Goodluck Jonathan Quotes

#1. Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Taylor Swift

#2. In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal ... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

Goodluck Jonathan

#3. One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

Goodluck Jonathan

#4. No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

James Cook

#5. All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.

Goodluck Jonathan

#6. We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.

Goodluck Jonathan

#7. There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria

Goodluck Jonathan

#8. One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.

Agatha Christie

#9. The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.

Bill Viola

#10. My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.

Goodluck Jonathan

#11. We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

Goodluck Jonathan

#12. It took us 6 years to get the right weapons to fight BokoHaram ...

Goodluck Jonathan

#13. Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Ben Carson

#14. Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

Goodluck Jonathan

#15. Under it, she yelled in pain. "I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

Rick Riordan

#16. Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.

Goodluck Jonathan

#18. Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing,

Goodluck Jonathan

#19. Right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

Hunter S. Thompson

#20. What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

Larry Wall

#21. You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Roxane Gay

#22. We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.

Kema Chikwe

#23. I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.

Raila Odinga

#24. I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Goodluck Jonathan

#25. Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent

Goodluck Jonathan

#26. I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

Muhammadu Buhari

#27. I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Goodluck Jonathan

#28. Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.

Goodluck Jonathan

#29. An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Fred Allen

#30. The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

Goodluck Jonathan

#31. My political ambition
is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

Goodluck Jonathan

#32. Nigeria will start exporting cars soon

Goodluck Jonathan

#33. Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.

Percival Lowell

#34. Fame is the thirst of youth.

Lord Byron

#35. Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible, in his opinion, to gratify the most extravagant, absurd desires by a subtle subterfuge, by a slight modification of the object of one's wishes.

Joris-Karl Huysmans