Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

452. “It is impossible to count your blessings while you are counting the things with which you need or want to be blessed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

453. “Some of those who faked it until they made it are now faking not to have made it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

454. “We do things for others for ourselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

455. “We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming across as jealous.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

457. “Suffering adds spice to life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

458. “The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

459. “Some people are kept righteous by their not being courageous.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

460. “If you cannot help but envy others, at least envy people for things such as their patience, perseverance, and tolerance.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

461. “Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

462. “Hunger is by far the best spice.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

463. “It is often in our best interest not to understand, to misunderstand, or to pretend not to understand.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

464. “Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

465. “Every relationship is, to each party, ultimately about them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

466. “Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

467. “Funerals are a constant reminder that chasing most of the things we are chasing is an embarrassing way to spend a portion of our lives.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

468. “We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

469. “The vast majority of those who are respected for being knowledgeable have not produced even a single significant opinion or question of their own.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

470. “The simplest way to make a coward courageous is to convince them that you admire their courage.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

471. “Happiness that was pursued comes greatly diluted by the pursuit.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

472. “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

473. “It is better to die for a dream than to live a nightmare.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

474. “Some people are wise only when they are in public.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

475. “The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

476. “A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

477. “Being educated is the closest most people will ever get to being wise or intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

478. “You don’t know what you don’t have until it comes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

479. “Not all good things are good for us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

484. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

486. “Women who play hard to get make life seem shorter.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

487. “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

488. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

493. “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

494. “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

495. “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

496. “98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana