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“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

— Ovid

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Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

— Ovid

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

Ovid Quote: “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

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1. “If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Quotes About Stories, Understanding Quotes

2. “Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

3. “There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

— Chinua Achebe

4. “Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Experience Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Individuality Quotes

5. “As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.”

— Chinua Achebe

6. “The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.”

— Chinua Achebe

7. “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.”

— Chinua Achebe

8. “One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

— Chinua Achebe

9. “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Thought Provoking Quotes, Quotes About Stories

10. “When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Thought Provoking Quotes

11. “My weapon is literature.”

— Chinua Achebe

12. “People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.”

— Chinua Achebe

13. “When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.”

— Chinua Achebe

14. “An angry man is always a stupid man.”

— Chinua Achebe

15. “The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Thought Provoking Quotes

16. “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.”

— Chinua Achebe

17. “When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate.”

— Chinua Achebe

18. “The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”

— Chinua Achebe

19. “We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.”

— Chinua Achebe

20. “An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.”

— Chinua Achebe

21. “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

22. “Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.”

— Chinua Achebe

23. “Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache.”

— Chinua Achebe

24. “When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.”

— Chinua Achebe

25. “When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.”

— Chinua Achebe

26. “While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”

— Chinua Achebe

27. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. – W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming.”

— Chinua Achebe

28. “I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.”

— Chinua Achebe

29. “There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.”

— Chinua Achebe

30. “Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

— Chinua Achebe

31. “You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.”

— Chinua Achebe

32. “A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?”

— Chinua Achebe

33. “There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.”

— Chinua Achebe

34. “Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.”

— Chinua Achebe

35. “The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”

— Chinua Achebe

36. “The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.”

— Chinua Achebe

37. “There is no story that is not true.”

— Chinua Achebe

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

38. “There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”

— Chinua Achebe

39. “Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.”

— Chinua Achebe

40. “Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.”

— Chinua Achebe

41. “When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth.”

— Chinua Achebe

42. “When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.”

— Chinua Achebe

43. “Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”

— Chinua Achebe

44. “Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.”

— Chinua Achebe

45. “You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.”

— Chinua Achebe

46. “Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit – in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.”

— Chinua Achebe

47. “A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.”

— Chinua Achebe

48. “The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.”

— Chinua Achebe

49. “If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.”

— Chinua Achebe

50. “People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”

— Chinua Achebe

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