120+ African proverbs about life, love, woman. beauty and togetherness

African proverbs about life

Life is like a mirror if you fawn it, it fawns back and if you smile, it smiles.

Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs. -African Proverb
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. -African Proverb
Arriving and leaving, hoping and remembering, that's what life consists of.- Haitian Proverb.
Success in life largely depends on how you handle your failures.
Life is like a boat you move on when you paddle and stay in the same place if not.
He who learns, teaches. -African Proverbs
If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? -Tunisia
If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended forgive. -African Proverb
There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns. - African Proverb.
Children are the reward of life.- Congolese Proverb.
It is not what you are called, but what you answer to. -African Proverb
Life has always been a mixture of joy and pain, wealth and poverty.- Dominican Proverb
Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river.- Liberia Proverb
Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more.
The coffin seller wants a long life for himself and a short life for others..
God has created lands with lakes and bountiful rivers for man to live. And the wide deserts so that he can find his soul.- Tuareg Proverb.

Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly. - African proverb
He who loves the vase loves also what is inside. -African Proverb
Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that
remains constant in his hands.- Nigeria
Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. -South Africa
One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside.
A letter from the heart can be read on the face. Kenya
It is better to be loved than feared.
Coffee and love taste best when hot. — Ethiopian proverb
Love doesn’t rely on physical features.
Love is a despot who spares no one. Namibia
Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. –Madagascar Proverb
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. -Malagasy Proverb.

A woman's polite devotion is her greatest beauty.- African Prover
The laughter of a child is the light of a house. - African Proverb
A woman is never old when it comes to the dance she knows.
The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.- African Proverb
A woman who pursues a man for sex looses her spiritual beauty.
Where a woman rules, stream run uphill.
No matter how big a child is, he cannot deny that he was once carried on the back of a woman.

A united family eats from the same plate. - Kiganda Proverb
So many little things makes a man love a woman in a big way. - Ghanian Proverb
A real family eats the same cornmeal. - African Proverbs
A father never resembles his son, it's the son that resembles the father. - African Proverb
A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter. - African Proverb
Even the maid has a family.- South African Proverb
Marriage has teeth and it bites hard. - Jamaican Proverb
A family name is not cooked and eaten, one's life is the thing. -Nigerian Proverb
If you educate a man you educate one individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family. -Fanti Proverb.

If you want beauty, you must be injured.- Swahili Proverb
Beauty widout grace like rose widout smell. -Jamaican Proverb
Beauty is an empty calabash.- Cameroonian Proverb
Beauty and folly are constant companions. - Costa Rican Proverb
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.- Congolese Proverb
Beauty and folly are constant companions. - Costa Rican Proverb
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.- Congolese Proverb
There is always a winner even in a monkey's beauty contest.- African Proverb
Even the colours of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.- Nigerian Proverb
Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening. -African Proverb
If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.- Nigerian Proverb
A man possesses beauty in his quality and a woman possesses quality in her beauty.- Cuban Proverb
Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone. - Nigerian proverb.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
Leadership does not depend on age.
The humble pay for the mistakes of their leaders.
If a leader loves you, he makes sure you build your house on rock
The one nearest to the enemy is the real leader
A canoe does not know who the leader is – when it turns over everyone gets wet.
He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.- Malawi Proverb.
African proverbs about strength
Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Ghanaian Proverb.
He who has travelled alone can tell what he likes. - Rwandan Proverbs
Even the best dancer on the stage must retire sometime. African Proverb
What is said over the dead lion’s body could not be said to him alive.