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Happiness requires something to do, something
to love and something to hope for.
Source: Swahili
Haste and hurry can only bear children with many regrets along
the way.
Source: Senegalese
Having a good discussion is like having riches.
Source: African
He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.
Source: Ashanti
He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for
you.
Source: Senegalese
He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers.
Source: Cameroonian
He who does not know one thing knows another.
Source: Kenyan
He who doesn't feel jealousy is not in love.
Source: African
He who fears the crying of a child, will cry himself.
Source: Swahili
He who fears the sun will not become chief.
Source: Ugandan
He who forgives ends the quarrel.
Source: African
He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.
Source: African
He who is born a fool is never cured.
Source: African
He who is destined for power does not have to fight for it.
Source: Ugandan
He who learns, teaches.
Source: African
He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.
Source: African
He who loves, loves you with your dirt.
Source: Ugandan
He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense.
Source: African
He who walks in front gives you wisdom.
Source: Ugandan
He whose refuses to obey cannot command.
Source: Kenyan
If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother
to go alone to the market to buy things for her.
Source: Nigerian
If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings.
Source: African
If a leader limps, all the others start limping, too.
Source: Kenyan
If a leader loves you, he makes sure you build your house on
rock.
Source: Ugandan
If a mother steals with a child strapped in the back what do
you expect of the child.
Source: African
If anybody makes you laugh, it is not always because he loves
you.
Source: Kikuyu
If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy.
Source: Cameroonian
If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together
again.
Source: Malagasy
If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?
Source: Tunisian
If the owner of the land leads you, you cannot get lost.
Source: Ugandan
If there is cause to hate someone, the cause to love has just
begun.
Source: Wolof
If two wise men always agree, then there is no need for one
of them.
Source: Zambian
If you are a leader, be like the moon, not like the sun.
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