Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

152. “A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

153. “You are received the way you present yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

154. “Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

156. “A smile is a friend maker.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

157. “Political correctness is euphemism for “fear to speak truth to authority.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

158. “People don’t only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don’t say and say what they don’t mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

159. “Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

160. “If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

161. “Nothing repels people like an angry face.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

162. “Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

163. “The lazy one says “Everything has been said and done, I have nothing to add.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

164. “The happiest of people are the ones not yet born, but they stubbornly want to and prove that I was right all along.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

165. “Some people quit when victory is around the corner.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

166. “Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god’s work by sending them to hell.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

167. “People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

168. “You are not helping the planet, you are not helping nature, you are the planet, you are nature, you are helping yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

170. “When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

171. “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

172. “Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

173. “Never attempt to please everybody; it’s simply impossible. Try to please your constituency, your fans, your close friends; they will win over the unbelievers.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

174. “Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it’s an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

175. “I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

176. “God created you without asking, he will take your life away without asking, he will save you without asking.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

177. “Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

178. “Visionaries will always meet opposition from weak minds but the seeds they plant always save the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

179. “Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

180. “If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

181. “Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

182. “Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

183. “Genius is believing in yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

184. “If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

185. “Our minds are a battle ground between good and bad ideas; we are whatever side wins the battle.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

186. “Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

187. “Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

188. “Don’t go into the business of pleasing people. You can’t please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

189. “Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

190. “Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

191. “Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

192. “Our thoughts shape how we behave.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

193. “The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

194. “Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

195. “Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

196. “Tell that incurable disease “Even if you refuse to leave me alone, when I am thrown to the fires, we will be destroyed together, and what will you have gained by not leaving me alone.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

197. “A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

198. “I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

199. “Blood thirsty has nothing to do with guns and swords, it has all to do with vindictive inclinations.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

200. “The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana