Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

252. “In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

253. “Seeking wisdom will make you unhappy.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

254. “Loneliness is a shadow of death.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

255. “Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don’t limit yourself to your own means.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

256. “If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of citizens who accept to live under the same law.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

257. “There is no wise man who has not suffered in his life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

258. “An optimist is actually a pessimist well prepared for all eventualities, not a blind adventurer.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

259. “A faint hearted man will always be poor.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

260. “They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

261. “Think of your life not as a disappearing horizon, but as an approaching hope.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

262. “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

263. “A smile a day keeps trouble at bay.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

264. “Even our friendship with ourselves will end. A day is coming when you and yourself will be split apart and will never be able to meet again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

265. “Don’t be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

267. “Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

268. “The day you stop dreaming you will loose your wings.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

269. “Did you know you could destroy dragons? Dragons are not actually real, they just roar to scare you away from your goals. In fact they are afraid of determined heroes, they take flight at their approach.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

270. “It’s useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

271. “When you die you lose nothing, you are deprived of nothing. It becomes like before you were born and had nothing. You are deprived of something you wanted and you can only feel and want things if your senses work perfectly. The dead can’t feel anything.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

272. “Reason is the gatekeeper, but it cannot resist the rushing torrents of emotion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

273. “There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

274. “It’s the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog’s life in god’s world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

275. “The dictator says “You are allowed to think as you want” but never write it down or talk about it. If you cross these borders we cannot guarantee your security.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

276. “Learn how they failed and succeeded, then fail on and succeed.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

277. “You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

278. “Politicians are masters in the art of mixing truth and deceit and serving the deadly cocktail to the public as a panacea to their problems.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

279. “Writing is magic happening on paper.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

280. “Avoid a problem if you can. It’s too late when you try to solve it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

281. “If you want to be extremely important in people’s lives, give them extremely good services they can’t find anywhere else.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

282. “Great story tellers are great liars. None of those complex characters, events and settings are anything but the figments of their own imaginations.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

283. “The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

284. “You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

285. “Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

286. “Don’t believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

287. “Compare yourself to others for inspiration not competition.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

288. “If anyone rises to power, it’s not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren’t destined for the honor.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

289. “Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

291. “A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

292. “Husband: a former boyfriend.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

293. “We need an anthropomorphous god, a god with human features in order to relate to him, but we don’t want to make him evil like us, so we create the devil and make him responsible for all the evil in the world, leaving our god completely holy and blameless.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

294. “To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

295. “Thou shalt not have your life on a golden plate, Thou shalt fight for it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

297. “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

298. “Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

299. “An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

300. “Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana