Michael Bassey Johnson, Master Of Maxims Quotes

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.

Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning.

Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.

If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.

Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!

If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow.

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

When two persons are too close, they fall apart.

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.

The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.

Every temptation comes with a choice.

Every positive attempt was as a result of encouragement, every encouragement leads to success.

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions.

Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.

Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

Things you don't need in your life targets you the most.

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

There are things you need to know that you already know.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

Every Intelligent person was once a fool.

The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.

Bad people often end up as heroes.

Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.

A giver's purse can never be paused.

A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.

Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders.

Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

A young hero is the world's greatest attraction.

Start with a cry, end with a smile.

Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.