Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

202. “There is no human relationship that is not based on self-interest.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

203. “Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

204. “A genuine smile can speak a thousand words.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

205. “Husband: a former boyfriend.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

206. “If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

207. “We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

208. “Our thoughts shape how we behave.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

209. “You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that’s your area of expertise.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

212. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

215. “The reason you don’t succeed in life is because you are too lenient with your deadly enemies. Identify them and eradicate them completely, don’t let any of their seed escape your vengeful sword. Don’t negotiate with the enemy and never make deals with them. Only after you have wiped them out of the map will success smile at you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

216. “It’s not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

217. “Look at the sky and count the stars, look down and realize we are all from the same universe and stop discrimination.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

218. “I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

219. “Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

220. “She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

221. “Religious truth, government truth and corporate truth are names for more sinister things.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

222. “Dreams, just dreams, it’s all illusion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

223. “Though we are terrorized by death, it’s not different from birth, it just happens.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

224. “Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

225. “All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

226. “I thought it was love. No, it wasn’t. It was marriage.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

227. “Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

228. “There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

229. “Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

230. “Fear of death is irrational. We all know we will die one day. But again we are irrational beings.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

231. “Sometimes I reach the highest heights of hope, at other times I reach the deepest of despair. Sometimes I am happy, at other times I am sad. At some point I am a believer, and at some other time an unbeliever. Sometimes I love, some other times I hate. That’s what it means to be human.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

232. “Don’t ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

233. “Power writes history, not scribes.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

234. “Don’t blame humanity for being weak, it’s still growing up.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

235. “I am what I have ever read.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

237. “I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

238. “Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

239. “It’s useless to be as angry as to kill a man; you become responsible of killing someone who would have died of his own accord.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

240. “Somethings are simply better left the way they are.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

241. “The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

242. “When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

243. “Genius is believing in yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

244. “Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

245. “When something looks impossible, don’t give up without testing its impossibility.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

246. “A coward is a man who’d rather live dead than die alive.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

247. “Politicians look for interests not people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

248. “The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

249. “If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don’t wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

250. “Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana