Best 51 quotes of Saidi Mdala on MyQuotes

A lot of young people like to be paid attention to, praised and supported in everything. There is nothing wrong with this. However, anyone who has ever become anything worth writing home about has had to handle fire and brimstone with naked hands, wander in the wilderness and survive under severe limitations.

As you grow older, start using your brains, energy, and the means available to you, however little they may seem, to go after what you need to get better, so that you can have what you want to live the the life you desire.

Bad luck is what results when bad things happen to you unprepared, or when you neglect to do what you have to do when you are supposed to do it.

Be a woman of substance. That’s what you are and should always strive to be. You are neither a second rate citizen, nor a toy for the vultures. You are a representative of the whole human race. You have zero deficiency and should never waste your time trying to be equal, even, with men. There is a reason a country or continent is referred to as her and not him.

Being educated means being able to use what you learn to create possibilities and to provide options that lessen or eliminate pain from your life and that of others. Passing standardised tests in the classroom is just a small part of education.

Children who like fighting with their parents do so because they have them! Those who do not have parents or have only one, only wish for one thing – that they had them both.

Everyone around us, however nice and likable, will be unreasonable at one point or another. Everyone has an upside and a downside. If you want the most out of your relationships with others, manage the downside and nurture the upside.

Everyone you work with, in order to achieve a goal, must have something to lose if it is not realised and something to gain if it is realised. These are the people that are going to stick around you through thick and thin until the job is done.

First you must want it. You must want it so much, it hurts. You must want it so much that it hurts and causes you sleepless nights. And when you ever get to sleep, it brings you nightmares. This kind of wanting is called passion. It is an intense desire that burns so much you can hardly stand yourself.

Forcing yourself to do what matters over what does not, however simple; what is difficult, over what is not, however convenient; and what is right over what is bogus, however expedient, is self-discipline.

Greed kills your heart, arrogance kills your relationships and tyranny kills humanity.

Having a deadline piles pressure and pressure always begs to be released. People often act when there is pressure.

Holdups serve to help you learn more about what you are trying to achieve, push your boundaries and score a lot of small victories when you overcome all these unexpected hurdles.

I am sure you have come across older people who behave like children. They want everything, whine for attention, bitch about the smallest things and argue about virtually everything. They stopped growing up at some point but continued growing older.

If you get your relationships right, everything else will almost always be a given.

If you know enough people, you can never get stuck in life.

If you want the world to take you seriously, be important. If you want to be important, solve problems.

If you want freedom, go get it. If you want comfort, bust your backside for it. If you want change, create it. Better yet, be that change. If you want your dreams to come true, do not sleep. If you are not happy with your life, improve it.

In order for anything to happen you will have to act. Knowing is not enough. Neither is just being. Talking becomes annoying beyond a certain point. Doing makes all the difference. Doing converts thoughts into things. Doing turns talk into solutions and tangible results.

It does not matter how much you want something and how much skill, money or capacity you have to get it – if it does not exist, you will not get it or have it. Thank God, everything and anything you want in this world can be created.

It is by sharing their knowledge, skill and wealth that the wise turn mastery into art, kindness into reputation and, when they die, become immortal.

It is not natural for human beings to NOT grow to the next stage of life when they should.

It is not the ultimate achievement that makes you extraordinary; it is what you become on the way to that achievement that people celebrate. This is what fills 295 pages of your 300 page (auto)biography!

Many people fail to do, have and become what they want to, because they never put a deadline on their dreams.

No man can ever be half of what an average woman is. Men have known this since time immemorial. That’s why they have always denied women their rights!

Of course, you might be the first person to do something, but you are not the first person to do something for the first time.

Once a child is born, its main business is to grow – to learn all there is to learn and grow. It can only grow! Trees grow, vegetables grow, animals grow, and you must also grow.

People who do not set goals do not achieve them. They also achieve little else.

Remember also that fun does not come before work. I know people who like to rest or play more than they work, sometimes even before they have worked. Most of them are either always broke or dumb or both.

Self-discipline is a continuous war against your whims.

Sex has inspired the building of the most elegant cities with mind-boggling architecture that defies the imagination of the average thinker. It has also razed to rubble, whole cities and brought down unconquerable forts and powerful nations.

Sex is a powerful tool for harnessing cooperation as it is an agent of stubbornness and rebellion.

Spiritual intelligence is like a vaccination against greed, arrogance and tyranny.

Take care not to stray into the negative swamp of “what ifs?” These will bog you and your goals down. The only “what-if” you can ask yourself is this one: “What if I succeed?

The best time to learn to be grown-up is when you are growing up.

The brain grows when used to think, to read and to create possibilities.

The brain was made to grow and it grows by solving problems and seeking out higher values and setting goals to achieve those ideals.

The world of success favours only the seekers, not the needers and not even the deservers.

To be like every notable person you know, you must first want to become someone noteworthy. To achieve this, you must have something that gives you the status of noteworthiness. To have that something, you must be willing to do something worth noting.

Today, with a cellphone, Internet connectivity and a name, you can know anything about anyone who ever did anything you are interested in.

We all, without exception, need relationships to achieve extraordinary things.

What if your body grows older but your mind fails to grow you up? You now have a small boy or girl trapped in a grown person’s body.

When’ helps you make the most important step in your achievement – the first step!

When you start paying attention to good things, they will start growing in size and multiply in number.

Wherever is a place not yet established on planet Earth. Do not plan to take your ‘what’ there!

Why?’ is the reason it matters to try something in the first place.

You are the only person that can change your fortunes, and you are the only thing that can change.

You become ill or attract illness or dis-ease into your life because you refuse to let your brain grow.

You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth.

Your environment may and will affect you, but it does not condemn you to what you do not want to be.