Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Jewish Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

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

Dutch Proverb

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin 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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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

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

Bulgarian 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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian 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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.