Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Latin Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

10.

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.

11.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

12.

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

Chinese Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Dutch Proverb

16.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

17.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

18.

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

Japanese Proverb

19.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Jewish Proverb

21.

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

Russell, John

22.

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

Chinese Proverb

23.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

24.

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

Chinese Proverb

25.

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

Czech Proverb

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

28.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

29.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

30.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Irish Proverb

33.

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

French Proverb

34.

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

Japanese Proverb

35.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

36.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

37.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

38.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

39.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Jewish Proverb

43.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

44.

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

Swedish Proverb

45.

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

Keats, John

47.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

48.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.