Inspirational Quotes

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

At what point is normal natural?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The wise shall learn.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves, but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging, thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups.

~ Janvier Chando

The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable of giving unity, prosperity, security, peace and a sense of worthiness to his people. Such a figure gets elevated to the status of a revered hero with the human touch if he imparts a sense of oneness on a multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-religious group; especially a diverse people who have been fighting one another for years and centuries...

~ Janvier Chando

My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.

~ Janvier Chando

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

~ Janvier Chando

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

~ Janvier Chando

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is not something we often find out, but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

~ Janvier Chando

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

When you are wise, peace shall follow.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We must cultivate our heads. But nurture our hearts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The world of books is the wealth of being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We seek excellence before we seek understanding, wisdom before we gain knowledge, success before we understand hardwork; for this reason we need great teachers and leaders.

~ Wayne Chirisa

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

~ Fredrik Backman

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando