Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian 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

10.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

11.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

12.

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

Chinese Proverb

13.

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

15.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

18.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Russell, John

21.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

22.

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

Japanese Proverb

23.

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

24.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

25.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

26.

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

Scottish Proverb

27.

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

Oriental Proverb

28.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Malayan Proverb

31.

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

Jewish Proverb

32.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

33.

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.

34.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

38.

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

Chinese Proverb

39.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

40.

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

German Proverb

41.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

42.

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

43.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Scandinavian Proverb

44.

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

Spanish Proverb

45.

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

Japanese Proverb

46.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

49.

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

Belgian Proverb

50.

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