Nana Awere Damoah Quotes

#1. People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world.

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#2. Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

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#3. My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

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#4. Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.

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#5. What a man says when drunk, he thought about whilst sober.

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#6. If you won't push someone up, the least you can do is not to pull him down.

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#7. Even the ant reached its destination as long as it didn't stop walking.

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#8. Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there is still sunshine and life.

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#9. Marry someone who can grow with you and who can allow you to grow.

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#10. I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

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#11. Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this.

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#12. When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem.

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#13. In Sikaman, deadlines are on wheels.

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#14. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner, it has been said, but in Ghana, we have deteriorated to the point of having hope as dessert after dinner. We don't plan anything and the future just seems to happen to us, without our input. All we seem to do is to just show up.

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#15. We should learn as a people to pay good money for the food that feeds the soul and mind, same as we do for the food that feeds the body.

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#16. Don't wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.

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#17. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb

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#18. The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.

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#19. When you teach kindness to animals, you teach reverence for life in general. The youngster who is taught concern for animals will grow up being kind to his fellow man. It follows, too, that he will not become callous to widespread suffering in any form." Bernard Beck

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#20. Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.

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#21. A well-rounded head doesn't necessarily house a well-rounded mind.

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#22. Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side.

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#23. Loss taught me. It taught me that I won't have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow.

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#24. Don't cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

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#25. When the future you see is worse than the present, one begins to worry. And, oh, I speak of Ghanaian politicians. The tadpoles are out-jumping the toads.

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#26. Don't under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don't think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

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#27. Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.

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#28. Marry someone whose nonsense you can tolerate.

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#29. I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society!

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#30. Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.

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#31. Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with the stars. These people are so disillusioned they live life without any urgency.

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#32. Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

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#33. Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief.

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#34. Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.

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#35. A big nose does not necessarily mean a sharper sense of smell.

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#36. Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.

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#37. Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.

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#38. Our mental blocks are more formidable than the physical ones. Bob Marley said it when he asked us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. You first think what you become. The physical starts from the mental and the spiritual.

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#39. It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

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#40. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." Chinese proverb

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#41. Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.

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#42. This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

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#43. In Ghana, many issues start with the vim of boiling beans and end with the dignity of a fart.

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#44. Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.

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