Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Swedish 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

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

African Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian 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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Chinese 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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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

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

German Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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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

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Russell, John

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.