200+ Quotes & Sayings By Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Johnson is the international bestselling author of thirty novels, including Prey for a Vampire, The Undead, and The Undead 2. He has also written the bestselling children's series, The Hunter Chronicles. His last novel was released in October 2014. Michael lives in Wisconsin with his wife and two daughters.

If you truly want to be respected by people you...
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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. Michael Bassey Johnson
True friends are those who came into your life, saw...
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True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. Michael Bassey Johnson
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth...
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You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste. Michael Bassey Johnson
True love is not a hide and seek game: in...
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True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other. Michael Bassey Johnson
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in...
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Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth. Michael Bassey Johnson
Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.
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Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth. Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can...
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Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you! Michael Bassey Johnson
Some men can love forever, some for six years, some...
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Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours. Michael Bassey Johnson
The more attention you give to your loved ones, the...
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The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them. Michael Bassey Johnson
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There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan. Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted...
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I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain. Michael Bassey Johnson
A person is wise if he listens to millions of...
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A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it. Michael Bassey Johnson
A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and...
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A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her. Michael Bassey Johnson
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge...
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No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have. Michael Bassey Johnson
Anything that comes your way by force was not meant...
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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. Michael Bassey Johnson
Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd...
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Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. Michael Bassey Johnson
Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to...
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Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal. Michael Bassey Johnson
Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired...
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Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you. Michael Bassey Johnson
The funny part of being funny is when you start...
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The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you. Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to...
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Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for Michael Bassey Johnson
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we...
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We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. Michael Bassey Johnson
The only way to educate oneself is by making books...
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The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion. Michael Bassey Johnson
There are things you need to know that you already...
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There are things you need to know that you already know. Michael Bassey Johnson
Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end...
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Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity. Michael Bassey Johnson
Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.
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Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss. Michael Bassey Johnson
Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring...
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Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down. Michael Bassey Johnson
Every Intelligent person was once a fool.
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Every Intelligent person was once a fool. Michael Bassey Johnson
There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No...
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There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets. Michael Bassey Johnson
People will walk in and walk out of your life,...
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People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out. Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody,...
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I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single. Michael Bassey Johnson
There are better people in the world, do not let...
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There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life. Michael Bassey Johnson
It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the...
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It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front. Michael Bassey Johnson
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It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity. Michael Bassey Johnson
The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare...
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The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best. Michael Bassey Johnson
If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd...
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If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree Michael Bassey Johnson
When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember...
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When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity. Michael Bassey Johnson
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't...
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Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another. Michael Bassey Johnson
Division and separation means no harm to the society. It...
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Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique. Michael Bassey Johnson
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel...
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A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind. Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter;...
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Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain. Michael Bassey Johnson
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
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Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents. Michael Bassey Johnson
Bad people often end up as heroes.
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Bad people often end up as heroes. Michael Bassey Johnson
Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.
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Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives. Michael Bassey Johnson
Gone are the days when women were attracted by a...
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Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed. Michael Bassey Johnson
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If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside. Michael Bassey Johnson
A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.
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A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector. Michael Bassey Johnson
Let your heart shine even more than your face. The...
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Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance. Michael Bassey Johnson
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When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love. Michael Bassey Johnson
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After or before any happiness, someone must cry. Michael Bassey Johnson
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When someone comes around at that dreary moment, when all hope was lost, and thorns emerged. And that fellow, walks on that thorn just to cross to your side, to bear the pains for your sake, to bleed, to self-destroy himself, just to protect you. He places you above his priorities, and doesn't give a damn whatsoever taunt he receives, his foremost desire is to make sure you are save, feel loved and cared for, and that's the true definition of love. Michael Bassey Johnson
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There comes a time when one suddenly discovers that there will never be a time for the coming of the perfect person, or believe that God sends people from heaven, so one finds a random fellow, either righteous or unrighteous, excellent or Impaired, and in no time become what God had ordained. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to  readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you. . Michael Bassey Johnson
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The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing. Michael Bassey Johnson
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People can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very hard to imitate the way you donate money. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord. Michael Bassey Johnson
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You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!   surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become. Michael Bassey Johnson
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A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting. Michael Bassey Johnson
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At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all. Michael Bassey Johnson
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POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS. Michael Bassey Johnson
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God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. Michael Bassey Johnson
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An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve. Michael Bassey Johnson
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A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction. Michael Bassey Johnson
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There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition. Michael Bassey Johnson
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You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you! Michael Bassey Johnson
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If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve. Michael Bassey Johnson
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There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in warmth, and a fortified confidence to be proud of. Michael Bassey Johnson
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When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it. Michael Bassey Johnson
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I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb. Michael Bassey Johnson
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When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person who can never be deformed. Michael Bassey Johnson
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A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Bring forth a spiritual idea that will never fade. Michael Bassey Johnson
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See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within. Michael Bassey Johnson
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These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin. Michael Bassey Johnson
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A young hero is the world's greatest attraction. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries. Michael Bassey Johnson