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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sunday is the only day with a silent melody.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A broken promise is as painful as justice denied.

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.

Those eyes are diseased that see race in everything.

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

The scientific name for the fear of God is Conscience.

We all own a home by the sea. It’s called the beach.

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

London is an old city that’s so young at heart.

London is a city that lives inside those who live inside it.

Of all the days of the week, God must surely love Friday the most. It’s the day everyone — believer and non-believer — remembers to thank him the most.

Letting go is moving on.

Among the unhappiest and most miserable people on earth are those, for reasons best known to them alone, pretend to be happy when indeed they are not.

Imagine if there was no October! The year would have lost its golden era.

I recommend London like an interesting movie. There’s so much to see and learn in it. Anyone who sees it — even once in their lifetime — would thank me more than once in their lifetime.

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.

O Coronavirus, I wash my hands off you!

The world is like a musical band, with all manner of people playing all manner of instruments. Sometimes there's melody, and sometimes there's cacophony.

Politics is the anus of the society, which should be touched by the left hand only because it is filthy.

Men are fascinated by women. Women are fascinated by what they imagine fascinates men about them.

Money is certainly not everything. Money is quite like an umbrella which may shield you a little from the rain, but not from the cold that comes with it.

Idleness and laziness are two entirely different things. The former revolts against unemployment. The latter is revolted against by employment.

There are two kinds of money : the one you make without expecting it, and the one you expect without making it.

Coronavirus lockdown is like forcing siesta on very active children on a fun day.

Some people, even when their brand new shoes pinch like Hell because they're tight, wear them just to show off. Many marriages are that way; they're tight and pinch worse than Hell, but those in them make you believe they taste like Heaven.

Pride is like spittle —you can spit it out or swallow it. It is like excessive body weight — you can shed it. Do not treat it like body height which you have no power over. Pride sets people back more than it moves them forward.

There’s definitely something wrong with the world that has seven billion people and yet has so many people who complain of loneliness.

A writer’s block is long dark period between when a truly gifted writer has not written a bestseller after he has.

Reading a work of fiction that is written in the first-person is as pleasurable as sitting down to listen to the lengthy, but interesting confessions of another.

Whenever people have asked me to list the books that I have read which have given me the greatest pleasure, I have always failed to do that. The answer I give them is this: I have never in my life fully enjoyed the pleasure of reading. There was a time I had plenty of time to read but had little material available. The next time was when I had loads of material to read but had little time available.

Greatness is not like humans, animals and plants that reproduce their own kind. Greatness does not sire greatness. Not at all! Most great men’s children are nothing to write home about.

Health is wealth. The wealth health gives is the kind you do not lose your sleep over.

God is clever. He knows too well that if he grants us all our heart desires, we’ll stop praying.

How best do you define Nigeria? A very rich country with very poor leaders.

I’ve always been unable to see Michael Jordan as a hero. What he achieved in basketball paints him in hues of a superhero. He flew like an angel, landed like a meteor and scored points like a flaming arrow hitting its target. For a flying angel, he was a Michael. For an easy flow with the ball, he was a River Jordan.

Feel free to argue with the man with a gun. Only make sure there are no bullets in it.

When we cannot find the good things that we’re looking for, let the good things that are looking for us find us.

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

History is the study of past events, the disasters of the outrageous present and the nuclear apprehension of the next available future.

Those who love to kill hate to die.

The words of silence are uncountable — unlike those of speech. And that’s why silence is more powerful.

Had Garnacho’s magnificent goal against Everton been scored on home ground, the stadium would have exploded. Rather Goodison Park, the venue of the match, received the goal with graveyard silence. In the eyes of haters the diamond in your hand looks like the ordinary stone.

Had Garnacho’s magnificent goal against Everton been scored on home ground, the stadium would have exploded. Rather, Goodison Park, the venue of the match, received the goal with graveyard silence. In the eyes of haters the diamond in your hand looks like the ordinary stone.

Bosses are common. Leaders are like true love.

Hard work is a route which you must ply to reach your destination.

I wonder what aliens think about the homelessness on earth!

Had Garnacho’s magnificent goal against Everton been scored on home ground, the stadium would have exploded. In the eyes of haters the diamond in your hand looks like the ordinary stone.

Imagine building a proper city with Lego. That’s exactly how ridiculous fiction writing with AI will be.

If you’re moving forward, move on. If you’re not, make a move.

There are six days in a week — and a Christmas known simply as Sunday.

If only prices of food could be falling drastically — like standards!

If Haaland had won the 2023 Ballon d’Or, it would have been a Haaland’Or.

Any leader who runs out of ideas should as well run out of office, or the people will run out of patience with him.

Dear God, keep back from me that gift that would turn from a blessing to a curse — like the case of Nigeria's oil

Poetry is just a story told frugally — almost silently, and in near-whispers.

To many people, climate change is the most modern folktale.

When there’s devastating corruption in a country, it’s bad leadership. When there’s nothing done about it by those being misruled, it’s bad followership — like in Nigeria.

When there’s devastating corruption in a country, it’s bad leadership. When there’s nothing done about it, it’s bad followership — like in Nigeria.

I have had Coronavirus. I have experienced the lot. When you have it, apart from having died a few times while there was a tiny breath of hell in you, you become just born again. You’re like a new-born baby, helpless and reliant on those around it for everything.

I’ve been to both heaven and hell. I saw the 1970s. They were heaven. I am seeing today. It is hell.

I’ve been to both heaven and hell. The 1970s were heaven. Today is hell.