Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Bulgarian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

10.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Spanish Proverb

14.

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

15.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

16.

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

17.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

18.

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Sontag, Susan

23.

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

Japanese Proverb

24.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

26.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

27.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

28.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

29.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

30.

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

Belgian Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

34.

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

Malayan Proverb

35.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb

36.

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

French Proverb

37.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

38.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

39.

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.

40.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

41.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Alger, William R.

44.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

45.

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

Joubert, Joseph

46.

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

47.

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

Keats, John

48.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

49.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

50.

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