Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Don't fall before you're pushed.

- English Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

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

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Russell, John

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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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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese 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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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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.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian 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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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

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Malayan 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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Worries go down better with soup than without.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

German Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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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

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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