Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

- Greek Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

African 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

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Irish Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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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.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

30.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Sontag, Susan

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.