Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “We ought to relentlessly ignore excuses, especially those we are told by ourselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

52. “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

53. “Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

54. “Solitude is not the only possible parent of boredom: we sometimes find ourselves bored to death while we are with someone, a few people, or even many people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

55. “Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

56. “Masochism is the art of turning punishments into rewards.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

57. “Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

58. “If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

59. “The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

60. “Being yourself is easier than trying to be someone else. The former requires no effort.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

61. “Most people’s minds are almost always too busy for them to feel their skins being caressed by the wind or the sun.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

62. “Half of mathematics is the art of saving space.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

63. “Hiring a talented teacher or coach is the closest the rich can get to buying their children talent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

64. “Even identical twins have their own differences.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

65. “There is no such thing as selflessness. There are only fair and unfair selfishness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

66. “A lot is said about the serious by the fact that the most intelligent person around is almost always the most playful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

67. “Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

68. “I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

69. “Thanks to their egos, instead of simply saying that they do not know, some people sometimes try very hard to remember something they know they have never known.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

70. “Not being intimidated has the power to intimidate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

71. “Voting gives us an opportunity to choose from options that were chosen for us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

72. “You cannot really not care about what other people think of you and still wear a perfume or cologne.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

73. “To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

74. “Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

75. “To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

76. “Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job; some need customers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

77. “Life is how you look at it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

78. “Some things are so good or pleasurable that you wouldn’t wish them on your worst enemy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

79. “Like pretty much every debate, an argument is an explosion caused by the collision of egos.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

80. “Surrendering to reality requires the highest degree of humility.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

81. “People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

82. “Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

83. “The forbiddenness of a fruit makes even the taste of a lemon sweet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

84. “Some truths, some people will never understand; some, no one will ever understand.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

85. “You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

86. “In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

87. “The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

88. “Advertising is 48% distraction; 4% information; and 48% manipulation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

89. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

90. “Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

91. “When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

92. “Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

93. “There are often many people dying from thirst while many people are running for dear life away from the rain.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

94. “Perception is projection.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

95. “Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

96. “Millions of fools are over the age of 50.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

97. “It is easy to be a good person when times are good.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

98. “There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

99. “The best way to hurt someone who hates you is to love them or someone they hate; the second best is to refuse to hate them back; and the third best is to learn from their mistakes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

100. “The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana