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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 
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese 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
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo 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
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Every dog has his day.
- Proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
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
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish 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
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
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