Inspirational Quotations

African Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Silence is talk too.
African Proverb

The heart is like a goat that has to be tied up.
African Proverb
Topics: Heart

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
African Proverb
Topics: Lies

Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
African Proverb

I own a cow in heaven, but I cannot drink her milk.
African Proverb
Topics: Heaven

He who has an egg in his pocket does not dance.
African Proverb
Topics: Dance

Those who live together cannot hide their behinds from each other.
African Proverb
Topics: Togetherness

Ashes fly back in the face of him that throws them.
African Proverb

To deny God’s existence is like jumping with your eyes closed.
African Proverb
Topics: Eyes

Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.
African Proverb
Topics: Home

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
African Proverb
Topics: Knowledge

When deeds speak, words are nothing.
African Proverb
Topics: Action, Words

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb
Topics: Adversity, Proverbs, Perseverance, Persistence

Haste has no blessing.
African Proverb
Topics: Blessings

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
African Proverb
Topics: Heart

If you destroy a bridge be sure you can swim.
African Proverb

One rooster can’t help another scratch the same piece of ground.
African Proverb
Topics: Help

Heaven and earth shall never meet.
African Proverb
Topics: Heaven

One cannot part two fighting bulls.
African Proverb
Topics: Fighting

If there is any profit in partnership, two will share a woman.
African Proverb
Topics: Profit

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers.
African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Questions

Marriage is like a groundnut: you have to crack them to see what is inside.
African Proverb
Topics: Marriage

If you are in hiding, don’t light a fire.
African Proverb

Looking at a king’s mouth one would never think he sucked his mother’s breast.
African Proverb
Topics: Kings

The path is made by walking.
African Proverb

Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.
African Proverb
Topics: Acceptance

A well educated man always has a kind word to say about the place where he spends the night.
African Proverb

Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs

If the dog is not at home, he barks not.
African Proverb
Topics: Home

Money is like a guest: it comes today, leaves tomorrow.
African Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow

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