Motivational Quotes

...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

The glory of youth is their strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A woman’s love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Men have the blood of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the blood of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped blood of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends that mankind remembers for generations or they end up as the fools of their time

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the show, but they know little or nothing about the people behind the stage―the manipulators.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...We find our greatest peace when we embrace something that gives meaning to our lives. Often, it is love for somebody or something we can give up our lives for, or somebody or something that we are sure will never betray us. That love could be for a partner, for our offspring, for a country or for a belief...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The Romans construed Jesus Chris’s crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself, he never betrayed his mission and he never corrupted the ideas that God wants us to live by. The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humaneness. There is no reason to try to kill it because it will triumph ultimately.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.

~ Abhijit Naskar

What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!

~ Abhijit Naskar

Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I believe in what you see is what you get, but I also believe in what you see is getting better!

~ Dewayne Owens

Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind,when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I believe in what you see is what you get, but I also believe in what you see is getting better.

~ Dewayne Owens

Some teach youwhat can't be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones