Wisdom Quotes

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah, said, Money matters is only a matter of fancy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A man’s true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul

~ 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

Lies and partial truths complicate life.

~ 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

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.

~ 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

...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them stronger.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality

~ 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

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

There's nothing you can do about the past. You're wrong. I can learn from it... Tariq dug his heels into his stallion's flanks, and the horse shot forward, painting a dark smudge across the sand. And I can make sure it never happens again!

~ Renee Ahdieh

One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return.

~ Marcella Purnama

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.

~ Marcella Purnama

Your inner voice is your signboard, follow it

~ Anamika Mishra

The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.

~ Angela Vallely

When good things are so low that no one wants them, I buy them and lay them away in the safe; when owing to some new development, they go up and my shares are so needed that men will pay well for them, I am ready to sell.

~ Hetty Green

Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.

~ Abhijit Naskar