Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

“You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.”

“We ought to relentlessly ignore excuses, especially those we are told by ourselves.”

“Making popcorn is a reminder of the very valuable fact that very similar people who are given the very same opportunity in the very same environment at the very same time will not succeed or mature at the very same time, if they will manage to succeed or mature.”

“When it comes to fuelling hard work, poverty is in most poor people way less powerful than greed is in most rich people.”

“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”

“Success is the longest route to deciding to be happy.”

“Success freed the vast majority of those who are successful from the enslaving desire to be successful, only to replace it with the enslaving desire to remain or to be even more successful.”

“We do our real best only when we really do only to do.”

“With success comes the never-ending task of blocking or weeding out fake friends.”

“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”

“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”

“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”

“It is a sign of failure to have achieved spiritual awakening, to seek happiness in material success.”

“In some cases, inheritance is nothing but an act of paying one’s dues with a credit card.”

“How the journey started is not necessarily a reflection of how it will end.”

“Wanting is a form of suffering.”

“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”

“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”

“How you are doing is often shaped by who you are doing.”