Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You are received the way you present yourself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We don’t do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Condition A must be in place for action B to take place

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Never get angry against fate, she is looking for someone to crush, why put a spotlight on yourself?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are the products of fate, from beginning to end

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You are not what you want, you are what you have been made to be

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer is a thought smith, he educates men to think for themselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am what I have ever read

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You never know what you will write until you write it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana