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Top 25 William Kamkwamba Quotes (2025 Update)

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Trust yourself and believe. Whatever happens, don’t give up...”

1. “Trust yourself and believe. Whatever happens, don’t give up...”

— William Kamkwamba

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William Kamkwamba Quote: “I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.”

2. “I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Don’t insult me today just because I’m poor, you don’t know what my future holds!”

3. “Don’t insult me today just because I’m poor, you don’t know what my future holds!”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “I try, and I made it!”

4. “I try, and I made it!”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don’t give up, you will still succeed.”

5. “I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don’t give up, you will still succeed.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “So many things around you are reusable. Where other see garbage, I see opportunity.”

6. “So many things around you are reusable. Where other see garbage, I see opportunity.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Whatever you want to do, if you do it with all your heart, it will happen.”

7. “Whatever you want to do, if you do it with all your heart, it will happen.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.”

8. “One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.”

9. “When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the bigger they get, until one day they’ll rise up and taken you with them.”

10. “Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the bigger they get, until one day they’ll rise up and taken you with them.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Where the world sees trash, Africa recycles. Where the world see junk, Africa sees rebirth.”

11. “Where the world sees trash, Africa recycles. Where the world see junk, Africa sees rebirth.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “I remembered a parable that Jesus told to the disciples, the one about the sower of seeds. The seeds planted along the road get stepped on and damaged, those planted in rocky soil can’t take root, and the ones planted in the thorns get tangled in the barbs. But the seeds planted on fertile soil live and prosper.”

12. “I remembered a parable that Jesus told to the disciples, the one about the sower of seeds. The seeds planted along the road get stepped on and damaged, those planted in rocky soil can’t take root, and the ones planted in the thorns get tangled in the barbs. But the seeds planted on fertile soil live and prosper.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “I didn’t have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades.”

13. “I didn’t have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.”

14. “My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village.”

15. “Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Maize is just another word for white corn, and by the end of this story, you won’t believe how much you know about corn.”

16. “Maize is just another word for white corn, and by the end of this story, you won’t believe how much you know about corn.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “I will always be looking back at the things I’ve gone through, thinking of the struggling people I’ve seen.”

17. “I will always be looking back at the things I’ve gone through, thinking of the struggling people I’ve seen.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Touring the city, I began to wonder how Americans could build a skyscraper in a year, but in four decades of independence, Malawi couldn’t even bring clean water to a village. We could send witch planes into the skies and ghost trucks along the roads, but we couldn’t even keep electricity in our homes. We always seemed to be struggling to catch up. Even with so many smart and hardworking people, we were sill living and dying like our ancestors.”

18. “Touring the city, I began to wonder how Americans could build a skyscraper in a year, but in four decades of independence, Malawi couldn’t even bring clean water to a village. We could send witch planes into the skies and ghost trucks along the roads, but we couldn’t even keep electricity in our homes. We always seemed to be struggling to catch up. Even with so many smart and hardworking people, we were sill living and dying like our ancestors.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it’s going to grow up strong.”

19. “After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it’s going to grow up strong.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Whatever I decided to do, this lesson would always stay with me: If you want to make it, all you have to do is try.”

20. “Whatever I decided to do, this lesson would always stay with me: If you want to make it, all you have to do is try.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Cool! Where did you get such an idea?” “The library.”

21. “Cool! Where did you get such an idea?” “The library.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with friends I’ve met from America and Europe, I now know this is true. Children everywhere have similar ways of entertaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn’t so big.”

22. “Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with friends I’ve met from America and Europe, I now know this is true. Children everywhere have similar ways of entertaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn’t so big.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Everyone has the same hunger, son. We must learn to forgive.”

23. “Everyone has the same hunger, son. We must learn to forgive.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “No matter how foreign and lonely the world outside, the books always reminded me of home.”

24. “No matter how foreign and lonely the world outside, the books always reminded me of home.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.”

25. “A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “My grandmother Rose was a tough woman, so tough she’d built the family home with her own hands while my grandpa worked as a tailor in the market. She’d even built the furnace and molded the bricks herself, which is not an easy job, and even today, not the job of a woman.”

26. “My grandmother Rose was a tough woman, so tough she’d built the family home with her own hands while my grandpa worked as a tailor in the market. She’d even built the furnace and molded the bricks herself, which is not an easy job, and even today, not the job of a woman.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “If it weren’t for the great Scottish missionary David Livingstone, the Yao and Chewa might still be at odds today. Livingstone helped end slavery, opened Malawi to trade, and built good schools and missions. Young men became educated and earned money, and once these economic opportunities were available to all, our two tribes had little reason to fight. Today we consider the Yao our brothers and sisters. My.”

27. “If it weren’t for the great Scottish missionary David Livingstone, the Yao and Chewa might still be at odds today. Livingstone helped end slavery, opened Malawi to trade, and built good schools and missions. Young men became educated and earned money, and once these economic opportunities were available to all, our two tribes had little reason to fight. Today we consider the Yao our brothers and sisters. My.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “I did become homesick, and whenever that happened, I’d hide away in the school library, where the books filled rows and rows of shelves. I’d find a chair and study my lesson books in geography, social studies, biology, and math. I’d lose myself in American and African history, and within the colorful maps of the world. No matter how foreign and lonely the world was outside, the books always reminded me of home, sitting under the mango tree.”

28. “I did become homesick, and whenever that happened, I’d hide away in the school library, where the books filled rows and rows of shelves. I’d find a chair and study my lesson books in geography, social studies, biology, and math. I’d lose myself in American and African history, and within the colorful maps of the world. No matter how foreign and lonely the world was outside, the books always reminded me of home, sitting under the mango tree.”

— William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba Quote: “Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn’t so big.”

29. “Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn’t so big.”

— William Kamkwamba

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