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| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~Mark Twain If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Anonymous Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~Henry Ford Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. ~Japanese Proverb Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb The reverse side also has a reverse side. ~Japanese Proverb Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. ~Jewish Proverb Worries go down better with soup than without. ~Jewish Proverb Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ~Sir Francis Bacon The big thieves hang the little ones. ~Czech Proverb When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. ~Czech Proverb Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. ~Scottish Proverb First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~Epictetus It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. ~Emiliano Zapata Examine what is said, not him who speaks. ~Arab Proverb Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~Arab Proverb Make your bargain before beginning to plow. ~Arab Proverb He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. ~Horace Hold a true friend with both hands. ~Nigerian Proverb If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. ~African Proverb He who would leap high must take a long run. ~Danish Proverb Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. ~Bible Praise youth and it will prosper. ~Irish Proverb Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. ~Kurdish Proverb Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. ~Marquis de Condorcet The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. ~Henry S. Haskins A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. ~Kahlil Gibran Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak. ~C. Kent Wright Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. ~Ralph Charell If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life. ~Chris Evert Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. ~Indian Proverb So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ~Immanuel Kant To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him. ~Daniel Considine When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. ~Albanian Proverb Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. ~Jean de La Fontaine If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. ~Oriental Proverb The best armor is to keep out of range. ~Italian Proverb It is not enough to aim; you must hit. ~Italian Proverb Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid. ~Basil King Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats. ~Malayan Proverb If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ~Yugoslav Proverb Complain to one who can help you. ~Yugoslav Proverb Be sincere; be brief; be seated. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. ~Spanish Proverb Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. ~Spanish Proverb If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. ~Spanish Proverb Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day. ~French Proverb Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. ~Scandinavian Proverb You must lose a fly to catch a trout. ~George Herbert Buy on the rumor; sell on the news. ~Wall Street Proverb God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. ~Thomas H. Huxley You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. ~John Ruskin It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. ~Latin Proverb Never give a child a sword. ~Latin Proverb If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman A full cup must be carried steadily. ~English Proverb Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. ~Elias Schwartz Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. ~Andre Gide Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. ~Francis Marion A smiling face is half the meal. ~Latvian Proverb Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. ~Pythagoras The palest ink is better than the best memory. ~Chinese Proverb Do not employ handsome servants. ~Chinese Proverb To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb When you drink the water, remember the spring. ~Chinese Proverb Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. ~Chinese Proverb If you bow at all, bow low. ~Chinese Proverb Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. ~Chinese Proverb The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb 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 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 He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. ~William Blake Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. ~Abraham Lincoln Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. ~Thomas Jefferson One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. ~Henry David Thoreau Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. ~Russell Baker First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. ~Greek Proverb Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ~Voltaire I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. ~Samuel Butler Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. ~William Shakespeare |