Inspirational Proverbs
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Who is everywhere is nowhere.
Swedish Proverb
A man who chases two rabbits catches none.
Roman Proverb
Per aspera ad astra!
Through difficulties to the stars!
Latin Proverb
Nulli secundus
Second to none.
Latin Proverb
Dum vita est, spes est
While there's life, there's hope.
Latin Proverb
Nil desperandum
Never despair.
Latin Proverb
Aut vincere aut mori
Either to conquer or to die.
Latin Proverb
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (Hannibal)
I'll either find a way or make one.
Latin Proverb
Faber est quisque fortunae suae
Every man is architect of his own fortune.
Latin Proverb
Si vis amari, ama (Annaeus Seneca, a.k.a. Seneca the Elder,
Epistularum Moralium Ad Lucilium)
If you wish to be loved, love.
Latin Proverb
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The way from earth to the stars is not peaceful.
Latin Proverb
Ipsa scientia potestas est (Sir Francis Bacon)
Knowledge itself is power.
Latin Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Don't set sail on someone else's star.
African Proverb
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
African Proverb
A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut
of the tongue does not.
African Proverb
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
African Proverb
It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.
African Proverb
A chattering bird builds no nest.
African Proverb
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
African Proverb
When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the
well, but few will be ready to go down after it.
African Proverb
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
African Proverb
A little impatience will spoil great plans.
Chinese Proverb
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
Chinese Proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb
A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a
song.
Chinese Proverb
A book holds a house of gold.
Chinese Proverb
Talk does not cook rice.
Chinese Proverb
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.
Chinese Proverb
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
Chinese Proverb
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time
with an inch of gold.
Chinese Proverb
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
American Proverb
Good weight and measure, are heaven's treasure.
American Proverb
If you desire many things, many things will be seem but a few.
American Proverb
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
American Proverb
Wishes won't wash dishes.
American Proverb
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
American Proverb
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
American Proverb
Necessity never made a good bargain.
American Proverb
Here today, gone tomorrow.
American Proverb
Variety is the spice of life.
American Proverb
From little acorns mighty oaks do grow.
American Proverb
Hope is a good breakfast, but a poor supper.
American Proverb
A good neighbour is better than a brother far off.
Danish Proverb
Break one link and the whole chain falls apart.
Danish Proverb
"It will come back," said the man, when he gave his sow pork.
Danish Proverb
A slip of the foot may soon be recovered; but that of the tongue
perhaps never.
Danish Proverb
Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Danish Proverb
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Danish Proverb
A crowd is not company.
Danish Proverb
It is best to be on the safe side.
Danish Proverb
A fool only wins the first game.
Danish Proverb
Keep your nose out of another's mess.
Danish Proverb
A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
Danish Proverb
Better a little furniture than an empty house.
Danish Proverb
Many hands make light work.
English Proverb
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
English Proverb
A bad penny always turns up.
English Proverb
Grasp no more than thy hand will hold.
English Proverb
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
English Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
English Proverb
You are never to old to learn.
English Proverb
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired.
English Proverb
A stumble may prevent a fall.
English Proverb
If you want to judge a man's character, give him power.
English Proverb
If wishes were horses beggars might ride.
English Proverb
The future is purchased by the present.
French Proverb
A clear conscience is a good pillow.
French Proverb
A friend is known in time of need.
French Proverb
A healthy man is a successful man.
French Proverb
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
French Proverb
Bear with evil and expect good.
French Proverb
A stitch in time saves nine.
French Proverb
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
French Proverb
Learning is there for every man.
French Proverb
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
French Proverb
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
French Proverb
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
French Proverb
He who begins many things finishes but few.
Italian Proverb
Anger can be an expensive luxury.
Italian Proverb
Better give a penny then lend twenty.
Italian Proverb
Give time time.
Italian Proverb
Necessity becomes will.
Italian Proverb
The habit doesn't make a monk.
Italian Proverb
One who sleeps doesn't catch fish.
Italian Proverb
Silence was never written down.
Italian Proverb
The liar needs a good memory.
Italian Proverb
He who does not when he can, cannot when he will.
Italian Proverb
Better one day as a lion than a hundred as a sheep.
Italian Proverb
A good retreat is better than a bad stand.
Irish Proverb
Time is a great story teller.
Irish Proverb
The work praises the man.
Irish Proverb
There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Irish Proverb
A change of work is as good as a rest.
Irish Proverb
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
Japanese Proverb
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
Japanese Proverb
Let what is past flow away downstream.
Japanese Proverb
Adversity is the foundation of virtue.
Japanese Proverb
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
Japanese Proverb
You can know ten things by learning one.
Japanese Proverb
Ten men, ten minds.
Japanese Proverb
When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well.
Japanese Proverb
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb
Better to be a crystal and to be broken, than to be a tile upon the
housetop.
Japanese Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb
Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
Japanese Proverb
There are no national frontiers to learning.
Japanese Proverb
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
Korean Proverb
Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.
Korean Proverb
Even if the sky falls on you, there is a hole that you can escape from.
Korean Proverb
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Korean Proverb
A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.
Korean Proverb
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
Korean Proverb
Put off for one day and ten days will pass.
Korean Proverb
Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.
Korean Proverb
A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle.
Korean Proverb
Gossip needs no carriage.
Russian Proverb
Praise loudly, blame softly.
Russian Proverb
Acknowledgement is half of correction.
Russian Proverb
A kind word is like a Spring day.
Russian Proverb
He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
Russian Proverb
Every road has two directions.
Russian Proverb
A small link will sink a great ship.
Russian Proverb
Failure teaches you more than success.
Russian Proverb
Every seed knows its time.
Russian Proverb
Take time to smell the roses.
Russian Proverb
Success and rest don't sleep together.
Russian Proverb
You don't get something for nothing.
Russian Proverb
To the grateful man give more than he asks.
Spanish Proverb
A fifth wheel to a cart is but an encumbrance.
Spanish Proverb
A tired person can sleep anywhere.
Spanish Proverb
For a good appetite there is no hard bread.
Spanish Proverb
The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook.
Spanish Proverb
We do not know what is good until we have lost it.
Spanish Proverb
If there be no remedy, why worry?
Spanish Proverb
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
Spanish Proverb
Home is where the heart is.
Spanish Proverb
Who talks much, errs much.
Spanish Proverb
Charity well regulated begins at home.
Spanish Proverb
We'll just have to make do.
Spanish Proverb
If and When were planted and Nothing grew.
Turkish Proverb
Two captains sink the ship.
Turkish Proverb
It is not disgraceful to ask, it is disgraceful not to ask.
Turkish Proverb
A lake forms drop by drop.
Turkish Proverb
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
Turkish Proverb
Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.
Turkish Proverb
Abundance is from activity.
Turkish Proverb
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
Turkish Proverb
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
Tomorrow is another day.
Turkish Proverb
There is no right way to do a wrong thing.
Turkish Proverb
Two heads are better than one.
Turkish Proverb
A willful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon.
Welsh Proverb
He understands badly who listens badly.
Welsh Proverb
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses,
breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
Welsh Proverb
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.
Welsh Proverb
The best candle is understanding.
Welsh Proverb
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Welsh Proverb
Adversity comes with instruction in his hand.
Welsh Proverb
Your hand is never the worse for doing its own work.
Welsh Proverb
If every man would sweep his own door-step the city would soon be
clean.
Welsh Proverb
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Welsh Proverb
Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched.
Welsh Proverb
A watched clock never tells the time.
Welsh Proverb
The advice of the aged will not mislead you.
Welsh Proverb
The smoothest way is full of stones.
Uiddish Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
Yiddish Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
Yiddish Proverb
Interest on debts grow without rain.
Yiddish Proverb
Had you gotten up early, you wouldn't have needed to stay up late.
Yiddish Proverb
If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.
Yiddish Proverb
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Yiddish Proverb
Better ask ten times than go astray once.
Yiddish Proverb
If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.
Yiddish Proverb
Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones.
Yiddish Proverb
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
Yiddish Proverb
Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes.
Yiddish Proverb