African Wisdom Quotes

#1. You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it!

Steve Maraboli

#2. The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Stanley Crouch

#3. We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.

Yvonne Vera

#4. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

Paul Monette

#5. If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

Askhari Johnson Hodari

#6. If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Stanley Crouch

#7. Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#8. What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

Marcus Garvey

#9. If there is anything that I could get you to do, it would be to spend ten to fifteen minutes each morning planning your day. If I could get you to do that, you'd not only scare yourself, you'd intimidate everybody on your block.

Hyrum W. Smith

#10. There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

Marcus Garvey

#11. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT

Eddie Johnson

#12. There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

Lauren Oliver

#13. The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

Jose Mourinho

#14. Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.

Anonymous

#15. We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Dawkins

#16. Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gwendolyn Brooks

#17. Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Booker T. Washington

#18. It's an opportunity that's there for all of us, like a life raft or preserver to hang onto when there's nothing else or no one else around because man, we're human and no matter what, one way or another, everyone of us in our lives, at some point in time, are going to feel alone.

Chuck Ragan

#19. When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Angela Davis

#21. In West African and Caribbean folklores the role falls to Anansi, a spider who sometimes imparts knowledge or wisdom - and sometimes casts doubt or seeds confusion. Eshu,

Gabriella Coleman

#22. I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.

Michael Tolcher

#23. And the dress she was wearing, a highly inappropriate one that hugged her thighs a little too tightly, rose up an inch every time she took a step.

Whitney G.

#24. Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

Chinua Achebe