{"id":295752,"date":"2022-10-28T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/10-deep-african-proverbs-that-will-touch-your-life"},"modified":"2022-10-28T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:43:48","slug":"10-deep-african-proverbs-that-will-touch-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/10-deep-african-proverbs-that-will-touch-your-life","title":{"rendered":"10 Deep African Proverbs That Will Touch Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nImage coverImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/wp-content\/images\/post\/user-799\/pzhrza.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">Undoubtedly, Africa is a continent that hosts the people with the greatest working discipline in the world. The oppression and colonization on this continent for centuries brings with it feelings that are difficult to express and very different life motivations for these people. So much so that I am of the opinion that these motivations directly affect their lives and that the reflections of the life they live contain very valuable teachings for us. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve compiled a few African proverbs that deeply affected me.<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nThreedots\">&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>1)<\/b> \u201cUnless lions write their own stories, we have to listen to hunters&#8217; stories.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>2)<\/b> \u201cThere is no winner in a fight between a lion and an ant.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>3)<\/b> \u201cEven a little rain can fill the rivers every day.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>4)<\/b> \u201cWhen a big tree falls, a goat eats its leaves.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>5)<\/b> \u201cSmoke does not only affect honeybees; It also affects the honey gatherer.\u201d<\/div>\n<div id=\"empty-line\" class=\"nText \"><b>6)<\/b> \u201cIf you think you are too small to be noticed, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>7)<\/b> \u201cOnly a fool tests the depth of water with both feet.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"nImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/wp-content\/images\/post\/user-799\/88afbi.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>8)<\/b> \u201cAs the water rises, the fish eat the ants, and as the water recedes, the ants eat the fish. No one should rely on their present superiority&#8230; because the flow of water decides who eats whom.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>9)<\/b> \u201cWhatever the color of our face and eyes, the color of our tears is the same.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\"><b>10)<\/b> \u201cEvery morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up,<br \/>\nHe knows he must run faster than the fastest lion or he will die.<br \/>\nEvery morning in Africa a lion wakes up,<br \/>\nIt knows it has to run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter if you are a lion or a gazelle.<br \/>\nJust know that when the sun comes up you have to run.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undoubtedly, Africa is a continent that hosts the people with the greatest working discipline in the world. The oppression and colonization on this continent for centuries brings with it feelings that are difficult to express and very different life motivations for these people. So much so that I am of the opinion that these motivations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":136619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17691,17213],"tags":[20993,20989,20992,21048,20988],"class_list":["post-295752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivation","category-quotes","tag-ada-en","tag-dil-en","tag-dunya-en","tag-hikaye-en","tag-motivasyon-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}