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MORE QUOTES BY Chinua Achebe

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a ...”

Chinua Achebe

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being gove...”

“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them”

“The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such...”

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“One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful”

“It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.”

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let g...”

“I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection”

“Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you ...”