Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Swedish Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

10.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

11.

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

Russell, John

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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

13.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

14.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

15.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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.

17.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

18.

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

Belgian Proverb

19.

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

Oriental Proverb

20.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

21.

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

Malayan Proverb

22.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

23.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Chinese Proverb

26.

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

German Proverb

27.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

28.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

29.

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

Japanese Proverb

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

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

Malayan Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

35.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

36.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

37.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

38.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

39.

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

Chinese Proverb

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

43.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

44.

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

Jewish Proverb

45.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

46.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

47.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

48.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street 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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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb