Happiness is a choice: My collection of Proverbs

Here you can find some of the proverbs that I collected when I was in school

Needs can be met, greed never
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers
Happiness is never perfect until it is shared
Proper preparation prevents poor performance or failure
The key of success is knowing yourself
Its better to learn from the experience of others
The greatest loss is the loss of self-confidence
Experience is one thing you can get for nothing
Even a fish wouldn’t get into trouble if head kept its mouth shut
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life
Where your mind goes, your energy flows
Where there is a will, there is a way
Either I will find a way or make one
Honesty is the best policy
Do the thing your fear, your fear will disappear
One is not born a genius, one becomes genius
Mistakes are your best teachers
All men make mistakes, only fools repeat them
A wise man thinks before acting and fools after it
A wise man speaks when others have exhausted their words
When it is impossible to change others you must change yourself
Do not do anything which someone else can do for you
A sorrow shared is sorrow halved
Be true to your work, your word and your friend
He is a good friend who speaks well of us even behind our back
Working together is success
Children are like wet clay, whatever falls on them makes an impression
The head which wears the crown will never enjoy the peace
If wealth is lost, nothing is lost; If health is lost, something is lost; If character is lost, everything is lost
Punctuality is the key to success in life
Your behavior always leaves an impression on others
A good book is the best friend
Have a smile for everyone and malice for none
Ones behavior shows ones character
Honesty gives birth to other qualities
Language is the “outward expression of inward grace”
Courtesy costs nothing but fetches everything
It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities
When you don’t know what you want to be, you often end up where you don’t want to be
Every great work of art has two faces – one towards its own time and one towards the future
A race horse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time
Don’t confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the same
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth
In the new year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want
A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance
The trick in eating crow is to pretend it tastes good
Your biggest competitor is your own view of your future
Its always helpful t learn from your mistakes, because then your mistakes seem worthwhile
The bow that bends too strictly snaps itself
Reading without thinking is like eating without digesting
It is the ideas that earn money and not money that earn the ideas
Admitting that you are wrong is an modest of showing that you have grown a little wiser
At the start of your career, what you learn is more important than what you earn
IF I had eight hours to chop a tree, I would spend six hours sharpening my axe
Honesty is the best policy with a little bit of common sense
Your biggest competitor is your own view of your future
A person does not learn to choose a good alternative without choosing a few bad ones
It doesn’t matter whether you can be proud of your ancestors, what matters is if they can be proud of you
If you want to be a success, display enough courage to welcome failures
Like a tree, we each must find a place to grow and branch out
If you don’t make mistakes, it only means your are not trying 100 percent
Imagination is much more important than knowledge
All that you are is a result of all that you have thought
A mans life is what his thoughts make of it
A change for better always starts with a change of thinking
The desire to wing is in most of us, the will to win is a matter of training and the manner of winning is a matter of honor
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
The end of education is character
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each others little failings
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
If you have peanuts to offer, you will get monkeys
Praise in public, reprimand in private
Don’t turn down the other man’s plans unless you have better one’s to offer
Working together does not only bring out the best in all of us; it also brings out the best in each one of us
From softness arises humility;
From humility arises trust;
From trust arises togetherness & one mind
A soft voice is heard long after the shout; Gentleness is stronger than anger
Sound becomes music if a trained man uses it. Training is essential
Condemn action, not people
What matters most today is the ability to think together and not alone
Everyone is a trainee as well as a trainer
Never allow two people to do a job which only one can do
One man makes the difference ---- the LEADER
Never be vindictive with anyone. Forgive & Forget
Trust is like a thin thread. Once you break it, it is almost impossible to put it together again.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails
The used key is always bright
Work smarter, not just harder
People can be divided into three groups
- those who make things happen;
- those who watch things happened;
- those who wonder what happened
Good people without discipline are worth nothing
A mob has many heads, but no brains
A good laugh is like sunshine
Amazingly people think the things that happen to them happen only to them
Never speak ill of your competitors
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonials than by a thousand arguments
Silence is a great art of conversation
Complaining about others is often an admission of one’s own incompetence
Forgive many things in others, nothing in yourself
When the winds of change are blowing, you need to know which way and how fast
To convince others, you have to convince yourself
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty
A man rarely succeeds at anything unless he has fun doing it
Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it
A two word success story – Work works
Ideas are useless unless used
Yesterday is beyond repair;
Tomorrow may never come;
Today alone is ours;
Therefore make the best use of today
Fortune favors the brave
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer
It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours
Love is injurious to health…SOMETIMES.
The help can only be offered, not imposed – Sri Aurbindo
The first thing need is quiet in mind – Sri Aurbindo
Drive out dark despair & go bravely on – Sri Aurbindo
The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be – Sri Aurbindo
Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement
Strong convictions precede great actions
I ruined time, now it is ruining me
Failure means delay, not defeat
Follow no one but learn from everyone
If you make up your mind to do three thing viz., to work, to save and to learn, then you can rise in the world
Don’t tell me how hard you work, tell me how much work you got done
Treating people courteously requires very little effort
Never stop listening
Never stop learning
Never stop training
Skills by themselves are not enough; it’s the attitude that makes the difference
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience
I am as successful as I make up my mind to be
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
All things are difficult before they become easy
Leave nothing for tomorrow, which can be done today
If you want to win friends, you have to learn to loose arguments
Do important jobs now before they become urgent
All power is within you; you can do anything and everything, believe in that. I do not believe that you are weak, stand up and express the divinity within you – Swami Vivekananda
We need light to see our own shadow
A small key opens a big door
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor
A modest man never talks about himself
Power comes from sincere service
Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise
Human nature is greedy of novelty
Society is no comfort to one not sociable
God heals and doctor takes the fee J
Obedience alone gives the right to command
Honest labor bears a lovely face
The fear of Lord is the beginning of wisdom
Laws are dumb in the midst of arms
A man’s best friends are his ten fingers
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it
Life is long if you know how to use it
“If you don’t invite trouble, trouble comes,” it means that if we don’t deal with our problems, our problems will deal with us . . .with a vengeance
Wise men never sit and wail their loss
Each one sees what he carries in his heart
An injury is much sooner forgotten than insult
Victory belongs to the most persevering
He who begins many things finishes nothing
If the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch
Laugh if you are wise
Vote should be weighed not counted
Confidence; you get it by getting it
It is our thoughts that keep us awake
Isn’t it better to bend than break
Common sense is not so common
You are judged by the company you keep
A truthful person shines like a star
Justice delayed is justice denied
Delay of justice is injustice
The clothes make the man
He who laughs last, laughs longest
Self trust is essence of heroism
Even the wildest can be tamed by love
The deepest hunger of a faithful heart is faithfulness
The worst deluded are the self-deluded
Tempt not a desperate man
It is easy to flatter, it is harder to praise
Time and tide wait for none
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
He conquers who endures
Good intentions are not good unless carried out
Money is like manure, it is useless unless used
Coming events cast their shadows before
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
Real beauty is the beauty of the soul
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver
Sympathy is the key that fits the lock of any heart
Never seem wiser or more learned than your company
In victory the hero seeks the glory, not the prey
The shame is in the crime, not in the punishment
People do not lack strength they lack will
Better to be harmless than helpful
Gratitude is the memory of the heart
Our attitudes govern our destiny
Vengeance has no foresight
We live in our desires rather than in achievements
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst
He is happy who thinks he is
Ability is poor man’s wealth
Constant practice often excels even talent
Competition brings the best out of you
You will only be remembered for two things, the problems you solve or the ones you create
Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem
When heaven throws date at you, you got to open your mouth
You make your own luck
Life is like a bank, you can not take out unless you put in
If you fail to prepare, then prepare to fail
Don’t count the chickens before they are hatched
Our mind is like a garden which can either be intelligently cultivated or be allowed to run wild
The harder you work the luckier you get
The spirit to win and the will to excel is always measured one stroke at a time
If you have the courage to begin you have the courage to finish
You will always miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take
I may have many faults but being wrong is not of them
A watched pot never boils
A man’s reach should exceed his grasp?
A new broom sweeps clean
A bad penny always turns up
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Forewarned is forearmed
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step
Life is pendulum between tears and joy
An expert is who knows more and more about less and less
One stitch in time saves nine stitches
Rolling stone gathers no mass
People with narrow minds have broad tongues
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it
Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which is it stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured
Give people more than what they expect and do it cheerfully
When you say, “I am sorry”, look the person in the eyes
Never laugh at anyone’s dream, people who don’t have dreams don’t have much
Talk slowly but think quickly
When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask “why do you want to know?”
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks
When you loose, don’t loose the lesson
Remember the three Rs – Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions
Success lies not in the result but in the effort. "Being" the Best in not at all important, "Doing" the Best is all that matters.
"When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy" -- Warren Buffet

My collection of Proverbs

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