Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

2.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

3.

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

Jewish Proverb

4.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

5.

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

6.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Chinese Proverb

9.

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

Oriental Proverb

10.

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

11.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

12.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

13.

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

15.

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

Swedish Proverb

16.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

17.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

18.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

22.

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

Chinese Proverb

23.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

24.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

25.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

26.

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

27.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

28.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

29.

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

30.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

African Proverb

33.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

34.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

35.

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