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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Proverbs.
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
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A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
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