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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese 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
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Every dog has his day.
- Proverb
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- 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
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Before you can forgive others,
you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.
Before you can have gratitude for your life,
you must believe that your life has value.
Before your choices have value,
you must feel that you yourself have value.
Before you can dream a great dream for your future,
you have to believe that your future matters.
Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,
before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,
"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"
you must believe that your life matters.
Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.
And, before you can feel unity with,
and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,
you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
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