?
Jayne Bauling
A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
Tony Dovale
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
Wilbur Smith
Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana