Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Bulgarian Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Sontag, Susan

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

11.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

12.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

13.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

Japanese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

18.

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

Malayan Proverb

19.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

20.

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

Dutch Proverb

21.

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

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

Chinese Proverb

23.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

25.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

29.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek 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.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Hardy, Thomas

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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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

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

40.

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

Jewish Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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