Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

- Baker, Nicholson

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

2.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

3.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

4.

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

5.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

6.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

7.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Jewish Proverb

8.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

9.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

10.

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Proverb

11.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

12.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

13.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

14.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

16.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

17.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

18.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

19.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

20.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

21.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Baker, Nicholson

22.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

23.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

24.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

25.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

26.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

27.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

28.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Chinese Proverb

30.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

31.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

32.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

33.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

34.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

35.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

37.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Russell, John

38.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Bulgarian Proverb

39.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

40.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

41.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Japanese Proverb

42.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

43.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

44.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

46.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

47.

A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

49.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

50.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb