23 Quotes About Nation Building

Human nature is a tricky thing. There is a lot of good out there, but there is also a lot of bad. And it can be so easy to forget that bad people exist, even when we see them every day. Sometimes we have to step outside of our comfort zones and remind ourselves what’s truly important Read more

As a nation, we must remember our values as a people. We must not forget that as long as there is life, there will be war, hatred, and murder. It’s important to remember that with great power comes great responsibility.

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What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermined when they that are responsible for shaping the best in us are always undermined! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn books but life! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn moral principles, but they shall be living examples of moral principles I stand for a different education: a different education where students don’t just understand what they learn, but practice what they learn with understanding! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn about people of different beliefs, culture and backgrounds, but how to live with people who don’t share common perspective with them and know how to show their emotions of bitterness and misunderstanding rightly! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will be perfect ambassadors’ of God on earth and live their daily lives with all due diligence! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand why we all breathe the same air, sleep and wake up each day in the same manner to continue the journey of life! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will learn with inspiration even in their desperations! I stand for a different education: a different education where teachers are seen as true epitome of education! I stand for a different education: a different education in which the value of the teacher is well understood and the teacher is well valued as a treasure! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn, but they will reproduce great and noble things with what they learn! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand the real meaning of integrity and responsibility and with true courage and humility be that as such! I stand for a different education: a different education where education means creativity! Education is the spine of every nation! The better the education, the better the nation! The mediocre the education, the mediocre the nation! A good nation is good because of how education has shaped the perspective and understanding of the populace! A nation that does not know where it is heading towards must ask the machine that produces the populace who drive the nation: education! Until we fix our education, we shall always have a wrong education and we shall always see a wrong nation! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermined when they that are responsible for shaping the best in us are always undermined! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn books but life! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn moral principles, but they shall be living examples of moral principles. I stand for a different education: a different education where students don’t just understand what they learn, but practice what they learn with understanding! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn about people of different beliefs, culture and backgrounds, but how to live with people who don’t share common perspective with them and know how to show their emotions of bitterness and misunderstanding rightly! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will be perfect ambassadors’ of God on earth and live their daily lives with all due diligence! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand why we all breathe the same air, sleep and wake up each day in the same manner to continue the journey of life! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will learn with inspiration even in their desperations! I stand for a different education: a different education where teachers are seen as true epitome of education! I stand for a different education: a different education in which the value of the teacher is well understood and the teacher is well valued as a treasure! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn, but they will reproduce great and noble things with what they learn! I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand the real meaning of integrity and responsibility and with true courage and humility be that as such! I stand for a different education: a different education where education means creativity! Education is the spine of every nation! The better the education, the better the nation! The mediocre the education, the mediocre the nation! A good nation is good because of how education has shaped the perspective and understanding of the populace! A nation that does not know where it is heading towards must ask the machine that produces the populace who drive the nation: education! Until we fix our education, we shall always have a wrong education and we shall always see a wrong nation! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The idea is to change the nature and value system...
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The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole Sunday Adelaja
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They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him. . Graham Greene
It has often been our best instincts, not our worst,...
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It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world Rosa Brooks
When the president during the campaign said he was against...
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. Al Franken
Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs...
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Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders. Abhijit Naskar
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If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world. Vishwas Chavan
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A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come. Fela Durotoye
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Sacrifice has great value in that it not only achieves personal success but builds successful communities, nations and humanity. Each moment spent in selfless sacrifice makes you a stronger person, and such strength fosters the required determination to cope with adversity and hardship for the sake of others. Vishwas Chavan
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â€â€¹On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction. Abhijit Naskar
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Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country. Idowu Koyenikan
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We love to quote the saying “Rome was not built in a day” but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn’t happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day. Nana Awere Damoah
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There is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country. Jamsetji Tata
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Hollow slogans like "Making your country great again" only lead to one result, collapse. Paul Levitz
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Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else Fela Durotoye
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Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens. Abhijit Naskar
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For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again. James Bryce
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No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated. Abhijit Naskar
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There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking! Fela Durotoye
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What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies Fela Durotoye