Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Spanish Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

10.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Latin Proverb

13.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

14.

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

Keats, John

15.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

16.

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

Czech Proverb

17.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

18.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

19.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

20.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

25.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

26.

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

Russell, John

27.

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

Japanese Proverb

28.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

29.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

30.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

31.

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

German Proverb

32.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

33.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Chinese Proverb

36.

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

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Malayan Proverb

40.

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

Dutch Proverb

41.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

42.

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

French Proverb

43.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

44.

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

Sontag, Susan

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

48.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

49.

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