In life you cannot make any kind of progress if you do not take risks. Also, the first steps must be made.

More Guyanese Proverbs

• When you make a decision you must be prepared to abide with the consequences.
• Those who are leading can see the danger ahead and are in a position to give advice.
• Sometimes you think that what you do or say nobody sees or hears, but yet your secrets are known.
• There is an opportunity for everyone and you must try to grasp it.
• Do not jump into a venture before you make sure that it is worthy.
• Lazy people wear out their pants and get nothing done.
• Although you tend to be ignored for the wrong things you do, you still have your conscience to deal with.
• You must not curse the place that you have come from, because sometime in the future you may have to return there.
• In life you cannot make any kind of progress if you do not take risks. Also, the first steps must be made.
• To fill a need you make do with anything at hand.
• Sometimes when you make yourself too kind your friends and associates will take advantage.
• Vexation will cure a problematic situation.
• When there is trouble, enemies are sometimes forced to get together to solve problems.
• If you waste your money it would be finished very quickly.
• You must see for yourself before you talk.
• It is no use crying over a mishap.
• You should be always prepared for disappointment or trouble.
• Things do not always turn out to be what you expect them to be.
• Everybody has to learn and find out what is good for himself or herself.
• Some things take a long time to be completed.
• When you are small you are insignificant, but when you become big you are strong and important.
• You have to take risks when you attempt new ventures.
• It is not everything you must take at face value.
• When you are made to feel ashamed, you wish you could disappear from the public’s eye.
• You should not go against the decision or choice of a person you feel is qualified to make the right choice.
• When a man is courting a woman, he is very concerned, kind and considerate, but when the novelty of the relationship is over, he finds faults and is unkind.
• When a mother is around, she keeps the family together, but when she dies the members of the family tend to scatter.