hey!do you know some beautiful proverbs or thoughts?

Question

which helps in motivating ourselves?

Answer 1

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words

Better be a fool than a knave.

Better be a fool than a knave.

Ever since dying came into fashion, life hasn't been safe.

Fools and Stupid People :

It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense. (GNB: Prov 17.16)

A fool does not care whether he understands a thing or not; all he wants to do is to show how clever he is. (GNB: Prov 18.2)

Stay away from foolish people; they have nothing to teach you. (GNB: Prov 14.7)

Intelligent people talk sense, but stupid people need to be punished. (GNB: Prov 10.13)

An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times. (GNB: Prov 17.10)

You have to whip a horse, you have to bridle a donkey, and you have to beat a fool. (GNB: Prov 26.3)

A conceited fool is sure to get a beating. (GNB: Prov 19.29)

Even if you beat fools until they're half dead, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them. (GNB: Prov 27.22)

If you let a fool deliver a message, you might as well cut off your own feet; you are asking for trouble. (GNB: Prov 26.6)

A fool can use a proverb about as well as crippled people can use their legs. (GNB: Prov 26.7)

A fool quoting a wise saying reminds you of a drunk trying to pick a thorn out of his hand. (GNB: Prov 26.9)

Knowledge - Intelligence - Learning :

Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good; impatience will get you into trouble. (GNB: Prov 19.2)

Intelligent people want to learn, but stupid people are satisfied with ignorance. (GNB: Prov 15.14)


Do yourself a favour and learn all you can; then remember what you learn and you will prosper. (GNB: Prov 19.8)

Son, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know. (GNB: Prov 19.27)

People who listen when they are corrected will live, but those who will not admit that they are wrong are in danger. (GNB: Prov 10.17)

Those who love knowledge want to be told when they are wrong. It is stupid to hate being corrected. (GNB: Prov 12.1)

Someone who will not learn will be poor and disgraced. Anyone who listens to correction is respected. (GNB: Prov 13.18)

If you refuse to learn, you are hurting yourself. If you accept correction, you will be wiser. (GNB: Prov 15.32)

Intelligent people think before they speak; what they say is then more persuasive. (GNB: Prov 16.23)

Nagging Wife (proverbs selected by Apronus.com authors)

Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife. (GNB: Prov 21.9)

Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife. (GNB: Prov 21.19)

A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day. How can you keep her quiet? Have you ever tried to stop the wind or ever tried to hold a handful of oil? (GNB: Prov 27.15)

Answer 2

all that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Build, therefore, your own world.

As leaves fall so buds are born.

Be Realistic... Expect a Miracle!

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

If once is always, now is a fleeting eternity.
~ Rachel McCartney

In the hour of adversity be not without hope for crystal rain falls from black clouds.
~Nizami, Persian poet

Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.

Life is like a sewer, what you get out depends on what you put in!

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
~ Marcus Aurelius

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
~ Plutarch

What is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
~ Richard Bach (Illusions)

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is the present, that's why it's a gift.

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

You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
~ George Bernard Shaw


Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
- Thomas Dewar

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
- Leo Rosten

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
- Gucci Slogan

You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
- Ivan Turgenev

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
- Ursula Le Guin

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
- Brian Tracy

Answer 3

First, an idea is ridiculed, then it is violently opposed, then it is accepted as self-evident fact. Paraphrased from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Think about that one when you're starting a "risky" idea that everybody thinks will fail miserably and completely ruin you... then a few years later they ALL knew it would work.

Answer 4

sounds like a concept from somebody of Buddhist mysticism or some eastern appropriate philosophical equipment. The you maximum probably correlated to the ego, the "I" that we parade around in our on a regular basis lives. yet our authentic selves, what's left after the ego has dissolved, exists in a sort of infinity. it somewhat is a eye-catching concept, it speaks to the grandeur of existence, the indoors-connectedness of all issues. you're right here, yet you're additionally everywhere at as quickly as.

Answer 5

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

- Albert Einstein

Answer 6

I love this; it speaks to the one-ness we have with each other. You have many gifts given to you by your Creator and we all need to share them with each other.

Meditation XVII:

..."No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

---John Donne

Answer 7

"An armed society is a polite society"
"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
"The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive"
“Love” is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Robert A. Heinlein

Answer 8

"If others can, let them do it for you."

"Chances favors only the prepared mind."

"I forgot what I've taught, I only remember what I've learnt."

"There are strings in our heart that is better not to be vibrated."

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget."

Answer 9

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb - that's where all the fruit is.

Answer 10

No road is long with good company.