Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The best armor is to keep out of range.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Russell, John

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

Chinese Proverb

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chinese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

French Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

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

Japanese 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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese 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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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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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

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

Kurdish Proverb

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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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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish 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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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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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

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Dutch 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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.