Jelani K. Asantewa Originals List
Quotes
Don't mistake teaching for criticism.
JKA
7-17- 2025 / RECORDED
Your day is what you make of it. Make it wonderful!
JKA
7-2025 / RECORDED
To Do List are never-ending. Don't berate yourself on things undone. Congratulate yourself on things accomplished!
JKA
7-2025
Ugly words and deeds transform ones looks into an outwardly reflection of the ugliness within.
JKA
7-2025
Poverty is the best jail cell of all.
JKA
7-2025
Poverty is the universe's biggest prank.
JKA
7-2025
No is not a mean word. To the contrary, it is a kind savior of future: time, safety, trust, embarrassment, disappointment and angst.
JKA
7-2025
When a project gives you trouble: Step back. Take a break, have a snack, take a nap. When you are refreshed ~ the answer will come to you.
Jelani K. Asantewa
7-2025
Speaking while angry is tantamount to speaking while drunk!
JKA
7-2025
When you are lost in the mountains with only friends and no food... some decisions are hard.
JKA
7-2025
Youth make stupid mistakes... Adults too, make stupid mistakes - when they forget all the stupid mistakes they made as youth.
JKA
7-2025
True charity is when you give someone something and do not feel compelled to tell the world you did it.
8-30-2025
True charity is when you do something for someone and you don't feel compelled to tell the whole world you did it.
Life is possibly the hardest, most enlightening college course you'll ever take.
Jelani K. Asantewa
7-2025
Remember the good times, as well as the bad, because in the moment, it may seem that there are only bad.
JKA
7-2025
Think before you grab for that cheese. It may cost you your life, or at the very least your livelihood or your dignity!
Jelani K. Asantewa
7-2025
Quotes are not just witty words, they are lives lived... observations, experiences, feelings, and knowledge shared.
7-17-2025
Leave me alone... I'm multi tasking Biotch
JKA
7-17-2025
Beware... To get to know a person is to get to know their flaws.
JKA
7-2025
You never see a spider webs until you have guest.
8-20-2025} WORDS ARE TRICKY THINGS - USED}8-22-25
MINE: "Always stay ten steps ahead, because once you fall behind it is at the least painful, if not impossible, to catch up." JKA
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Don't close doors by being a know it all.
JKA
Be: who you are. Be like them. Be who they think you are or be who they want you to be. Pick your lane!
JKA
Don't miss out on opportunity by only taking the advice of "professionals".
JKA
Show me, don't tell me.
JKA
The best apology you can give is not to commit the offense again.
JKA
Love is more than a spoken word... it is an action.
JKA
Money can easily turn love into hate.
JKA
8-25-2025
First draft: Words are hollow containers that must be filled with actions. (Me: 8-25-2025)
Second: Words are empty vessels that must be filled with actions.
Third: Words are empty (containers) (vessels) that are waiting be filled with actions. 8-30-2025