Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Latin Proverb

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

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

Russell, John

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

Alger, William R.

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

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish 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 employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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

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

Keats, John

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

Spanish Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian 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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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech 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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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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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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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.