Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.
There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books.
When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.
Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.
Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.
Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.
Good and quiet do not connote weakness.
Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity.
Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.
Waiting is a form of passive persistence.
There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory.
A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.
I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.
Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state.
When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savo...
The courage of one can change the course of all.
There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.
A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.