Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “People have the right not to change as per our wish, suggestion, or command, even if the change would benefit nobody but them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

452. “It takes immaturity to be hurt by the fact that someone does not trust you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

453. “Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

454. “We almost always want variety from the food we eat, but almost never from the people with whom we eat.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

455. “Small-mindedness is intensified by things such as big-headedness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

456. “Any degree of waste is too much.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

457. “Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

458. “Some real kings are drama queens.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

459. “The main source of some poor people’s misery is, not their being poor, but some people’s not being poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

460. “Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

461. “We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

462. “Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

463. “The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

464. “Fear happens inside the brain not inside the womb.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

465. “The biggest problem with mentorship is that in almost all cases the mentor either cannot make the mentee better than them, or does not want that to ever happen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

466. “We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

467. “It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

468. “Not knowing how to get what you want is better than knowing how to get what you do not want.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

469. “A lot is said by the fact that you are unlikely to listen to an entire album by an African American rapper without coming across the word ‘police’.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

470. “The vast majority of people are ignorant of the fact that intellectual maturity is a rarity.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

471. “A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

472. “We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

473. “You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

474. “The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

475. “The sun does not rise or set. The earth rotates.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

476. “Using unbreakable cups robs us of yet another incentive to be mindful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

477. “It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

478. “Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

479. “For someone’s ugliness or the congenital abnormality of their body or body part, if we cannot help but laugh, we ought to laugh, not at them, but at Mother Nature.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

480. “With wisdom comes the rare ability to tell whether or not trying to change someone’s mind would be a waste of time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

481. “Only those who have long stopped growing mentally have a problem with growing older.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

482. “Some people seem to see a conversation as a competition to see who can talk the longest and the most often.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

483. “Many of those who are advised to think outside the box do not even think inside the box.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

484. “The average woman feels small whenever a man who has just walked past her does not turn his head to check out her ass, especially if it is – or if she feels that it is – big.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

485. “Our eyes are meant to show us food when we are hungry, not to make us hungry when we see food.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

486. “Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

487. “We all suffer from different degrees of narrow-mindedness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

488. “Some of the facts we are denying we were told by our very own eyes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

489. “You can inherit good genes, not greatness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

490. “We become fat by overeating, not by not exercising.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

491. “For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they – unlike most human beings – have the means of production, and human beings, because they – unlike all companies – have the means of reproduction.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

492. “Being generally deemed a good person often requires one to tell a half-truth, not to tell the truth, or to tell a complete lie.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

493. “98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

494. “The challenging thing with trying to fill our emptiness with things such as food, drugs, and alcohol is that our body is a leaky container.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

495. “Saying that something is so gay is so straight.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

496. “Some people are extroverts only when they are drunk.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

497. “Some car accidents are caused by the ignorance or disbelief of the fact that a driver’s eyes and mind can be thousands of kilometres apart.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

498. “Seeing a friend cry is not as painful as hearing an enemy laugh.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

499. “Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

500. “To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana