Japanese Proverbs Quotes:

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Thinking, Digging, Too Late, Japanese Proverbs

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Love, Zero, Hate, Japanese Proverbs

Different strokes for different folks.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Different, Japanese Proverbs, Different Strokes

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

- Margi Preus

topic: Strength, Fall, Bodybuilding, Japanese Proverbs, Strength Of Will

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

- Grantland Rice

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Independent Thought, Japanese Proverbs

A frog in a well does not know the great sea.

- Chris Bradford

source: Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.58, Penguin UK

topic: Sea, Doe, Frogs, Japanese Proverbs

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

- Soichiro Honda

topic: Life, Opportunity, Hands, Japanese Proverbs, Great Opportunity

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

- Stephen King

topic: Dimples, Scar, Smallpox, Japanese Proverbs

Even monkeys fall from trees.

- Chris Bradford

topic: Fall, Tree, Monkeys, Japanese Proverbs

Two heads are better than one.

- Unknown

source: John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Kissing, Japanese Proverbs, Kissing And Love

Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet. I have survived the beginning, bloom, and death of countless enemies, civilizations, and people. And the one truth I have learned most during all of these centuries is the old Japanese proverb. If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Revenge, Men, Civilization, Japanese Proverbs

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

- Georges St-Pierre

topic: Fall, Mma, Falling Down, Japanese Proverbs