Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

10.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

11.

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

German Proverb

12.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

13.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

16.

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

Chinese Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

18.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish 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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

32.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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