Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “We often betray our arrogance or immaturity by asserting that we will never do something bad that we are capable of doing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

402. “Making love instead of war is likely to lead to an even bigger population, which is likely to lead to wars.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

403. “Like shyness, cowardice cannot swim in alcohol.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

404. “The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

405. “A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

406. “Some men do not know the father of ‘their’ children.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

407. “Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

408. “Some people would deem their parents or children ugly if they were not theirs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

409. “True women empowerment will occur only as a result, not of the disempowerment of men, but of the stopping of our caring about the kind of genitals a person has, except when it comes to things such as reproduction and the use of public toilets.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

410. “The world would be a better place if even a fraction of us became the kinds of people we have deceived others into believing we are.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

411. “Even the longest book is read and was written one word at a time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

412. “Politicians’ competence lies not in solving our problems but in convincing us that they will.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

413. “It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

414. “Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

415. “It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

416. “Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

419. “One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

421. “Being in a relationship has the tendency to deceive one into believing that there is someone without whom one cannot live.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

422. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

424. “Suffering adds spice to life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

425. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

432. “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

433. “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

434. “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

435. “Every action is a reaction.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

437. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

447. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana