Nana Awere Damoah Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Nana Awere Damoah
When the future you see is worse than the present, one begins to worry. And, oh, I speak of Ghanaian politicians. The tadpoles are out-jumping the toads. — Nana Awere Damoah
People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world. — Nana Awere Damoah
This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality. — Nana Awere Damoah
When you teach kindness to animals, you teach reverence for life in general. The youngster who is taught concern for animals will grow up being kind to his fellow man. It follows, too, that he will not become callous to widespread suffering in any form." Bernard Beck — Nana Awere Damoah
Don't cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday. — Nana Awere Damoah
In Ghana, many issues start with the vim of boiling beans and end with the dignity of a fart. — Nana Awere Damoah
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner, it has been said, but in Ghana, we have deteriorated to the point of having hope as dessert after dinner. We don't plan anything and the future just seems to happen to us, without our input. All we seem to do is to just show up. — Nana Awere Damoah
Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side. — Nana Awere Damoah
Loss taught me. It taught me that I won't have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow. — Nana Awere Damoah
Don't under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don't think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground. — Nana Awere Damoah
Many of us don't dream; more dangerously, many of us don't spend quality time thinking. We worry, yes, but we do not think. We don't project ourselves into the future. We don't utilize imagination. For many who do dream, what is lacking is the translation of the dream into reality and the tenacity to hold on to the dream when the going gets tough. — Nana Awere Damoah
The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds. — Nana Awere Damoah
Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there is still sunshine and life. — Nana Awere Damoah
Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so. — Nana Awere Damoah
Be controlled from the inside of you. Be controlled by your standards. Be motivated by your decisions. Have high standards of behaviour that ride over the negative noise of others. Laugh with those who laugh, mourn with those who mourn, but don't mourn when you don't want to, and laugh at those who laugh at you if you want to. Determine not to be a photo-sensor that brightens the lights only when people are nice to you. — Nana Awere Damoah
Marry someone whose nonsense you can tolerate. — Nana Awere Damoah
My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes. — Nana Awere Damoah
When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem. — Nana Awere Damoah
Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children. — Nana Awere Damoah
Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still. — Nana Awere Damoah
A big nose does not necessarily mean a sharper sense of smell. — Nana Awere Damoah
I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics. — Nana Awere Damoah
Social media has helped make the world flatter and reduced the degrees of separation, leading to the situation where many can interact with people who, but for this platform, they may never have had the privilege to meet or speak with. That is the opportunity social media brings.
But it does come with responsibilities. Not to take this opportunity for granted and not to throw decorum to the dogs. The line between virtual and real life is getting thinner and is lately made of morning dew.
Manners matter on social media. — Nana Awere Damoah
Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented. — Nana Awere Damoah
We should learn as a people to pay good money for the food that feeds the soul and mind, same as we do for the food that feeds the body. — Nana Awere Damoah
A worker sent a form for salary advance to his manager who refused to sign it based on the reason given. The manager said the situation the worker had stated as an emergency wasn't plausible.
The worker had written that he needed the money for a family emergency: his wife had given birth.
"It is not an emergency," the boss insisted, "you had a nine-month notice. — Nana Awere Damoah
Many of us are reactive, not proactive. We react. We hit back. We are 'an eye for an eye' practitioners. We attack when we are attacked, with good measure. Our barometer reads from the environment and makes us act accordingly. We are mirrors who reflect the anger in others, the bad attitude in the other person, the negative comments of others. Let me show you a higher level of living. — Nana Awere Damoah
Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same. — Nana Awere Damoah
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." Chinese proverb — Nana Awere Damoah
What a man says when drunk, he thought about whilst sober. — Nana Awere Damoah
Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends. — Nana Awere Damoah
If you won't push someone up, the least you can do is not to pull him down. — Nana Awere Damoah
Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives. — Nana Awere Damoah
Looking around today, I see a lot of young people who act as if they have all the time in the world, and older persons who think this attitude is alright. It is unfortunate that there are young citizens who still believe life begins at forty and that life before forty is non-scoring, and older citizens who still insist that unless you are old, you have nothing to offer, equating age with wisdom. — Nana Awere Damoah
Marry someone who can grow with you and who can allow you to grow. — Nana Awere Damoah
Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with the stars. These people are so disillusioned they live life without any urgency. — Nana Awere Damoah
Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young. — Nana Awere Damoah
I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society! — Nana Awere Damoah
Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday. — Nana Awere Damoah
It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries. — Nana Awere Damoah
Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least. — Nana Awere Damoah
Our mental blocks are more formidable than the physical ones. Bob Marley said it when he asked us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. You first think what you become. The physical starts from the mental and the spiritual. — Nana Awere Damoah
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb — Nana Awere Damoah
Don't wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom. — Nana Awere Damoah
We love to quote the saying "Rome was not built in a day" but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn't happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day. — Nana Awere Damoah
Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this. — Nana Awere Damoah
Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum. — Nana Awere Damoah
Are we really ready to hear views without forming opinions about people? I write to reach a wide spectrum of people. Will my political views alienate many who are here or bring more here? Can my friends here see my views either for or against the government or opposition as views of an independent-minded person? — Nana Awere Damoah
Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief. — Nana Awere Damoah