Top 20 Inspirational, Motivational Proverbs, Quotes & Sayings

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"The forest not only hides man's enemies but its full of man's medicine, healing power and food."

Ghana

#enemies, #Food, #foodstuff, #Forest, #Man, #Medicine, #power

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"When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers."

Ghana

#Elephant, #elephants, #Fight, #Grass, #Suffer

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"An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."

Ghana

#defeat, #Leadership, #led, #Lion, #lions, #Sheep, #unite, #Unity

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"Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested."

Ghana

#Cannot, #Cultivate, #Garden, #Harvest, #Knowledge, #Not

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"In every village, there is a white chicken."

Congo African Tribe Proverbs: Swahili Tribe

#Chicken, #Village, #White

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"He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad man himself."

Nigeria

#Better, #Dance, #Drum, #drumbeat, #Himself, #Mad, #Man

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"A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother."

Ghana

#Beauty, #Child, #Laugh, #Mother, #Ugly

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"No matter how hungry the lion is, he will never eat grass."

Nigeria

#Discipline, #Eat, #Food, #Grass, #Hungry, #Never, #No Matter

Source: Movies - In Your Heart - Ruth Kadiri 247 - YouTube Channel -

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"A man who swallows a whole coconut has a complete faith in his anus."

Nigeria African Tribe Proverbs: Igbo (ibo) Tribe

#Anus, #Coconut, #complete, #faith, #Man

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"It is the grass that suffers when elephants fight."

Kenya African Tribe Proverbs: Kikuyu Tribe

#Elephant, #Fight, #Grass, #Suffer

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"The Rain does not fall on one roof."

Nigeria

#Fall, #Problems, #Rain, #Raining, #Roof, #Trouble

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"Rain does not fall on one roof alone."

Cameroon

#Alone, #Fall, #One, #Problems, #Rain, #Roof, #Trouble

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"Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it."

Ghana African Tribe Proverbs: Akan Tribe

#embrace, #Individual, #No one, #Tree, #Wisdom, #Wise

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"The death of a lion cannot be announced by a goat."

Nigeria African Tribe Proverbs: Igbo (ibo) Tribe

#announce, #Announcement, #Cannot, #Goat, #Lion

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"When elephants fight, the grass gets hurt."

Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania African Tribe Proverbs: Swahili Tribe

#Elephant, #elephants, #Grass, #Hurts, #Suffer

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"Rain beats the leopard's skin but it does not wash out the spots."

Ghana African Tribe Proverbs: Akan Tribe, Ashanti Tribe, Fanti Tribe

#Beat, #Leopard, #Rain, #Skin

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"When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled."

Kenya, Tanzania African Tribe Proverbs: Kikuyu Tribe

#elephants, #Fight, #fighting, #Fights, #Grass, #Helplessness, #Suffer, #War

Source: Events/Interviews - In the 1970s Julius Nyerere (then the President of Tanzania) used this proverb in a speech at the United Nations in New York. -

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"A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches."

Nigeria

#Chicken, #Day, #Grow, #Hatch

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"When the webs of the spider join, they can trap a lion."

Ethiopia

#Joint, #Lion, #spider, #trap, #unite, #Unity, #webs

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"A man who hangs around a beautiful girl without saying a word ends up fetching water for guests at her wedding."

Nigeria African Tribe Proverbs: Igbo (ibo) Tribe

Top 20 Inspirational, Motivational Proverbs, Quotes & Sayings

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Tanzania

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South Africa

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Madagascar

Top Proverbs Countries:

Nigeria

Ind. Day: October 1, 1960

Colonial Ruler: Britain

Ghana

Ind. Day: March 6, 1957

Colonial Ruler: Britain

Kenya

Ind. Day: December 12, 1963

Colonial Ruler: Britain

Tanzania

Ind. Day: April 26, 1964

Colonial Ruler: Britain

Congo

Ind. Day: August 11, 1960

Colonial Ruler: French

South Africa

Ind. Day: December 11, 1931

Colonial Ruler: Britain

Zimbabwe

Ind. Day: April 18, 1980

Colonial Ruler: Britain

Madagascar

Ind. Day: June 26, 1960

Colonial Ruler: France