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Quotes by Nigerian Authors
"Miracles centered gospel makes our people to be superficial and light."
"Everyone can find the field in which he is gifted, his favorite activity and devote his time to it, instead of working for a good income, but no satisfaction."
"Smiling a smile full of things restrained."
"Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD points out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it."
"Our perception is only but a vivid imagination of our thoughts."
"Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not."
"Every blessing is a challenge to work."
"People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought-to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet-and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility."
"God does not call the "qualified" but qualifies the called."
"The world is full of problems and I bet you the problems will continue to exist but what will make you relevant to the world is when you have answers to the questions the world asks. You can only be useful when you have the answers to the questions of the world. The best way you provide solutions and answers to those challenges is through wisdom."
"You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination."
"Live on your good thoughts and they will manifest outwardly."
"It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't."
"She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles."
"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" comes during the process of implementation and dedication to the task."
"Time is wealth from which everything comes."
"If you wish to be and remain successful, invest a minimum of five to ten per cent of your income each month and your time each day on your personal growth and development."
"If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us."
"Satisfaction is the inner state of a man, it cannot be achieved externally."
"Fulfilling purpose is the major key to being productive in life."
"Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast, it amplifies the great grace of GOD over your life."
"To be fearless, you must simply fear less."
"To be fruitful and productive is to invest in time."
"God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it."
"When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere."
"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
"Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs."
"It is not enough to know that you are called, it is also necessary to know how you will accomplish your calling."
"The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her."
"How to know what God says is the time you took the decision. How to know what God says is what situation and condition was the state of your mind when you took the decision.Any decision you took when you were angry is definitely not the voice of God."
"They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not, what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know."
"We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell."
"If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their negativity in your life. There's already too much in the world. Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you and encourage you to move forward with your dreams and goals."
"Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!"
"You deserve respect and appreciation. A person who doesn't have respect for themselves will more than likely not give it to you. You have to set the standard for yourself by not allowing the insolence."
"Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty."
"If you rely on others to accomplish something in life, you'll end up accomplishing nothing."
"At that moment when you feel like giving up, take a look and search deep inside in oder to understand how far you've come. Don't give up now! Success is right around the corner."
"Greed is an excessive desire for something more than one's proper share."
"The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words."
"There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life."
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