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Quotes by South African Authors - Page 3

If you have legs that work, walk in the right direction. If you have an audible voice, say constructive words. If you have functional eyes, see great things. If you are in a position of power, use it productively and if you have a sound mind, think exceptionally; for such is not a given, but grace.
Gift Gugu Mona
Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingSaid I was your moon and you were the starsYou're so deceivingI trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingThe wound is deep Blood is seeping
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once.
Irma Joubert
A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day.
J.M. Coetzee
Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I will always appreciate those who made me go through rough times because without those, I wouldn't have the wisdom and power that lies within me now.
Gift Gugu Mona
People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.
Unarine Ramaru
Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.
Unarine Ramaru
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
Nadine Gordimer
Chomie' is South African homosexual men’s unofficial name.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rhythm, repetition, making patterns--these are not only important devices for shaping the strange and abstract instrument/object we call a poem or a story, but they are craved as well because of our primordial need for reassurance, the sense of security we get from moving over the known. A mystery doesn't lose power in revisiting. Writing is not just to know, it is also to console. We need to be reminded that we are part of the obscure rhythm of birth and decade. It is the humming that matters.
Breyten Breytenbach
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way.
Julian Short
A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.
Tony Dovale
Dream × Vision × Time(sacrifices) × Work(persistence) = SuccessIf you miss any of them, remember any sum/number multiplied by zero is = 0Like·Comment·Share
Unarine Ramaru
To create extraordinary results, you must first have or ReThink an extraordinary Mindset to start.
Tony Dovale
Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.
James David Lewis-Williams
We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never wish for someone else's life because you never know if they also wish yours was theirs.
Gugu Mona
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.
André Brink
I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ride you so hard and give you so much shit is because I love you. Everything I have ever done I've done from a place of love. If I don't punish you, the world will punish you even worse. The world doesn't love you. If the police get you, the police don't love you. When I beat you, I'm trying to save you. When they beat you, they're trying to kill you.
Trevor Noah
To have wisdom whilst young, to have strength whilst old, therein lies the secret to life on earth
Paddick Van Zyl
I hate reading poems—school made me hate them. I’d spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I’d be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I’d realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way.
Danielle Esplin
Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~
Michelle Horst
To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
They were your friends?""Yes, they were my friends.""And they will leave you to suffer alone?""Now I see it.""And until this, were they friends you could trust?""I could trust them.""I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law?Tell me, were they such friends?And now they leave you alone?Did you not see it before?""I saw it.
Alan Paton
Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Like the shadow of deathThe residue of heartbreakAlways lingers in the backgroundWith its darkness threatening to consume you
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.
Unarine Ramaru
Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.
Christina Engela
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
Athol Fugard
Great leaders think beyond yesterday, deal with the issues of today and focus on addressing the problems of tomorrow.
Gift Gugu Mona
If our lives are pleasing to Allah, and our goals are things which He approves then we can expect His Divine Assistance in accomplishing them, which includes Barakah in our time.
Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.
Unarine Ramaru
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nelson Mandela
Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.
Marlene Van Niekerk
I am happy to see you, Maso
Damon Galgut
Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!
Tony Dovale
For long-term true success we mush rethink and change our mindset from only valuing "happiness" to include Well-being as the foundation.
Tony Dovale
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes I'm tired simply means I need something new.
Phumi Ngwane
People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
Lauren Beukes
The biggest opportunity one can get in life, it is a chance to make friends!
Unarine Ramaru
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some girls feel they are like boys, They play rough, they like a lot of noise.
Christina Engela
This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page. What do they gain? They gain this, simply nothing. Poets must assemble and present their work accordingly to how they see fit and should be careful of advice from other writers and editors. Sometimes there can be too much going on in the words that are meant to be given with the best of intentions.
Abigail George
Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those who say that money can’t buy one love make it sound as if love can buy one money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Overrated is order.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.
Anthon St. Maarten
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