Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sontag, Susan

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

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

Alger, William R.

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

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

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

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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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

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

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

Swedish Proverb

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

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

Belgian Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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