Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu Quotes

Do not be angry with the dormant friends you have on Facebook and on social media who do not LIKE or comment on your statuses and pictures, and do not congratulate you on your birthday. See them just as the regular passengers you meet every morning on the train and bus on your way to work, and with whom you do not exchange greetings ― the only thing you share being just passengers on board the same train and bus.

Spring is the light at the end of the tunnel we know as winter.

Storms are good winds that blow away the bad people around you.

If they remain with you during a storm, remain with them after the storm. Fake people are among the trash that storms usually carry with them.

Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water : they don't mix.

Poor souls! They always proffer war because that’s all they have. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Faith. Hope. Dream. These are energy boosters man needs as he desperately races through life.

Friends are like websites. There are some you visit more than the others.

The lies politicians tell during peacetime are enough to spark off wars. And the lies they tell during wars are enough to spark off Armageddon.

Men and women —they frighten each other terribly, yet cannot do without each other's horrors.

One special gift that is often overlooked is the spirit of perseverance.

Art is a medley of truths and silly things. A tapestry of useful sins.

Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.

When you’re depressed, you’re drunk with worries. Don’t drive depressed.

If they remain with you during a storm, remain with them after the storm.

Monday is a marathon. Tuesday is a breather. The rest of the week is pay-as-you-go.

Every other season is a romance. Summer is a party.

If other seasons were to be rooms of a mansion, summer would surely be the party hall.

Summer throws light on all things hidden though the seasons.

For the people of any nation, the death of their dictator is like the end of a long and brutal war. They breathe down in great relief.

Which of these two fake friends do we manage — the one who rejoices silently when trouble comes to us or the one who refuses to rejoice with us when good things come to us?

Sunday is the only day with a silent melody.

One of the best places to be on earth is among happy people.

The scientific name for the fear of God is Conscience.

It’s only the envious that sit down while giving others a standing ovation.

In life, those who find faults will always, by far, outnumber those who find remedies.

A Veteran is the one who takes up arms to save you before the ones who take up arms to kill you can succeed.

Never regard sex as big deal. See it as that little, fascinating empire which all persons, big and small, rich and poor, stoop low to conquer.

Your footprints – you leave them on the sands of time. Your fingerprints – you leave them with the police.

As tall as Mount Everest. As quiet as a lamb. As unending as power in the hands of the African leader.

If you don’t mind your business, who will mind it for you?

The poor and the rich both worry. The poor, when he has nothing to eat. The rich, when he gets sick from what he has eaten.

Those eyes are diseased that see race in everything.

Beauty is an asset, no doubt. A youthful asset only, for old age and beauty have no diplomatic ties.

If you desire so much to learn something useful in life, pray not to encounter an impatient teacher.

The high point of loneliness is when you begin to notice and give attention to your own shadow.

If you must rob a poor man, then rob him of his poverty.

The slave master who gives his slave his freedom has not given him anything new. He has just given him back what he took from him.

Marriage produces two slaves : the male slave and the female slave, both of whom volunteered their freedom to remain slaves until granted freedom by either death or divorce.

A broken promise is as painful as justice denied.

The human heart is a piece of great mystery. It has no eyes, yet it sees. It has no mouth, yet it speaks. It has no brain, yet it’s the most cunning thing God ever made.

Depression is that state of mind when you're called upon to give an account of your death while you're still alive.

Every man has an ordinary madness in him. Every mad man has an extra-ordinary madness in him.

Eiffel Tower is more than a landmark; she’s Paris’s missing rib.

The problem with men is that they see before believing. The problem with women is that they believe before seeing. The problem with children is that in seeing they believe; in believing they see.

True leaders are the ones who turn their backs from time to time to see that no one among those they are leading is left behind. In the case of Africa, however, the leaders turn their backs from time to time, like greedy treasury looters, to see that nothing they have looted is left behind.

Faith is believing that the gun pointed at you may not have bullets, and even when it has, will not hit you when fired, and even when they hit you, will not kill you, and even when they kill you, you will not die, and even when you die, you do not lose your life, and even when you lose it, faith helps you regain it.

Time changes with life and life changes with time.

The heart guides better than the eyes.

When hard times won’t quit, just say to them : LEAVE and let live.

A bad idea is not as bad as a good one that exists just as an idea.

Happiness is what you share. Joy is what you possess.

Happiness is more expressive than Joy. Happiness is external. Joy is internal. Happiness is surface wiring. Joy is conduit. Happiness flirts. Joy is faithful. Both are like the two lobes of our brains. The one you make use of while making money is not the one you make use of while spending it. And life goes on.

Crush, infatuation, love . . . these are classified like drinks : low percentage of alcohol, highly alcoholic, very intoxicating.

Romantic heartbreak is a serious non-contagious disease, requiring no pills or syrups, but curable only by a complete dose of Time.

Laughter forced is as uncomfortable as tears suppressed.

If you’re passing through pain, endure it. If you’re passing through pleasure, enjoy it. Both are like night and day, which we all MUST pass through.

In selling and buying of ideas, money rarely counts.

The man who sees today as he saw yesterday, has no vision for tomorrow. Steer clear of him.

We have ten fingers on both hands. Five of them we use to count our blessings. The other five we use to count our disappointments. Like a chain, blessings and disappointments are interlinked.

Finding a good friend is a downright task. Keeping him is an uphill task. Losing him is a mournful task.

True kindness is when you show people in front the kindness people behind never showed you.

Whenever you’re going away from a place you do not like, leave nothing behind – not even your footprints.

On a good day, give love. On a bad day, pray to receive love. It’s the greatest gift you can give and receive. When you give or receive it, you lack nothing, but become richer.

If you want your spouse or lover to stick to you, then lick them like the postage stamp.

The heart is responsible for our wrinkles, not our faces.

The inferiority of man should not be judged by the poor quality of his material possessions, but by the poor quality of his ideological possessions.

A man’s penis and a snake share some similarities : both are long; both are flexible; both change in shape and in size when roused; both stretch longer and become firmer when in action; both spit out liquid (the former spits out urine and sperm, the latter spits out venom); both cannot do without holes (the former goes into a hole for maximum pleasure, the latter for safety); both recoil after sufficiently striking their targets.

Men and women are like mountains and mountain climbers. Women are like high mountains. Men are like the climbers. When men have not ascended them, they dream of ascending them. When they have ascended them, they climb down with the determination either to ascend again or never again to ascend. . . depending on their experience while on top them. If they don’t buy your idea, stop selling it to them.

Sometimes our prayers are not answered because we pray more with our mouths than with our hearts.

If life were all questions and no answers, it would be a world of sickness without cure. If the other way round, it would be a world of cure with no sickness. Next to this is the meaninglessness of life, which is palpable to those that read meaning into everything meaningless.

If you want the calories to walk out, then workout.

Happiness is a thing of the heart. Pleasure is a thing of the brain. Both are like twins fathered by two different men.

Dreams are fantasies of the night. Visions are realities of the night.

When you’re nobody, expect nobody. When you become somebody, expect everybody.

Love him that loves you. Respect him that inspires you. Follow him that leads well. Emulate him that is Godly. Encourage him that has vision. Build him that has potential. Defend him that is oppressed. Educate him that is narrow-minded. . . .And life goes on. Good luck to us all.

When you have contentment you lack nothing. When you lack contentment you have nothing.

When money cannot solve problems, the rich view life with the eyes of the poor.

Marriage makes you old with agility. Single life makes you young with senility. Both situations hardly reflect your actual age.

If you’re not mindful of what goes into your mouth, then be mindful of what comes out of it.

The eyes are responsible for the sins of the heart.

If you have sight but have no vision, you’re as good as blind. Vision takes you where sight alone cannot.

For man, death is inevitable. If he does not die because he’s too old to carry on with life, he dies because he’s too young for life to find him relevant.

What you want to be, you’ll surely be. You only need to swallow pills of faith and inject into your system, a recommended dose of hard work.

Never lend what you borrowed.

Your actions earn you more respect than your social status and age put together.

A poor man's good health is his wealth.

Marriages fail because they are either taken too seriously or taken for granted. They should be taken rather like coffee – not too cold and not too hot. If too bitter, should be sweetened a little with sugar. If too dark, should be lightened a little with milk.

You don't need to be literate in order to read the human mind.

Respect is one thing both the rich and the poor must work real hard to possess, since it’s not bought but earned.

If you want to scare your enemies make more friends. If you want to scare your friends, make more enemies.

Sex is neither art nor science. That’s why it’s not taught in school. And that’s why people find it difficult to talk about it. It is simply a gift God gave us with his left hand.

Enter hard times. Exeunt fake friends.

In the beginning, God made Nigeria a place to live. In the end, her leaders turned her into a hell of a place to live.

Growing old and growing up are like the front and back covers of a book; they’re two different things.

A great family consists of a father who is a hard nut to crack, a mother who is a hard nut to chew and children who are hard nuts to swallow.

If you buy stolen goods, you’re not a thief. But you’re like the tiger that is not a cat but belongs to the cat family.

The tailor who has just had his cut fingers stitched by the surgeon has gone back to his workshop with the surgeon’s torn lab coat to stitch it. Is that strange? Oh, no! Both men are experts on stitching.

The man with sight, since he sees everything, sees the fullness of life. The blind man, since he sees nothing, sees the emptiness of life. Each man is right in his own eyes.

Africa has sit-tight problems because she has sit-tight leaders.