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"It is against natural law
for any two persons to do everything exactly the
same way. Nobody like you has ever been created,
nobody like you is in existence and nobody like
you will ever be created. So why should you expect
anybody to behave exactly like you?" (Chiedu
Victor Ebube [Ife Onye Cho K'ofu]) |
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"We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"
(Aristotle) |
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"Our deepest fear is that
we are not inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure" (Nelson Mandela) |
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"The separation of management
from leadership is dangerous. Just as management
without leadership encourages an uninspired style,
which deadens activities, leadership without management
encourages a disconnected style, which promotes
hubris" (Henry Mintzberg) |
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Grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change, courage to change the
things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
(Reihard Niebuhr) |
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"Feelings of worth can flourish
only in an atmosphere where individual differences
are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication
is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere
that is found in a nurturing family" (Virginia
Satir) |
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"The tragedy in life does
not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies
in having no goal to reach. It is not a calamity
to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity
not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable
to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have
no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to
reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no
stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is
sin" (Benjamin Mays) |
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"Belief in witches and all
such phenomena is a product of deep-seated fear,
backwardness, illiteracy of the mind and soul, gullibility,
self-loathe and an inability or refusal to take
responsibility for ones stupidity, failings and
shortcomings. Sadly, even some of the most educated
amongst us believe in such nonsense" (Sabella
Abidde) |
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Cities like Lagos, Port Harcourt
and Kaduna are replete with open gutters and cesspools.
We don’t wonder about the implications of living
within close proximity of or of selling cooked and
raw food near or around such contaminants. Furthermore,
food vendors sell expired and decayed food. The
aforementioned are some of the source of our illness.
Most motor vehicles operators do not have the license
to handle vehicles -- most of which are not road-worthy,
anyway. In these and many cases, we blame the witches
when fatal accidents happen. And how many Nigerians
have access to good medical care? We die like flies
and like chickens -- by our own hands and doings
-- and then blame the witches. (Sabella Abidde) |
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If language is not correct, then
what is said is not what is meant; if what is said
is not what is meant, then what must be done remains
undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will
deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people
will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there
must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters
above everything" |
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"Your life and my life flow
into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless
there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there
can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me."
We cannot afford to be all talk or sit on the fence
when our people are downtrodden and in a hopeless
condition. (Buechner) |
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I cannot now remember who it was
who said, "Some people come into our lives
and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing
whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky
more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives
for awhile."
"If we deny love that is given
to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear
pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our
loss greater" (Author Unknown) |
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"Every man is his own ancestor,
and every man is his own heir. He devises his own
future, and he inherits his own past die" (Frederick
H Hedge) |
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"Have the courage to live.
Anyone can" (Robert Cody) |
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Death should not stop a fight
where there is a third person present (An Ijaw saying) |
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He who pays the piper dictates
the tune (An Ijaw saying) |
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"Criticism is good for a
leader or organisation. Some are criticising out
of ignorance, some out of the fact that they want
things to be better. Some are criticising out of
malice. They are all welcome as far as I am concerned.
Because critics make a leader to stand on his toes
because you do not take things for granted."
"I have said that there are some Nigerians
that are professional agitators. They are important
in life and I said that if I go to a country and
do not find people like that, I wonder if I would
want to stay in that country. And if I go into a
country and find too many of them, I wonder if I
would also want to stay in that country. A few of
them are necessary," (President Olusegun Obasanjo
at the Thanksgiving Church Service 28-May-07' marking
end of his administration) |
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"No man is an island entirely
of itself; every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main" (John Donne) |
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"Life is ours to live, but not
to waste, and ... the greatest rewards are found
in the commitments we make with our whole hearts
- to the people we love and to the causes that earn
our sacrifices" (George Bush) |
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"I have opinions of my own; strong
opinions ... but I don't always agree with them"
(George Bush) |
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"It is common sense to take a
method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly
and try another. But above all, try something" (Franklin
D. Roosevelt) |
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"Success is the ability to go
from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm"
(Sir Winston Churchill) |
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty
in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty" (Sir Winston Churchill) |
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"The man who views the world at
50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years
of his life" (Muhammad Ali) |
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"I do not fear computers. I fear
the lack of them" (Isaac Asimov) |
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"Lack of money is the root
of all evil" (George Bernard Shaw) |
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"Critism comes easier than craftsmanship" |
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"It is the mark of an educated
mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting
it" (Aristotle) |
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"Always get married in the morning.
That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted
a whole day" (Mickey Rooney) |
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"Its not these well-fed long-haired
men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking
ones" (Julius Caesar) |
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It's just a job. Grass grows,
birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people
up (Muhammad Ali) |
