Top 400 Michael Bassey Johnson Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Don’t shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

152. “There is a striking difference between going to school, and getting an education.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

153. “An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

154. “Reserve your love, not for the slow and tamed, but for the wild and adventurous.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

155. “Don’t allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can’t stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

156. “On your way to greatness, you will fall, but like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, you too shall rise again.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

157. “The most brilliant student in class is a god and the rest are morons.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

158. “A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

159. “Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

160. “Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

161. “There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

162. “Life begins when you start something, and blooms when you keep doing it.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

163. “The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that’s when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

164. “In a world of the ordinary and predictable, be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

165. “A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

166. “The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

167. “Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

168. “It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

169. “You did not lose if you lost things that made you lose yourself.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

170. “Life is a song, and the difference you make is the lyrics.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

171. “Keep those who believe in you closer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

172. “Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

173. “When you are committed to your goals, the universe will treat your case as important.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

174. “Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

175. “In nature, water plays the role of a mirror.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

176. “When a person is deserted, he learns by default, how to survive.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

177. “Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

178. “Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

179. “Like the sand of the earth, your gifts are countless, and some are stepping on theirs without knowing.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

180. “When the sun goes down, the moon becomes the king of the sky.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

181. “Dreams taught me never to doubt myself, by letting me do the impossible.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

182. “Time is not running out. Ideas are not running out. You are just running out of patience.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

183. “A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn’t share her body with any of them.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

184. “Stars are meant to shine in the night sky. Be among the stars. Shine bright!”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

185. “Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

186. “True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, ‘this is my own’! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

187. “When you build a fence around yourself, you’ll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

188. “In the kingdom of spices, garlic is the king.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

189. “Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

190. “There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

191. “There are things you need to know that you already know.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

192. “The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

193. “Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

194. “You can find a temporary happiness in things like drinking liquor or smoking a joint. But the true one comes when you start embarking on a journey of doing something worthy of esteem and emulation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

195. “The bed is just a decoration in a busy man’s bedroom.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

196. “To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn’t make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn’t crave for anything apart from your own thing.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

197. “My imagination is like the sea, it is deeper than you can imagine.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

198. “When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

199. “A life spent in nature is a life well lived.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

200. “When it rains, God sits on his throne and listens to his favorite music – the sound of thunder.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson