Miscellaneous Quotes by Bangambiki Habyarimana

MISCELLANEOUS QUOTES

1430. It's hard to reason with an angry person

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1431. Planning is worrying based on facts

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1432. In anger you fight against yourself

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1433. The world was changed by people whose ideas were first considered silly

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1434. There is a dustbin in the house in which we throw trash. Nature has its own dustbin.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1435. Man once thought science could save him, now that it has so advanced, he is afraid it will destroy him

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1436. Don't contradict a liar, let him entangle himself further in his web

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1437. Man has a tendency to destroy first, repair later

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1438. Patience is not blindly waiting for fate. It is waiting for something to happen according to what you are actively doing to change the situation

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1439. Humanity is digging itself into a grave, your job is to dig it out and give it new life and hope

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1440. You don't get what you want, you get what you can

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1441. Honestly speaking honesty can land you in hot waters

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1442. When someone says "I don't care" it's because he is afraid.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1443. “Behold, man and animal are brothers”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Cecil the Lion's Testament

1444. “I don't criticize the free choice of others, and I ask others do the same to me”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1445. “To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1446. “Some people think they are holier than others

Some religions think they are the only true ones

Some gods think they are the most divine

Some races think they are a superior breed

The war goes on to the grave and beyond”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1447. “You believe it can't happen to you until it does, and it's too late”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1448. We care about others only if we want something back from our action, it's a sad fact

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1449. There are some who dream eating. People who throw away food should aim it to their empty plates

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1450. How easy it is for a fool to destroy what an intelligent person has patiently built for years

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1451. You cannot remember everything you learned at school but knowing that you attended school will give you confidence to confront life alone

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1452. to faith doubt is sin

to science virtue

to love cancer

and to life suicide

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1453. It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1454. Most of us live to please others

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1455. Nothing destroys relationships quickly than vengeance

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1456. Anger is contagious. Avoid the company of a person who is always angry

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1457. Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1458. Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, pretend they are not cats

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1459. The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1460. Instead of recognizing their mistakes, they commit crimes to hide them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1461. Honesty is a very choosy virtue

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1462. The best kept secret is the one you share with nobody else

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1463. Never wake up a fool

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1464. It takes a match to light up a forest but an army of firefighters to control the fire.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1465. True education should bring us close to nature and not the other way around

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1466. A quarreling home is bound to destruction

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1467. Simple minded people find simple solutions to their problems

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1468. I now understand what fame means, to have your name remembered by strangers

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1469. The prohibited fruit is always sweet

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1470. If you want to know the true character of a person, observe him in a heated argument

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1471. It's the child in us that root us to nature.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1472. Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1473. The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1474. White hair reminds you that time has finally caught up with you

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1475. A foolish old man is like on old tree that bears no fruit

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1476. Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1477. You will see true character after a defeated ambition

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1478. You are never committed to anything until you are ready to die for it

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1479. People witness the end of their small worlds every day: when somebody's marriage ends, when his only son dies, when a husband/wife dies, when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, when his party is erased from the political map, when a leader faces a coup, when his town is bombed and his house is hit, when he is rejected by society…

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1480. Animals kill for food; men also kill each other for food (to satisfy whatever need that pushed them to do the killing)

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1481. Everyone has the right to make a fool of himself-Internet slogan

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1482. True understanding lies beyond the desert

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1483. The weak gives in to people's provocations

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1484. Politics preys on people naivety

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1485. You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1486. You can't live without eating no matter how special you are

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1487. The stomach is the engine of the world. Without food the world would stop

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1488. Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1489. Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1490. The wait of the age becomes heavier when you think about it

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1491. Problems bite more when you give them attention

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1492. Know the laws before you break them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1493. It's not what we can do in the light of day that makes us great, but what we can do in the dark but don't which make us great.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

I speak of the greatness of the mind. It’s not obeying the written laws that make us great, but obeying the unwritten laws. A real good man is not the one who is only good when his actions are seen or who manages to hide his evil actions, but the one who does not do evil when he has a chance and no one is there to report him, the one who refuses to do evil even if it is in his power to do it with guaranteed impunity.

1494. The famous are like weird demons; they refuse to shut up their mouths, even after they are dead

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1495. Don't play hero to resist fleeing, it's nature's way to take you to safety

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1496. If you obey all the rules, you will get nowhere

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Rules start like “You shall not, it’s prohibited to, you can’t, etc.…Rules and laws are designed to keep you in your place. Obey them if you have no ambition. But if you are ambitious, you will find them annoying. What they do is basically close the door in your face. Often you will find you need to break them to look beyond and create new ones in its place if necessary. We celebrate great men and heroes for having been capable to break the laws that enslaved them personally and their people in general. Break whatever rules and laws that enslave or restrict you to reach your full potential, after that you will have reason to call yourself a man

1497. They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1498. To grow a habit is fun; to destroy it is matter of life and death

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1499. If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1500. Most people are a photocopy of other people. They have killed originality in them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1501. The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1502. If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1503. There are written and unwritten laws. Written laws dwell in books and are ignored. Unwritten laws dwell in our hearts and we live by them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1504. The most important law of all is to know the when, how and why of breaking them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1505. Ambition is a dream without patience

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1506. The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1507. You can harm yourself trying to save someone, but don't give up on saving people

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1508. When will Israelis and Palestinians realize that they are brothers and stop their age old quarreling?

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1509. Preaching is asking people to do what you yourself failed to do and expect they fail so that you can come back and preach at them the next day

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1510. Lead by actions, not by words

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Anyone can lead by words. It’s easy to speak but hard to act. A true leader leads by actions. He goes to the terrain and teaches by doing. How beautiful when I see an administrator in a district talking about famine eradication working with the population at a local farm

1511. Calm is the best revenge

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Your opponent wants to provoke you and drive you crazy. When you lose control you have lost the battle. He has created into you something he wants: A miserable wretch. Don’t give in. Calm down and look on as he gets crazy himself and digs himself into deeper insanity. Calm is the only revenge you have.

1512. People like it when others fail and suffer. They get assured they are not alone in that predicament

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1513. I am a heartless, cruel assassin. I don't remember the number of chickens I have slaughtered

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1514. Everybody knows what you are made of by how you react to provocation

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1515. Don't run against time go hand in hand

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1516. What was heresy yesterday is dogma today

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1517. As long as they don't know, I am safe

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Secrets are everywhere. The world sits on mountains of secrets: personal secrets, family secrets, corporate secrets, government secrets, religious secrets, etc. If all the secrets were laid bare, the world would never be the same again. Secret is power. Never share your secrets with anyone.

1518. We do not brag about ancestors that were not great

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1519. It's a sin only if it harms you

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1520. A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1521. Ambition: Goals with a club

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1522. Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1523. How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody else strait.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1524. A fault is something very easy to find in others, but invisible when you try to find it in yourself

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

1525. Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction

― Bangambiki Habyarimana