Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

French Proverb

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

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

Oriental Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian 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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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

20.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

24.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

25.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

26.

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

Irish 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

28.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

32.

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

Swedish 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 stay long when the husband is not at home.

Japanese 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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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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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

39.

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

Latin Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

41.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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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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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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

49.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.