Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 10

The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven
Sunday Adelaja
There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.
Nnedi Okorafor
Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?It must be that they believe in their night vision. They believe themselves able to draw images up out of the dark.But black wells only yield black water.
Helen Oyeyemi
The world is “sick” with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it
Sunday Adelaja
Gratitude unlocks the door of opportunities, blessing, greatness and prosperity. Gratitude is your key to a worthy life.
Sesan Kareem
If you don’t want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!
Sunday Adelaja
When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Life really could be an enjoyable experience, if we only knew what it demands of us.
Sunday Adelaja
Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God in his infinite wisdom has deposited in everything the potential for growth and multiplication.
Sunday Adelaja
It is you who need to go, Amende. Go home; your friends are waiting for you. Pg.63
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
The skeleton of success is self-discipline
Sunday Adelaja
Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The kingdom of God is his domain and territory where God rules as king
Sunday Adelaja
At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.
Sunday Adelaja
It`s Okay to Play or Work Alone in the Information Age But If We Must Make Headway in this Transformation Age, Collaboration is the Way to Go.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
We have to lend our voice to Christ by speaking on His behalf.
Sunday Adelaja
A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to
Sunday Adelaja
If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.
Sunday Adelaja
If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.
Michael Bassey Johnson
People who know God truly change the life of their nation, and not the government.
Sunday Adelaja
True faith always leads to action.
Sunday Adelaja
We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.
Sunday Adelaja
Since when has outright denial of truth become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The promotion and prosperity of any country will only happen after when Jesus Christ comes into the land
Sunday Adelaja
Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.
Sunday Adelaja
The redemption of a country depends on the position of the church
Sunday Adelaja
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
Sunday Adelaja
You must learn to see everything around yourself as your resources, your opportunities and turn them into your weapons so that everything works in your favor and helps to achieve your goal
Sunday Adelaja
The best and only way to minister supernaturally is by being yoked to Jesus, just making yourself into His servant, walking in His ways and imitating Him. Allow Him to change you!
Sunday Adelaja
There’s a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible—just merely unlikely.
Nick Nwaogu
Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
Kemi Sogunle
If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge.
Sunday Adelaja
Some things look negative while in reality God’s glory is been manifested
Sunday Adelaja
By faith you can work miracles and perform heroic deeds
Sunday Adelaja
It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time
Sunday Adelaja
What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.
Okey Ndibe
Be careful how you live your life, millions are watching you. You may be inspiring or uninspiring many.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
To see time and life correctly , you must begin to access life as seconds, as minutes and as hours.
Sunday Adelaja
The time is coming when we have to stand before the Lord to give account of our works
Sunday Adelaja
I was born with a mission and definite purpose and I must achieve my goal and fulfill my destiny on the planet earth
Sunday Adelaja
Try this: Be What or Who You feel/think is missing from your 'world'. Then You wouldn't have to exhaust You in searching for something or someone. You'd be so indulged in finding You inside You and be so fulfilled in being You to You and everyone else. The catch: What is missing from You is definitely missing from many outside You
Ufuoma Apoki
I will, without hesitation, walk away from anything and anyone that threatens my peace or sense of self.
Izey Victoria Odiase
I ask for no forgiveness father for I have not sinned, I have only done what I needed to do to survive. A small boy once asked me if I was a bad man, if I could answer him now I would tell him, that when I was a young boy I killed a man to save my brothers life. I am not sorry for this, I am proud of this. I did not ask for the life that I was given but it was given none the less, and with it I did my best.
Mr Eko
Seek and achieve "GREATNESS" instead of mere success
Fela Durotoye
In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and hence have a higher chance of receiving innovative ideas and concepts.
Sunday Adelaja
Do not waste time for that is equal to wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
Let your pain lead you to creativity
Sunday Adelaja
No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night.
Sunday Adelaja
Expand and extend yourself to effectively fulfill purpose
Sunday Adelaja
You must realize that you have a vision on this earth
Sunday Adelaja
Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling
Sunday Adelaja
Greatness can be bought with the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Discipline is needed in our family lives.
Sunday Adelaja
No one is blessed to love more than one to the peak level except mother!
Nelson Jack
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You need to take some time off and delve into the study of the topic you are interested in
Sunday Adelaja
A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu