A Ghanaian author and motivational voice, Ernest Agyemang Yeboah explores themes of purpose, mental wellness, and personal empowerment through his books, including Distinctive Footprints of Life, Toxic in the Mind, and The Untapped Wonderer in You. Drawing from a blend of philosophical insight and practical reflections, Yeboah's writing encourages readers to embrace deeper awareness, challenge limiting beliefs, and take courageous action. His words often center on the power of thought, risk?taking, and emotional resilience, marking him as a notable rising figure in Ghana's self?help literary scene.
"It is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds."
"Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life."
"Everybody can do something. Anyone can do anything, but, it takes an understanding of real freedom to know do's and don'ts and the essence of do's and don'ts'. Nobility knows rules, nobility understands rules, and nobility recognizes the real reasons of staying within the border lines of rules that uphold dignity as a sacred responsibility. Nobility least do things anyhow, anywhere and anytime."
"Admire your offenders for they are never your offenders. They are only teachers in the class of forgiveness, tolerance and patience. How can you learn how to forgive when you have not been offended? How can you learn how to forgive seventy seven times seven when people have not offended you seventy seven times? Smile if you get offended, there is a lessons to learn!"
"If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see."
"Idleness never always means not doing anything at all, for everybody does something each moment of time! It is however also wasting our true, relevant and purposeful time on less purposeful things such that in the end, we only come to a remembrance of not just the true purposeful time we could have used, but also the true and real life we could have lived to leave distinctive footprints with the time we had!"
"Do you want to do something great? Find something that is distinctively smaller! Do you want to do something extraordinary? Do something ordinary in a distinctive way! Do you want to espouse an unpopular cause? Find the neglected solution to the general problem. Do you want to be distinctively popular? Think of what is distinctively unpopular."
"If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!"
"After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!"
"If you really know how great a competition it is to enter into the Kingdom of God is, you would have increased your competitive power greatly in your pursuit for the Kingdom of God."
"If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing!"
"Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!"
"It takes just one day to remember one day! Mind today, for one day, you shall remember one day."
"Each day you wake up, you wake up with billions around the world but when the sun sets, not all retire. It is a joyful privilege to note that you are a unique person among billions of people who wake up each day to walk on the surface of the earth. It is a noble responsibility to note that you have to use this privilege effectively."
"If God is not the reason, I have no reason! If Jesus Christ is not my friend, I have no friend!"
"You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the door step for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don't forget! mind your mind!"
"Real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks better than words."
"A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more you entertain your unhappiness."
"Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenacity don't just give up. When you are at the battlefield, you do all things with a different energy!"
"Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though they got to a certain comfortable destination!"
"When you always stay positive, you least worry yourself over anything at all! You only take lessons from negative moments of life, and people who seek to change your positive nature to negative! Don't ever allow your life to be negative just because of people, things and negative occurrences in life, not even for a brief moment! You are you! You are a positive person; stay positive and be happy!"
"If you do not meet inspiring obstacles and failure, cry; you do not have the great path to explore, grow and mature to be great."
"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
"Challenges are everywhere. Awake! challenge and defeat the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way and be not be defeated by the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way."
"I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the degree of insanity, there is always a regard for the value and essence of life."
"Even if you can't dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can't sing, you can make some noise."
"Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game."
"When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens."
"All good and great hunters once upon a time shot wrongly, missed a good prey, went home tired and weary without a prey and they also met the most heart breaking moments, but regardless their slips and challenges, their biggest glory always came from the wildest animals they could kill with their mere weapons!"
"The matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity."
"There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ideas that come to us each moment of time. There are so many things we conceive each day which give birth to things that define who we are and how we are living life. Everybody knows something and everybody thinks about something! A true value of our lives is not just in what we conceive each moment of time, but also in how we nurture and give life to what we conceive, against all odds, to give birth to something that defines who we are and who we become in the end!"
"Don't leave your life behind as you live life! You have a true life to live! Live life and learn life! Face life and challenge life! Challenge life and win life! Win life and understand life! Life is a challenge and we are here to challenge and win life! Not until you wake up to be a master of your life, you shall always keep sleeping on your own destiny! All good and great hunters once upon a time shot wrongly, missed a good prey, went home tired and weary without a prey, and they met the most heartbreaking moments, but regardless of their slips and all that they endured, their biggest glory always came from the wild animals they could kill with their mere weapons!"
"One day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonder. A story that will give you another story. One day I will tell you a story. A story about life. A story about my life. One day I will tell you a story!"
"There is no better place as better as where God has placed you, be it good or bad, for His better reasons. Just keep calm and be humble and diligent enough to learn the better and real reasons that shall take and place you at the best place He wants to place you! If you don't understand the lessons, ask Him for the reasons. If He answers you fine, if not, just keep going and keep learning the lessons. You shall definitely get a good understanding in the end!"