Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

He who would leap high must take a long run.

- Danish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Latin Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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.

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

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

Chinese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

11.

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

12.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Jewish Proverb

16.

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

Swedish Proverb

17.

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

Irish Proverb

18.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

19.

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

Keats, John

20.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

21.

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

Jewish Proverb

22.

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

23.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

24.

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

25.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

26.

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

Alger, William R.

27.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

28.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

29.

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

Swedish Proverb

30.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

31.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

32.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

33.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

34.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

35.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

36.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

Dutch Proverb

38.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.