Blog on African Proverbs
You can become anything but don’t become comfortable anywhere. Vision is progressive. When you have vision, you are never comfortable anywhere notwithstanding the comfort -Femi Adediran, 2020 Every position, every top, every peak is only a passage for us. We…
The narrow way only allow for limited friends, limited pleasures, limited rest. Everything is limited on this way so that he who walks therein lead an unlimited life – Femi Adediran, 2020 And when all is said and done, it…
Your conviction(Your inner witness) is your conviction (Your judgment). We are as convicted as convinced – Femi Adediran, 2020. The wicked cannot forgive because he is too weak to do so. He can only do one thing: Revenge. Revenge make…
Battles of life cannot be wished away. You can only stand up to fight (for life) or sit down to die!- Femi Adediran, 2020 Some questions are better not answered, some answers are better not questioned . “Judas” is not…
To kill without drawing the sword is to actually live by the sword – Femi Adediran, 2020. Until the Apaniodas do their own killing, the physical sword is never effective. Until Judas did his own killing by betrayal, his boss…
The Easiest thing to do, is to find excuses, simply because excuses are everywhere! – Femi Adediran, June 2021. What eventually “unmake” us are the excuses that we “make”. Nobody can unmake you until you make excuses that give them…
If we all know what each of us is capable of, we will treat each other with more respect and dignity- Femi Adediran, June 2021. Every man/woman you meet is a possibility Every man/woman you meet is an access Every…
The laziest man is the physically strong but mentally weak. (Alagbara ma mo ero, baba ole ) An African adage It is good to be spiritually sound, but when your spiritual soundness is in variance with your mental capacity, you…
Our biggest challenge is not the noise in the marketplace but the noise within, which is far louder than the noise in the open market. If we are able to deal with our inner noise, the noise in the marketplace…
Books do not necessarily make us wise until we “learn” what we are reading – Femi Adediran, July 2021. Wisdom is simply our willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn whatever we think we know – Femi Adediran, July 2021. If…