Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish 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.

Malayan Proverb

12.

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

Latin Proverb

13.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

15.

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

Spanish Proverb

16.

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

African Proverb

18.

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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

21.

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

22.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

23.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

24.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

25.

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

Swedish Proverb

26.

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

Malayan Proverb

27.

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

German Proverb

28.

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

Jewish Proverb

29.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

30.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

31.

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

Latin Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Irish Proverb

34.

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

35.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

36.

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

Chinese Proverb

37.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

38.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

39.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

40.

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

Alger, William R.

41.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

42.

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

Chinese Proverb

43.

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

Chinese Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

47.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

48.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.