Quotes by South African Authors - Page 4

REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!
Tony Dovale
The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and they can see no wrong in it. It justifies its former power and lust to hold on to it - and if possible, to regain it by quoting fundamentalist and radical religion and tradition and calling it 'love'. Some love. How can oppression and power over another person's life ever be 'love'?
Christina Engela
There comes a time in your life where youhave to live without the wo/man of yourdreams and have to live with the one in your reality.That is called maturity
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
It is rude to tweet while having sex. However, it is not rude to have sex while tweeting.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.
Christina Engela
Some choices will either make you perish or prosper, choose properly.
Gift Gugu Mona
To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up.She sounded as though she was having sex.Good sex.
Cherry Adair
Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.
Unarine Ramaru
The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.
Shirley Corder
Intellectual talent will give us the upper-hand in the game of life. Fortunately, we all can develop it
Julian Pencilliah
Time…Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.We do not hold on to the now, andWe do not treasure the future…We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.Until it comes no more.
Michelle Horst
An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is not the Church name that matters, but a Christ like character from every Christian that makes a difference.
Gift Gugu Mona
Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
Olive Schreiner
Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.
Irma Joubert
What must I do now?” Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. “You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home.
Masha du Toit
Weekends are an employee’s parole.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
Desmond Tutu
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules.
Shirley Corder
Don't say what you think
Thomas Matlhako
The devil sought to destroy me and discredit my testimony. But God wanted me where I would testify to others about his saving power.
Shirley Corder
Listening has certainly become a scarce skill, therefore we need ways to enhance this skill especially for the next generation.
Gugu Mona
You are privileged if you know that there is God, the only creator of Heaven and Earth because not everyone gets to understand that whist still alive.
Gugu Mona
Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever.
Unarine Ramaru
There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter.
Gift Gugu Mona
What I like most about children is that they are great advisors, yet they don't know it. And what I love about them is that they are vision bearers yet may not realize it.
Gugu Mona
Dominating others is not equality.
Christina Engela
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I've had plentiful opportunities for great things. Just didn't open my eyes.
Johan Coetzer
We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Challenges turned the eye inward to empower a renewed self for an enhanced future.
Mala Naidoo
GOD will never disregard or turn away sincere prayers from those who diligently seek Him and humbly call upon His Name.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Sometimes when a person does things to deliberately hurt you,All you need to do is shift atleast six steps back to observe the situation.If it is worth enduring, move two steps forward.If not, turn around and bless them with your back.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy.
Gugu Mona
Wait-a-minute!Reality kicked in after marking its spot `position vacant’ for the short and pleasant while. He groaned mournfully as he found himself staring at the inside of his own eyelids. The first thing that occurred to him was the terrible bone-wracking pain running up and down his spine. Pain? No, curiously enough. It was the memory of it that seemed to hurt so much. Maybe that’s what scared him. Or maybe it was the creaking of the ship around him…
Christina Engela
Greatness is unleashed when you develop faith in the power of your faith.
Phumi Ngwane
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
Some things don’t just happen, they happen because somebody decided to make them happen.
D.S Mashego
In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.
Gift Gugu Mona
It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.They are not Christians - they are Leviticans.
Christina Engela
It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE
Tony Dovale
I don't believe in dreams that don't evolve, if your potential develops all the time, how is it possible that your dreams stay the same.
Unarine Ramaru
Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.
Anthon St. Maarten
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
Speaking about work isn’t working.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana