One canoe which we are all in with no exception.

More Maori Proverbs

• When one chief disappears another is ready to appear. No one is indispensable.
• A white heron flies once.
• It would be better to let others praise.
• The totara has fallen in the forest of Tane.
• To rest on human support is unreliable, to rest on the earth is sure.
• My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul.
• For a woman and land, men perish.
• Without foresight or vision the people will be lost.
• He who stands lives; he who sits perishes.
• I am a seed which was sewn in the heavens of Rangiatea.
• When one house dies, a second lives.
• Like a dog follows his nose, man will find opportunity.
• Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
• The leader at the front and the workers behind the scenes.
• As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
• Don’t die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
• As an old net withers, another is remade.
• It is the octopus who says sitting is working.
• There is food at the end of my hands.
• Marry a man with calloused hands.
• Don’t die like an octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
• With red and black the work will be complete.
• Have two strings to your bow.
• A canoe which we are all in with no exception.
• An active person will remain healthy while a lazy one will become sick.
• My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, as it was not individual success but success of a collective.
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