“Where wisdom does not work with eloquence, there is no quote.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The art of silence should be learned with as much skills and expertise as the art of eloquence.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“God gave me life through my family; He gave me a good life through my friends.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
"When everybody follows established rules, there will be no creativity."
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Having knowledge and not applying it is worse than being hungry and not eating food.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Some problems are to be ignored, some to be discussed only, some to be laughed at and some to be tackled. If we attempt to solve all problems, we’ll run mad.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Knowledge is the only nourishment that can satisfy the soul.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“When its money, serve others first before yourself. When its knowledge, serve yourself first before others.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“For virtues you need education. For vices you just need imitation.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The person who has knowledge and does not apply it is worse than he who has food and not eating it and worse still than he who is sick and not taking medicine.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Knowledge is the wisdom of the scholar just as wisdom is the knowledge of the philosopher.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Education devoid of honesty becomes a weapon of social destruction.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Knowledge without religion is useless, religion without knowledge is fruitless.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“If you want to know everything, then always assume that you know nothing.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“My parents made my life possible, my teachers made it meaningful.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“My concern is not about the bad man who might get worse; my concern is about the good man who fails to get better.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“A gentle and humble man is the one who doesn’t put up a show when he wins and congratulates his opponents when he loses.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The best way to judge a man is by comparing what he does with what he is capable of doing not by comparing what he does with what others are doing”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Friends are never too many and enemies never too few.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“I am having a life because of my family; I am having a good life because of my friends.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“I do not fight my enemies myself, rather I pit them against each other.”
“Knowledge without honesty leads to wickedness, honesty without knowledge leads to foolishness.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“I’ll rather fail myself than to fail the people, but I’ll rather fail the people than to fail my conscience.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“He who compels anyone to be good, have stretched himself too far. No one is doing anyone any favour by being a good person.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“I will hurt myself instead of hurting anyone, but I will hurt everyone instead of hurting my conscience.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“It’s good to be special and pretend to be like a fool, but it’s not good to be a fool and pretend to be special.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Get cheated once; it’s a mistake, twice; it’s an accident, but thrice; it’s foolishness.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“In all affairs, he who knows when to start is clever, but he who knows when to stop is wise.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“More often, a man’s wisdom is recognized by the type of questions he asks more than the type of answers he provides.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The wisest man is he who learns wisdom even from fools.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“To be rich and pretend to be poor is wisdom but to be poor and pretend to be rich is stupidity.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Although they may go hand in hand, but never mistake dumbness for foolishness; eloquence for intelligence; patience for weakness; obedience for kindness and confidence for braveness.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“When given a roadmap to success don’t be in a haste to carefully look for the position where preparation, patience and perseverance lie.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Sometimes even to be alive is enough motivation for success.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Success is what occurs when patience accompanies hard work.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Not every opportunity becomes a victory, but every victory is an additional opportunity.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The person I love most is the person that loves me most.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“It is not your happiness or enjoyment that matters, but how and where you derived that happiness or enjoyment.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“To live well in this life, you need to think excellently; to live excellently, you need to think extraordinarily.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Don’t wait until you become the direct victim of oppression before you start fighting it.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“A politician is a scientist who uses claims to support his knowledge. A scientist is a politician who uses knowledge to support his claims.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Wise people are in politics to bring about progress in the form of change or to bring about change in the form of progress.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“You don’t need greatness to attain humbleness; you need humbleness to attain greatness.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Neither consider your virtues to be too great nor your vices to be too less.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Never be rude to the polite and never be polite to the rude.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“I sometimes regret not saying something I should have said but not as often as I regret saying something I shouldn’t have said.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Listen to all things, respond to few things.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Learn how to talk; if you can’t, learn how to keep quiet.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Always have two targets; the actual target and the impossible target. Aim first for the impossible target and when you miss then you arrive at the actual target.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Good people are not bad not because they don’t know how to, but because they haven’t chosen to.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“I have come to understand that regret is not only about bad deeds, sometimes you regret about good deeds which you should have done better.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The greatest good may be forgotten in no time, but the slightest evil is always remembered for long. This is part of human nature.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Teach someone without feeling superior; learn from someone without feeling inferior.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Being a good person does not entail doing good things only; but avoiding wrong things as well.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“There are two men you will never find in this world; a one hundred percent good man and a one hundred percent bad man.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Fulfill your religious obligations, God will reward you. Fulfill your social obligations, the society will reward you.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Oh Lord! Whatever I have the slightest of intentions not to do it for Your sake, deny me the entire ability to fulfill it.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“There are two ways of accomplishing a successful career; by turning your work into a hobby or by turning your hobby into work.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“When you compare what you are with what you should be, you are indeed assessing yourself, but when you compare what you are with what others are, you are indeed troubling yourself.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Do not wait for others to do for you what you can do for yourself.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Never for one second allow your mind to be settled or satisfied with your achievements in life, if at all you want to be among the greatest achievers of your time.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“If you develop a habit of sincerely helping people, you don’t need a job.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The rich man is the one who gives before he receives while the poor man is the one who receives before he gives.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“A man who has his world full of gold has no advantage over the man who has his world full of contentment.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“When you obey your head, you are the master; when you obey your heart, you are the slave.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The sooner you identify all your weaknesses before others identify them for you, the better you prevent people from exploiting them against you.”
“It is possible to sow without reaping, but hardly possible to reap without sowing.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“My father usually says to me: if you are under moral obligation to do what is right, then I am under a superior moral obligation to ensure that you do what is right.”
“Satisfaction is attained the very day you stop concentrating on people above you and start concentrating on people below you, but then; how possible is that?”
“By reading the biographies of past great men, you feel inferior by comparing their unrivalled achievements; but by considering the civilization and powerful modern knowledge at your disposal, you feel superior.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“By default everybody is unserious; seriousness is learned, practiced and applied gradually. When people you work with refuse to be serious or at least refuse to appreciate your seriousness, you do not need any expertise before you abandon your seriousness and return to your default settings.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Your future is determined by choices you make today not tomorrow.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Half of our problems arise from using our heart where we ought to use our brain, the remaining half from using our brain where we ought to use our heart.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Whatever you can acquire through wealth and power, you can acquire it more perfectly through knowledge. Be it fame, respect or authority.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The day we stop learning is also the same day we start dying.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Those who are empty headed are usually empty handed.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The best qualities of a man manifests themselves in times of trials and tribulations not in times of peace and prosperity.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The charisma of a man is defined by his character while the character of a woman is defined by her charisma.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Sometimes your friends are your hidden enemies that you love and your enemies are your hidden friends that you hate.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Good friends are the perfect substitutes for bad family members.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“A man cannot change his destiny but he can reshape it.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Worry not if you lose all your body parts as long as you still have your heart and your brain.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Honesty is to the conscience what a good wife is to the husband.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“A good reputation takes a lifetime to build, but few minutes to destroy; a bad reputation takes few minutes to build, but a lifetime to destroy.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Since you can never be one hundred percent good, strive to make your bad qualities lost and drowned in the ocean of your good ones.”
“Choose what you say rather than say what you choose; make hard arguments using soft words rather than make soft arguments using hard words.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
(A Nigerian Learner, Researcher and Author)
“Observe frequently and carefully; that’s why you have a pair of eyes, listen patiently and attentively; that’s why you have a pair of ears and talk necessarily and rarely; that’s why you have a single mouth.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“It is better to die for something than to live for nothing.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“We have only two ways to failure; one is action without thought and the other is thought without action.”
“Repeated failure after several trials is indeed disastrous, but the most disastrous failure is to stop trying.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The three biggest threats to success are fatalism, complacency and procrastination.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The man who always shares his successes with everybody will have everybody share his difficulties with him.”
“God may decide to bless you with the resources without the talent or more importantly the talent without the resources, hence the need for mutual partnership.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Since God did not deny you the privilege of existence, He will never deny you the privilege of becoming what you worked for.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The problem with wisdom is that once you become wiser than everybody, you begin the futile attempt of becoming wiser than yourself.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“A single word may be convincing to the wise whereas a whole dictionary may not to the fool.”
“Undisciplined people want to be useful and are not, disciplined people want to be useless and cannot.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Giving to a person something which he needs more than you do is generosity, but giving a person something which you need more than he does is sacrifice.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Leadership without responsibility is empty; responsibility without leadership is weak.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The least you should do to someone you do not love is not to hate him.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Try not to make yourself significant by your own estimation, but make yourself great in the estimation of others.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Don’t allow yourself to burn on the inside in order to bring illumination to others.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Too much optimism makes someone lazy while too much pessimism makes someone hopeless.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Absolute hope without some doubt is delusion and absolute doubt without some hope is confusion.”
“Have the courage to follow the right path even if the whole world has chosen to follow the wrong path.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Aspire to become the greatest person in the world; if you fail, you’ll become the greatest person in your country.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Some qualities and talents within us are like expensive minerals underground, only the experts among us are able to discover, value, mine, polish and make use of them.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“When I am set to achieve something, I don’t want to have any idea on how difficult it is; the only idea I want to have is whether someone has ever done it or not.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Don’t allow your wishful if not foolish thinking to make you too optimistic about the future. The future does not come out of the woods; it is a collaboration of your current decisions, actions and inactions that determines the future.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“When you are interested in something you wait and watch it happen, when you are committed to something you act and make it happen.”
“Considerably equal amount of time, effort and opportunity are needed to make yourself good or bad in life, the ball is in your court.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Our life is made up of time; it is left to us to make our time to be made up of life.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Avoid being a copy cat to develop your natural creative skills. Try creating something even if it is nonsense, at least you will be given the credit of becoming the first person to do it.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“All selfish interests are personal but not all personal interests are selfish.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Our lives are full of mistakes and errors. The rate at which we are correcting or repeating them determines progress or otherwise.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Where you are to learn, don’t attempt to teach but where you are required to teach, never miss the opportunity to learn.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“All education is knowledge but not all knowledge is education.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Nothing good has ever come out of real ignorance just as nothing bad has ever come out of sincere knowledge.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“You are your fiercest opponent, if you ignore this opponent, you’ll lose to all other opponents.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“The greatest courage is to decide on what is right after everyone have decided on what is wrong.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“You are either yourself or you are nobody.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Half of becoming successful is by being truthful.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Truth without wisdom is a burden, wisdom without truth is deceit.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“I don’t know the worse between execution without proper planning and proper planning without execution.”
- Amir Abdulazeez
“Use the whole of yourself before you die, what’s the essence of dying with a lot of unutilized potential in you?”
- Amir Abdulazeez
These Quotes were culled from different publications by the Author.
No comments:
Post a Comment