By Onyekachi Victoria Philip
Few voices have consistently championed Africa’s potential, purposeful leadership and personal responsibility like Otunba (Dr.) Olawanle Akinboboye.
Over the years, the renowned tourism entrepreneur and cultural advocate has shared thought-provoking quotes that continue to inspire people to pursue excellence, embrace resilience and contribute meaningfully to society.
Famous Quotes of Otunba (Dr.) Olawanle Akinboboye
1. Africa as a continent will fail if Africans fail to discover Africa
2. Only a failure blame others for their failures
3. The seeds that eventually grow are those that were planted
4. Nobody can enslave you if you do not enslave yourself
5. Be more weary of weapons of mass distraction than weapons of mass destruction…choose your friends wisely
6. If you don’t take control of your life…life will take control of you
7. If something does not occur to you, it might be right under your nose but you will not smell it
8. When you tell people you are taller than you are, you open yourself to ridicule
9. In life the real things that count the most cannot be counted
10. If the going is easy…you are probably going downhill
11. The Only people that make progress in life are those that can deal with difficult people/situations
12. What truly belongs to you? YOU and only when you are alive
13. Show me what you have done before you tell me what to do
14. Success is hard…. Succession plan is harder
15. True friends are those that run in when everybody runs out
16. If you think you can or you think you cannot, you are absolutely right
17. Success is usually packaged in CANs and failures in CANTs
18. Let everybody worry about your mistakes you just learn from them
19. The only meaningful life is life spent in service of others
20. Pain is a confirmation of life only the living feel it
21. The more failures you experience, the more lively that you will succeed in life
22. There is definitely a lesson to learn when you fail to learn
23. What you have and don’t use is what limits you not what you don’t have
24. Risk has two options only… win or fail… You win,you lead OR you fail,you teach