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Proverbs 4 Edition

One foe is too many and a hundred friends are too few.
          -- Native American Proverb

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
          -- Thomas Fuller

The butterfly often forgets it was a caterpillar.
          -- Swedish Proverb

 It is a wise child that knows its own father.

It's easier to tear a hole than to mend one.
          -- Russian Proverb

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
          -- Edwin Teale 

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
          -- Bolivian Proverb

Words can't break bones, but they can break hearts.
          -- Roadside Church Signs Across America 

My turn today, yours tomorrow.
          -- Latin Proverb

One good turn and you have most of the bedcovers.
          -- Elaine C. Moore 

A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
          -- Irish Proverb

Soft words are hard arguments.
          -- Thomas Fuller 

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
          -- Japanese Proverb

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
          -- Pablo Picasso

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
          -- Korean Proverb

Temper is one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

Patience makes all hardships light.
          -- Estonian Proverb

God gave everyone patience. The wise use it.
          -- Roadside Church Signs Across America 

Anger of the mind is poison to the soul.
          -- Ecuadorian Proverb

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
          -- Thomas Fuller 

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
          -- English Proverb

Winter is on my head, but spring is in my heart.
          -- Victor Hugo 

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.
          -- Japanese Proverb

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Talking is not like doing.
          -- Lebanese Proverb

Trust in God and do something.
          -- Mary Lyon 

No revenge is more honorable than one not taken.
          -- Spanish Proverb

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.
          -- Walter Weckler 

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.
          -- Chinese Proverb

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
          -- George Santayana 

The land is never devoid of counselors.
          -- African Proverb

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
          -- George Burns 

It isn't the whistle that pulls the train.
          -- Vermont Proverb

Saying is one thing and doing another. 

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
          -- English Proverb

The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles flames; so, where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one.
          -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld 

May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
          --Irish Blessing

As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction!
          --Irish Blessing 

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride, he must also know how to fall.
          --Native American Proverb

You can't get honey unless you take a chance on getting stung. 

One rotten beam can make a whole house collapse.
          --Russian Proverb

A chain is as strong as its weakest link. 

Beware of too great a bargain.
          --New England Proverb

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
          --Publilius Syrus 

The fish does not go after the hook, but
     after the bait.
          --Czech Proverb

Judge not according to the appearance.
          --John 7:24 

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.
          --German Proverb

Know which side your bread it buttered on.

The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
          --Italian Proverb

Let the buyer beware.

It takes two to make a quarrel but only one to end it.
          --Nicaraguan Proverb

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
          --Seneca 

Life is not a cup to be drained, but a measure to be filled.
          --American Proverb

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
          --William James 

No one else can represent your conscience.
          --Native American Proverb

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
          --Benjamin Franklin 

Other days, other ways.
          --Greek Proverb

You can never plan the future by the past.
          --Edmund Burke 

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
          --African Proverb

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes.
Just don't respond with encores.
          --Anonymous 

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
          --Yiddish Proverb

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
          --Abraham Lincoln 

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
          --Kiowa Proverb

Every seed knows its time.
          --Russian Proverb 

If there is no wind, row.
          --Latin Proverb

We will either find a way, or make one.
          --Hannibal 

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
          --Chinese Proverb

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. 

As he thinks in his heart, so he is.
          --Jewish Proverb

There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail.
          --Navajo Proverb 

Adversity is the stuff that shows whether you are what you thought you were.
          --American Proverb

Always a valley before a hill.
          --American Proverb 

Danger past, God forgotten.
          --Scottish Proverb

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
          --Teresa of Avila 

Let your ears hear what your mouth says.
          --Jewish Proverb
 

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
          --Mark Twain 

Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
          --American Proverb
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A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head. 
Those who wish to shine always find a song.
          --Swedish Proverb

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
          --Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
          --American Proverb

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared.
          --Eddie Rickenbacker 

Who gossips to you will gossip of you.
          --Puerto Rican Proverb

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
          --Earl Wilson 

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
          --Yiddish Proverb

Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
          --Emily Dickinson 

Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret.
          --American Proverb

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
          --Alexander Smith 

All dreams spin out from the same web.
          --Native American Proverb

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
          --Voltaire 

The deepest waters make the least noise.
          --Guatemalan Proverb

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
          --Sir Thomas Browne 

The deepest waters make the least noise.
          --Guatemalan Proverb

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
          --Sir Thomas Browne 

Listen to what they say of others and you will know what they say of you.
          --Cuban Proverb

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
          --Edgar Watson Howe 

You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you.
          --Rwandan Proverb

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
          --Jean-Paul Sartre 

The Lord will drench you with His showers, but he will dry you with His sun.
          --Czech Proverb

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
          --Psalms 

If you live in my heart, you live rent free.
          --Irish Proverb

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
          --Ring Lardner 

No one knows the story of tomorrow's dawn.
          --African Proverb

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
          --Abraham Lincoln

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
          --Hebrew Proverb

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
          --Aldous Huxley 

Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
          --American Proverb

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
          --Benjamin Franklin

Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.
          --Native American Proverb
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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as other creatures do.
          --1972 Only One Earth Conference 

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill

May the Lord grant me a sword and no need to use it.
          --Czech Proverb

One sword keeps another in the sheath.
          --George Herbert 

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
          --Native American Proverb

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.
          --Honduran Proverb 

He who doesn't look ahead remains behind.
          --Mexican Proverb

Light tomorrow with today!
          --Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Conscience is the voice of the soul.
          --Polish Proverb

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.
          --Samuel Johnson 

Who does nothing can do nothing wrong.
          --German Proverb

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
          --Beverly Sills 

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
          --Nigerian Proverb

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
          --Winnie the Pooh 

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
          --American Proverb

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
          --William Feather

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
          --Native American Proverb

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
          --Jewish Saying


“Almost everything we’ll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It’s often scary. It requires something you didn’t know before or a skill you didn’t have before. But in the end, it’s worth it. As former Congressman
Ed Forman says, ‘Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.’ Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.” – Jack Canfield

“When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.” - Mark Victor Hansen

“When you accomplish a goal, don’t cross it out. Instead, write ‘victory’ next to it and move on to the next one. This way, whenever you have a bad day, all you have to do is to review your victories to feel good about yourself.” – Jack Canfield
“Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day…between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they’re always positive.” – Jack Canfield

“If you do things the same way you’ve always done them, you’ll get the same outcomes you’ve always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you’ve got to do things differently.” - Mark Victor Hansen 

“One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere …in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter’s room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he’d ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like ‘Great job’…’I love you’…or ‘You’re special to me.’ Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her? “ – Jack Canfield
“If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can’t fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don’t have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you’ve got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.” – Jack Canfield

“Peter Thigpen, formerly Vice-President at Levi Strauss & Company, always kept a victory log. In it, he listed his accomplishments like…Opened up China as a market, Got my teenage son to clean up his room, Got the Board of Directors to approve the new expansion plan. Whenever he faced something really daunting, like negotiating a major
bank loan, he would review his Victory Log. You can do the same. In fact, when you focus on tasks completed successfully, it gives you the expectancy of success, which can change your entire posture or approach going forward.” – Jack Canfield
“The greatest deficit in America isn’t the trade deficit. It’s the attention deficit of our children. The average child gets 14 minutes of attention a day from each of his parents. So the greatest thing you can give a kid is time spent listening to him or her.” – Jack Canfield 
“The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans.” - Mark Victor Hansen

“Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly…even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you’re depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.” – Jack Canfield 

“When you have purpose, you don’t have time for negativity.” - Mark Victor Hansen

“The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That’s the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That’s what helps kids grow up feeling
capable.” – Jack Canfield 

 
 

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