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Quotes by Nigerian Authors
"You cannot use another man's leg to run your race. Wives stop waiting for your husbands to do everything. For God's sake make an impact. Nobody is a threat to your development."
"Get your ego in check and half your battles in life will disappear."
"Every man has a starting capital in life and it is called worth or self-worth."
"You have to be wowed enough with your gift to wow the world with it."
"I do not wait till i am in trouble till i can call on God. I have learned to speak the way God speaks, I have learned to see things the way God sees and I have also learned to handle it the way God handles it. Christ is the daily language of my mouth and faith is my daily talk and my actions have become the language of my life."
"Five minutes after something happened might not be the best time for you to get into your Facebook and tell everybody. Men's panic does not produce God's power."
"Wealth is as a result of the value of time."
"The purpose of discovering your purpose is so that you can fulfill it."
"Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!"
"Conquer your territory through time conversion."
"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."
"When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows."
"To achieve success, you need to develop the ability to see through your mind's eye continuously."
"The more energy taken, the less energy that is left for us to implement our goals and the smaller the probability of realization of our innate potential."
"God's voice will be heard in the cave but only His visions will be revealed to you on the mountain. (A bit deep). God will always love you and will always speak to you but when you lose your perspective, you won't see his plan."
"There is nowhere in the scripture that God commanded "Thou shall be married." You don't have to be married to be happy. You don't have to be married in order to be complete. God didn't create you half, He made you whole, you can only make a good home only when you are complete than when you are half. Stop praying for your second half, pray for wholeness."
"Most of what is now "bitter" for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature."
"You can see the future only when he that knows the future reveals it to you."
"Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them."
"If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are."
"There is no one or group of people that would ever be free from bondage without making room for a change."
"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you continually engaged in educating yourself, undertaking and fulfilling your responsibility and learned never to give up regardless of your circumstances."
"Take some time and figure out what you desire most from life. Wherever your desire is, your heart will be also. Seek the opportunity to become greater than your circumstances. You may not be where you want to be. But if you continue pushing forward and striving at a steady pace, you'll get there. All things take time."
"How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not."
"Remove your blindfold-you can see bread or gold where others see stone."
"Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone."
"The size of a plane does not change the weather but it will get you above it. The size of your faith may not change your situation but it will get you over it."
"If you despise increase, you are a strange personality in the society."
"The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal."
"Attitude is a game changer. It either makes you or breaks you."
"Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically."
"Staying true to your dream by using your mental, emotional and physical strength is discipline in action. You express it through focus, grit, self-control, persistence, perseverance, and willpower."
"Have you ever make out time to ask God if there is anything or anybody you need to drop in your life? Are you still holding on to offences? When is the right time to drop it?I am sure once you make this attempt He will show you.I declare that God is going to set some captives free."
"You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They'll believe all kinds of shit about Africa."
"It is not what you know that determines the quality of your life, it is what you do that decides your experiences."
"In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a dried leaf. She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in secondary school, and always thought the American twang inchoate; she should not have cowered and shrunk, but she did. And in the following weeks, as autumn's coolness descended, she began to practice an American accent."
"The bigger your problems, the bigger the blessings God is about to pour out upon you."
"Live in such a way that you would be certain that you have derived maximum from life."
"Select carefully and continuously review your circle of influence, and be unapologetic about who you exclude."
"Search constantly for people, places, things, pictures, sounds, or scents that inspire you. Your most important responsibility is to keep yourself inspired always."
"The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious."
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