Motivational Quotes

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

- Oriental Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Scandinavian Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

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

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

French Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

10.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

11.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

13.

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

Malayan Proverb

14.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

15.

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

16.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

17.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

18.

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

Chinese Proverb

19.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

20.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

21.

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

African Proverb

22.

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.

23.

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

Dutch Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Latin Proverb

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

28.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

29.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

30.

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

31.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

32.

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

34.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

35.

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

Alger, William R.

36.

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

Czech Proverb

37.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

38.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

39.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

40.

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

Japanese Proverb

41.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

Jewish Proverb

43.

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

44.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Russell, John

47.

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

Spanish Proverb

48.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

49.

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

Spanish Proverb

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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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