Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Some people will submit to you only in order to get what they want from you. If it is power that they wanted, once they have managed to separate it from you, they will turn against you and turn you into their slaves. Take care to discover the true intentions of men beforehand. Men are experts at hiding their true selves.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

52. “The road to your success is not a highway. You have to create it as you go.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

53. “A bad friend is nothing but a spy.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

54. “Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

55. “Life is politics, you do it or it does you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

56. “Giving up is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength. To know that you can’t a win a particular battle is wisdom.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

57. “An inspired stroke of a pen can save or damn the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

58. “When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

59. “The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It’s the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

60. “It’s better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

61. “No one respects the weak, but the strong respect each other.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

62. “A slave is a fallen king whose only hope to live is to one day recover his throne.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

63. “When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

64. “Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

65. “The end of love looks like the beginning of war.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

66. “Politics preys on people’s naivety.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

67. “Don’t constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

68. “Death is the great equalizer.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

69. “Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

70. “Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

71. “Open your mind and let the universe speak to you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

72. “A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

73. “The gatekeepers are not there to prohibit you anything, they just want to frighten you away, if you are courageous enough to go through them, they will let you, thinking you are the owner or his so.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

74. “Life is a party where everybody is invited. Feel free to serve yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

75. “What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

76. “Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

77. “The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That’s why it’s cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

78. “Don’t think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

79. “Life has no map; it’s made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

80. “A bad marriage is a season in hell.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

81. “How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

82. “The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

83. “Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

84. “Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one’s ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it’s a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

85. “Failure is the raw material from which success is made from.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

86. “A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

87. “Don’t copy, get inspired.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

88. “The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

89. “Nature is blind. When it hits, it hits whatever is in its path.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

90. “Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

91. “The worst threat to man is man himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

92. “Anger is contagious. Avoid the company of a person who is always angry.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

93. “The only way to stop a nightmare is to open your eyes, if perchance you realize you were dreaming.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

94. “A smile is a friend maker.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

95. “If you’re in doubt, you’re right, trust your instincts.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

96. “A bad friend is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere friend is hard.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

97. “We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

98. “Forgive your enemies but don’t forget what they did to you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

99. “Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

100. “Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana