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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb

Other quotes by African Proverb

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. – African Proverb

Category:
Decisions
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African Proverb
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Other Quotes from
Adversity
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

Category:
Adversity

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. – Coventry Patmore

Category:
Adversity

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. – Martin Luther

Category:
Adversity

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Adversity

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My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasnt when I started. – Andrew Sullivan

Category:
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Women didnt want to be on the stage with other women because they didnt want their bodies to be compared. They didnt want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude. – Kathleen Hanna

Category:
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Prisons dont rehabilitate, they dont punish, they dont protect, so what the hell do they do? – Jerry Brown

Category:
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Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. – Arthur Henderson

Category:
History