3. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

4. If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

5. Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

6. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

7. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

8. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

9. If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

10. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

11. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

12. Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

13. Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

14. Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser

15. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

Most other countries and continents of
the world have their proverbs and wise
sayings. In Africa, it is the same and
African proverbs are the pride of the
African culture. From time immemorial,
African proverbs have been used to
convey messages during important
conversations. It is believed that these
such sayings come from the wise and
only the wise understands it. Over the
years, it has become associated with
the wise, the elderly and the grey
haired who pride themselves in the
knowledge of these proverbs and more
often than not, it is usually used to
advise a child or a youth as the advice
tends to stick more when the proverb
is understood. In most traditions in
Africa, it is usually atypical for one to
tell an African proverb and still be the
one to explain the meaning.

1. Only a fool tests the depth of a
river with both feet.

2. Knowledge is like a garden: If it
is not cultivated, it cannot be
harvested.
Meaning: If you don’t make efforts to
acquire knowledge then you would not
expect to have it and if you do not put
the knowledge you have to use, you
cannot expect to gain anything from it.

3. Sugarcane is sweetest at its
joint.
Meaning: Good and sweet things of live
may appear difficult to achieve but in
the end, it is worth it.

4. If you offend, ask for a pardon;
if offended forgive.
Meaning: This is as simple as it sounds:
If you upset someone, apologize to him
or her. If someone upsets you, forgive
him or her because what goes around,
comes around.

5. Don’t set sail using someone
else’s star.
Meaning: Avoid copying someone else.
Just because someone has been
successful in what he/she does should
not be what will make you to do the
same thing and expect to be
successful.

6. The best way to eat an elephant
in your path is cut him up into little
pieces.
Meaning: The best approach to solving
a problem is to take it bit by bit; one at
a time.

7. A restless feet may walk into a
snake pit.
Meaning: If someone is busy doing
nothing or is involved in what he does
noe know about, it is easy for him to
get into trouble.

8. A chick that will grow into a cock
can be spotted the very day it
hatches.
: You can easily foresee the
future of something through the
character and tell-tale signs it exhibits
today.

9. After a foolish deed comes
remorse.
Meaning: Feeling sorry always follows a
foolish act.

10. A man who pays respect to the
great paves the way for his own
greatness.
Meaning: What goes around, comes
around so whatever you sow, you shall
reap

11. He who does not know one
thing knows another.
Meaning: No one knows everything,
but everyone knows something.

12. A roaring lion kills no game.
Meaning: You cannot achieve or gain
anything by mere sitting around and
just talking about it.

13. Do not call the forest that
shelters you a jungle.
Meaning: Do not insult someone who is
capable of taking your responsibility or
taking care of you

14. When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.
What defines a man is the circumstances and people around him and if they are good, he turns out
good.

15. It takes a whole village to raise
a child.
Meaning: The society is responsible for
the moral characters it creates and
everyone in a community should be
responsible for helping to train a child
irrespective of who the parents are;
offering correction where they are
needed.

16. If a child washes his hands he
could eat with kings.
If you prepare and allow
yourself to be well trained when you
have the opportunity, you will achieve
a lot and be favored in due course.