Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Suffering adds spice to life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

402. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

405. “You cannot really stop aging. You can only delay or hide some of its effects.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

406. “Some people are so impatient that they ask you for a favour as soon as they are done complimenting you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

407. “Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

408. “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

409. “In countless cases, parenthood has been the worst attempt to contribute something positive to the world.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

410. “Although they pretended to be angry, and because that finally destroyed their guilt, some people were each secretly happy to discover that their partner has cheated on them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

411. “Every action is a reaction.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

412. “Some people are each way more hurt by their worst enemy’s success than they were hurt by their then best friend’s death.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

413. “Not everything happens for a reason; we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

414. “Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

415. “Ignorance often makes a complicated thing seem simple, or vice versa.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

416. “Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

417. “We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

418. “To most women, size does count, but – if the man is rich, powerful, or famous – it does not matter.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

419. “More than 99.99% of facts are not and will never be useful to even a single person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

420. “For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

421. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

424. “Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

425. “Very few things make a fool feel smart better than negotiating.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

427. “The worst thing some people have ever done is save some people’s lives.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

429. “It is humanly impossible to be an entirely bad or good person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

430. “Being alive does not necessarily lead to feeling alive.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

431. “Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

432. “With the freedom to ask whatever comes the freedom to answer however.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

433. “Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

434. “Because of pressure from society, many a man has married a woman with whom he isn’t compatible; she likes fairy tales, whereas he likes hairy males.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

435. “Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

436. “Being an ignoramus is not enough to prevent one from being famous.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

437. “A thing can be imperfect according to some standard, but not in itself.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

438. “Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

439. “The great suffering caused by lack of freedom of thought is nothing compared to that caused by lack of freedom from thought.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

440. “Spirituality destroys the ego. Religion strengthens it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

441. “An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

442. “Most kids would not respect their parents as much as they do, or even at all, if they knew how intellectually undemanding is the role they played in their creation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

443. “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

444. “Some things are made funny to some people by their ignorance.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

445. “Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

446. “Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

447. “An untrained mind is way less inclined to count your blessings than it is inclined to count your curses.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

448. “A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned – in the very same prison – by the employment contract that he has signed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

449. “Reading, seeing, and hearing happen way more often than understanding.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

450. “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