Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

302. “Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That’s life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

303. “You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

304. “We are gods but we are afraid of the ensuing responsibility; that’s why we prefer to remain slaves. Only if we dared to rise up to the challenge and assume our divinity, we could perform most of the miracles we pray for.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

305. “The most savage of human kind are the most advanced.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

308. “Love will be safe until the brain wakes up.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

309. “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

310. “The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

311. “Unless you have completely destroyed your enemy, your survival is precarious.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

312. “Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

313. “You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

314. “If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

316. “Seeking wisdom will make you unhappy.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

317. “Loneliness is a shadow of death.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

319. “Politicians look for interests not people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

320. “If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

322. “Believe that fate is smiling to you and everything you touch will turn into gold.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

323. “What’s the use of life without health? It’s like living dead.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

325. “Two things are difficult about writing a novel. Starting and finishing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

326. “Neighbor: the nicest enemy you will ever get.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

327. “The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

328. “We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

329. “Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

330. “Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

331. “Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

332. “Your true beliefs are known in agony.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

333. “You will know a friendship is not natural when you don’t feel relaxed with.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

334. “Politicians know it’s a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

335. “Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

336. “Globalization is an attempt to create one global country, and according to the laws of power politics, the greatest nations will take the lead and reap the most benefits from the effort. For those who believe globalization’s aim is to foster equal opportunity among nations, I am sorry; there is no free lunch in human affairs.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

337. “We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

338. “Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

339. “Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

340. “Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

341. “Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

342. “Remember that power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

343. “Nobody killed gods, nobody had the intention of killing gods. People simply ignored them as they failed to keep their promises.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

344. “Don’t be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I love.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

346. “You win even if you lose. You will be celebrated to have dared to confront those terrible odds instead of crossing your arms against danger.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

347. “We hate simple lies we can easily detect but we love lies that are well crafted to the point we take them almost as reality, hard to detect lies that give sense to our lives. He is a messiah anyone who can concoct such lies and presents them to our imaginations.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

348. “Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

349. “Love is like life; when you stop to think about it and analyse the parts that make it, the genie escapes from the bottle.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

350. “The mind’s health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana