Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.

*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.

Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else’s nightmare.

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

Life demands more thinking than remembering.

88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.

Memories rob us of the present.

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

Growing up is childish.

Overrated is order.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed, * when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living.

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

There is nothing wrong with being wrong.

Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.

The fear of failure is a liability.

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.

To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.

Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.

Juice is a poor man’s dessert.

Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.