Ghana Quotes

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The fall of the nation, there is no;Faithfulness, Kindness and Knowledge of God in your sacred land.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Leaders must served and not to be served as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, the Saviour.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.

~ Maya Angelou

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A committed citizens can move a country.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace and gladness in every home is a peace for the society, nation and the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must arise and build the nation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every county has its sacred culture.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die.

~ Taiye Selasi

Don’t cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

The youth. The youth of Africa. The youth of this world. Are we harnessing the potential of the youth enough? Are the young ones… giving off their best to the continent, the nation, the universe that is giving us so much? Why do we think we can only contribute something after age forty? Are we not causing wealth loss to our generation?

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Don’t under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don’t think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

The only work for success is hard work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dear Non-Black American,when you comes to the United States, you become black.No matter of your origin. Stop saying you are Liberian, Jamaican, Belizean, Nigerian,South African or Ghanaian. White America doesn't care about all that bull, that's why on the work application it doesn't give you the option to say Ghanaian or Jamaican, it says African American.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

Never forsake your motherland.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we act in clean way, we shall clear the city of any dirt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

~ Nana Ama Amamoo