Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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.

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

Chinese Proverb

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, John

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

12.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

13.

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

Japanese Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

20.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

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

Chinese 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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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

30.

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

Chinese Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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