Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

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

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

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Jewish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

10.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

11.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

12.

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

Jewish Proverb

13.

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

15.

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

Japanese Proverb

16.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

17.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

18.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

19.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

20.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Proverb

21.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

22.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

23.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

24.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

25.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Scandinavian Proverb

28.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

29.

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

Dutch Proverb

30.

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

Belgian Proverb

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

34.

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

Spanish Proverb

35.

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

Russell, John

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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb

38.

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

Spanish Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.