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Identify Source of Problem
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.
Dream Big
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
No One is Born with Hate
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Togetherness is Good
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.
Tackling Problems from Sources
When the shadow of a tree is bent, straighten the tree not the shadow.
Bravery vs Cowardice
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
Black or White, all Races are Equal
A black cow, just like a white cow, produces white milk.
Support
If we stand tall, it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us.
Solutions should be Proportional to Problems
Do not respond to a mosquito with a hammer because you will miss and hurt yourself instead.
Leadership vs Domination
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
Negativity of the Chicken
A chicken eats corn, drinks water, swallows pebbles, yet she complains of having no teeth. If she had teeth, would she eat gold? Let her ask the cow who has teeth yet eats grass.
Patience
No matter how hungry you are, you can only eat your food one mouthful at a time.
Always Adapt to Survive
Eneke the bird says that since men have learnt to shoot without missing, he has learnt to fly without perching.
Fighting the Odds
Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.
Elderly have Deeper Insight
What the old man sees sitting down, the young man cannot see standing on a tree.