Quotes by South African Authors - Page 37

Words have an immeasurable impact, they can either build or destroy so be careful of your words.
Gift Gugu Mona
Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.
Unarine Ramaru
Being focused in life is not only knowing what you want, but also how and why.
Unarine Ramaru
A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More than weapons, we need a leader.
Wilbur Smith
Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a while the organism will repair itself, and I, the ghost within it, will be my old self again. But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float toward his end.
J.M. Coetzee
The foundation of all long-term success lies in building a Resilient and Growth oriented MINDSET.
Tony Dovale
Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world around us.
Christina Engela
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A problem is nothing more than a solution outstanding.
Phumi Ngwane
You know you walk in the light when the enemy keeps reminding you of your past mistakes, because the enemy's role is to derail into darkness.
Gift Gugu Mona
Moral writing is boring.
Johan Van Wyk
Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.
Yvette Christiansë
With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Peace is significant for any country that seeks prosperity, because it is easier to uplift the economy in a peaceful environment.
Gugu Mona
The reason why we need love more than street lights is because love illuminates the world, no matter the time of day. Where there is no love, even with street lights on, the world would still be lost in the darkness of hatred.
Gift Gugu Mona
I remember I’ve never shared tears with someone that longedfor (me) and loved me; I didn’t know how to be compassionate.”(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)
Chimnese Davids
Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fireWoman of the world caught up in your black machinationsI was a woman who cried alone at night, who gave it all away when she saw the good heart of the man insideWoman caught standing up; her open parts are broken -
Abigail George
Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.
Laurens van der Post
Come now, Pendragon Princess. You didn’t get dressed up to die, we both know that.
Monique Snyman
God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me.
Shirley Corder
There is difference when someone says 'Love You' and when they 'I Love You'. The word 'I' saws the worthiness and devotion in what you are saying.
Unarine Ramaru
Understand Fundamental & Techical Analysis. Only then will you be Successful in Investing
David Sikhosana
Some want more than they need, and others think they need more than they want. That's why we have so many greedy people who can't share with the poor.
Gift Gugu Mona
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
Andrew Murray
Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard Ba’athists loyal to Saddam Hussein were raging all over the city.
Lawrence Anthony
This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.
Phindiwe Nkosi
An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream—in that particular month.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.
Anthon St. Maarten
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela
There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court—and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.
Mark Gevisser
Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
Desmond Tutu
Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I look back I realize she raised me like a white kid - not white culturally, but in the sense of believing that the world was my oyster, that I should speak up for myself, that my ideas and thoughts and decisions mattered.
Trevor Noah
Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.
Unarine Ramaru
The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
Desmond Tutu
Honesty defines self respect.
Unarine Ramaru
Fear is an abortion of good thoughts
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Taking time to look back, is a foundation on course to build a stable future.
Unarine Ramaru
Some girls feel they are like boys, They play rough, they like a lot of noise.
Christina Engela
But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.
Iain Thomas
Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him.
Christina Engela
Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.
Lauren Beukes
Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.
Andrew Murray
Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?
J.M. Coetzee
Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems possible, Faith makes it possible.
Gift Gugu Mona
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never settle for less. Others may see it as lacking or not having. But Others also see it as having standards
David Sikhosana
Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Faeces by any other name would smell as gross
Mokokoma Mokhonoana