Olaotan Fawehinmi Quotes

“Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents and
purposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“The 'Dance of Love' is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step and the other carries it out. One determines the direction, the other determines the distance travelled in a given figure. One sets the pace, the other reveals the grace. One understands the language of the other and knows what is coming next. The one leading leads with love and respect; never seeing the follower as being weak or inferior. And in the same manner, the one following follows with Trust and Submission; never feeling too big to be led or scared to jump. There is a blind assurance that someone is there to catch.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.
It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“One of the very striking life lessons from Game of Thrones.

When Arya was blind; hopeless and helpless. The Waif lured her into multiple stick fights and the Waif would promptly beat Arya in every sparring match.

But through those stick fight, Arya learned to cope with her blindness and how to fight “in the dark.”

After Arya had regained her sight and Jaqen had granted the Waif’s wish to kill Arya. Arya confronted the Waif in a hideout and put out the only light in the room. Arya best the Waif due to her proficiency in fighting without sight (which, ironically, was trained by the Waif). Arya killed her adversary.

ONE THING ABOUT CHALLENGES IN LIFE IS: THROUGH THEM, WE LEARN HOW TO OVERCOME THEM. Always Pay Attention!”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within

“When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are."
When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.)

"We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“To be Outstanding is to do the same thing others have done in a different way.
But to STAND-OUT is to do what no one has ever done before.

Being outstanding is good, but STANDING-OUT is better.

So Dream, Explore, Discover, and Stand Out!!!”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.
Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“When we step in the name of love, we cannot rhyme if we don't have the same RHYTHM, and we cannot have the same rhythm if we are not listening to the same BEAT.

It takes someone who understands the rhythm and melody of your "heartbeat" to dance to it.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the "where" and "how"; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“DON'T DIE FOR ANYONE!!! You should rather live to love someone than die to prove it.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“If a man values you, then he does. How long you prolong 'the chase' may not necessarily add to or subtract from that. So if you love him and you know he loves you back, then please click the 'yes' bottom to his proposal. It is bad to love the wrong person, but worse to cheaply lose the one that loves you right.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“Character is like 'Structural Integrity' in the field of engineering.

A construction is believed to have structural integrity when it can withstand 'impact' from anywhere and anything, functioning adequately for its desired purposes and service life, until a physical collapse proves otherwise.

'Integrity' springs from the original Latin root 'integrum', which means "Intact".

A man has INTEGRITY when he remains INTACT, despite the IMPACT of forces that seek to sidetrack him.
He will never confuse "what is" with "what ought to be", EVEN WHEN "what is" will work in his favour.
A man who will choose, not what the world forces his hands to choose, but what aligns with his destiny and will propel him to become what he is meant to become.

Such men are few, such men should be me and you.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within

“And yes, many of us became fathers to fully understand what it means to be a father.

Albert Einstein once said: "Every man is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, it will spend the rest of its life believing that its stupid."

To the men who never let other people’s metrics of success become the yardstick with which they measure theirs. It is no coincidence that we are diagrammatically represented by a circle with an arrow on the edge that points out.

To all of us who may not always be "there" so that we can always "be there",

To every hunter, every fighter, every missionary,
To every planter and tiller of a garden of eden,
To every warrior, conqueror of territories, every man always going out so he can bring something home.

To every provider and protector of his family.
Every defender of his domain and representative of God in the lives of his dependants.

To every man that choose character over caliber,
Every Major General, Lord of the Rings,
Lion of the Tribe of his house.

To every correcter with a shout,
Every tough and tender 9-ribbed carrier of his cross.

For every skill, strength, qualification and effort that we put into building meaningful relationships with our women, bonds with our children, and shield through tough times.

For every ‘crave’ for success without substituting values.

For the unconditional love, unflinching sacrifice, and diehard determination to go places our parents never imagined for themselves.

To those who happily lead, as though money, fame and power didn’t exist.

To those who stand tall and sit straight,
Who understand that it doesn't take a 6-figure to be a Father figure.

Happy Father's Day to every man who understands the responsibility and deserves the title.

*Happy Father's Day to You and Me.*”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within

“Be the best friend to yourself until you find a best friend like yourself.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOOING your woman” should be a continuous process. It should NEVER end after you get your “yes” from her. If you did a lot to get her, you should do more to keep her.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“A Happy Love-Life happens to the one who works hard at what he KNOWS about it. In all thy getting, get Knowledge.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“Love ceases to be a Puzzle the Moment you find the Missing Piece.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“Sequel to Albert Einstein's quote "education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school," beauty is what remains inside a body after it has wrinkled.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.
We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.
Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?
For any seemingly "good" thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within

“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“To demonstrate is to show clearly & deliberately, and to describe is to give a detailed account in words.

That thing called 'Love' is defined when demonstrated, not when described.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

“They say "Life is short" but that is NOT true.
Life is endless and so is Time.
Both are in God's hands, immeasurable, and wait for no man.

It is actually “Living and Timing”, both measured by a Clock and a Calendar, that are short and will pass away. A man may live for 200 years, but that is still "short" compared to the endless Life and Time.

Like the path of a snake on the rock, so is Living without having Life and Timing without understanding Times & Seasons.

In Living and Timing, always remember that we will not always be here, so let’s make the BEST USE of WHAT we have WHEN we still have it.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within

“Every friendship is a relationship, but not every relationship has friendship in it.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...