Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Chinese Proverb

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

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

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

Belgian 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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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

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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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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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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Spanish 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

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

German Proverb

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

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental 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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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese 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

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

Jewish Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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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