Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Latin Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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

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

Malayan Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Russell, John

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

10.

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

Spanish Proverb

11.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

12.

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

Chinese Proverb

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

15.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

16.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

17.

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

Chinese Proverb

18.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

19.

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

Swedish Proverb

20.

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

Scottish Proverb

21.

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

22.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

23.

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

Chinese Proverb

24.

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

Jewish Proverb

25.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

26.

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

Morely, John

27.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

28.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

29.

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

Belgian Proverb

30.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Keats, John

32.

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

Irish 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

34.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

35.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

36.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

37.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

38.

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

Swedish Proverb

40.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

43.

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

Alger, William R.

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

Jewish Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.