Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Alger, William R.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

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

Japanese Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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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

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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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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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

African Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Swedish 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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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

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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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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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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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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