Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes

• There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Average, People, Mediocrity

  "My Odyssey: An Autobiography". Book by Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1970.

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• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Creativity, Essence, Soul

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria”, CUP Archive

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• The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Spiritual, Determination, Political

  "A Life of Azikiwe". Book by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey, 1965.

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• No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Time, Thinking, May

  "A Life of Azikiwe". Book by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey, 1965.

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• Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Blessed, People, Common

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “Zik: a selection from the speeches of Nnamdi Azikiwe”, CUP Archive

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• My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Country, Desire, Done

  Nnamdi Azikiwe's remarks on Nigerian Independence (October 1, 1960), as quoted in "Between then and now" by Olatunji Ololade at "The Nation Online", March 10, 2009.

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• It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Peace, Pieces

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• Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Horizon, Height, Limits

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• Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Fighting, Israel, People

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