Best 99 quotes of Janvier Chouteu-chando on MyQuotes

...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.

...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...

A man’s true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul,

A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.

At what point is normal natural?

Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent.

…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

Cameroon is not a country of slaves that no man can free.

Don’t be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people.

Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can’t directly influence things.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them stronger.

Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,

Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?

I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know or haven’t made the effort to understand.

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.

It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.

Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.

Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.

Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.

No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...

Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.

... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.