Saidi Mdala > Quotes

“Self-discipline is a continuous war against your whims.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Do not criticize – create. Do not complain – make things happen. Do not compare – set a personal record.”
― Saidi Mdala

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“The worst thing that can happen to you as a young person, is to refuse to grow up. You refuse to grow up when you believe that someone else must take responsibility for your life and life circumstances.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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!”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“When’ helps you make the most important step in your achievement – the first step!”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Today, with a cellphone, Internet connectivity and a name, you can know anything about anyone who ever did anything you are interested in.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Spiritual intelligence is like a vaccination against greed, arrogance and tyranny.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“If you want the world to take you seriously, be important. If you want to be important, solve problems.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“You become ill or attract illness or dis-ease into your life because you refuse to let your brain grow.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala

“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.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“We all, without exception, need relationships to achieve extraordinary things.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“People who do not set goals do not achieve them. They also achieve little else.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“The world of success favours only the seekers, not the needers and not even the deservers.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Sex is a powerful tool for harnessing cooperation as it is an agent of stubbornness and rebellion.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“If you want to be important, be the best you can. If you want a legacy, build it. If you want peace of mind, find it. If you cannot make it now, keep trying until you make it, and if you have not yet found what you want, keep searching.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“You do not get a better education, better results, better food, better allowances and – later in life – better salary, better working conditions or better life by demanding them from someone else.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Your whim wants you to speak when you must be paying attention and go mum when called to give a speech. Your whim whispers ‘sleep,’ when you should be burning the midnight oil and urges you to go and dance the night away when you should be recharging your batteries for school the next day. It says bum when you should be busting your bum.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Many people fail to do, have and become what they want to, because they never put a deadline on their dreams.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Your environment may and will affect you, but it does not condemn you to what you do not want to be.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters