Words of Wisdom: Recipe for a Good Life

2008-06-08T17:26:00.000-07:00

A Never Ending Journey

"What you do in life, echoes in eternity."

"Rise and rise again until lambs become lions."

"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."

"Ideas you believe are absurd, ultimately lead to success."

"The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. No one can understand how deceitful it is."

"The hearts of men are easily corrupted."

"Speak the truth always, even it leads to your death."

"Be brave and upright that God may love thee."

"Be without fear in the face of your enemies."

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

"Better a sincere jerk than a disingenuous sycophant."

"Rudeness equals authenticity, whereas excessive politesse is considered suspicious.”

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend."

"Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear."

"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"Live together like brothers and do business like strangers."

"He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. "

"Example is better than precept."

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."

"Dawn does not come twice to awaken a man."

"A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."

"Happiness is not about who you are or what you have, but what you think."

"Four things never come back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity."

"Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass."

"Never cut what you can untie."

"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter."

"When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet."

"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

"Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience."

"Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

"When you were born, everyone around was smiling and you were the one crying. Live life so that when you die, everyone around you is crying and you are the one smiling."

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

"If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it."

"Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down."

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there’s less competition."

"Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet."

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

"If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up."

"Praise people for what they do and don't criticize them for what they cannot do."

"Success is not in the result but is in the effort."

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated on a daily basis."

"Help yourself to help God help you."

"Talk of the devil - and the devil appears."

"Whose end of tongue is sharp, the edge of his head must be hard."

"A handful of love is better than an oven full of bread."

"One who gets up early is doubly lucky."

"A kind word opens even the iron doors."

"A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the branch."

"Consider the tune, not the voice; consider the words, not the tune; consider the meaning, not the words."

"To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person."

"If there is no financial involvement between relatives, the relationship is harmonious."

"A trustworthy person steals one's heart."

"Eyes are the mirror of mind."

"Half truth is more frightening than falsehood."

"Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood."

"Drop by drop would make a lake."

"Wise enemy is better than a foolish friend."

"Tree would bend when it bears fruit."

"Intelligence is in the head, not in the age."

"A coin in an empty barrel, makes a lot of noise."

"Visit rarely, and you will be more loved."

"Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh."

"Proverbs are the lamp of speech."

"Only three things in life are certain: birth, death and change."

"Measure your quilt, then stretch your legs."

"Believe what you see and not all you hear."

"Ask the experienced rather than a doctor."

"Arrogance diminishes wisdom."

"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."

"A thousand enemies outside the house is better than one within."

"A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing."

"A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."

"A bird in the hand is better than ten on a tree."

"Complaining is the weak's weapon."

"The secret to success is to walk forward."

"A person who does not speak out against the wrong is a mute devil."

"Words of wisdom comes out of simple people's mouths."

"Ignorance is the death of the living."

"Ignorance is the worst acquaintance."

"Choose your neighbours before you choose your home."

"Wealth comes like a turtle and goes away like a gazelle."

"Arrogance over the arrogant is modesty."

"Get together like brothers, and work together like strangers."

"Get together like brother, and keep each other in check like strangers."

"Visit each other but don't be neighbors."

"Planning is half of living."

"If you do charity, your house will be always rich."

"Close the door from which the wind blows and relax."

"The worst emotion is envy."

"Anger begins with madness and ends with regret."

"Human thinks and God plans."

"Distance yourself from every dirtiness."

"Burial is the way to honor the dead."

"Eat less to sleep more."

"The envious person is the least happy."

"The best generousity is giving without being asked."

"Too much humility brings humiliation."

"The wisest is the one who can forgive."

"Better be single all your life than be a widow for a month."

"Seek education from the cradle to the grave."

"The hardest the problem is the closer it is to be solved."

"Beat the iron while it is hot."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."

"Have patience and you'll get what you want."

"The greatest poverty is the lack of intelligence."

"The hardest fight is fighting your anger."

"Heard the question wrong, answered wrong."

"Plant each day and you will eat."

"Every person is observant to the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws."

"If you have an opinion, be determined, the only faulty opinion is to hesitate."

"If you know then it's a disaster, and if you don't know then it's a greater disaster."

"Rudeness is probably the worst character of a human being."

"Rudeness knows no bounds of shame."

"If you opress who is below you then you won't be safe from the punishment of who is above you."

"Advice sharpens a rusty opinion."

"The smarter you get the less you speak."

"Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you."

"Your brother is who's honest with you, not who believes you."

"Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts."

"Leave evil, it will leave you."

"Bark at coworkers today, bite the owner tomorrow."

"Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times."

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

"Loose lips sink ships."

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

"Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows."

"The more you know, the less you need."

"If a dog shows his teeth, show him the stick."

"Do not wait for good things to search for you, you search for them."

"Do not be shy of whom is shameless."

"Those who know to praise sure know to insult."

"Where there is heart, there are hands."

"Where there are bees, there is honey."

"Good start is half of the work."

"Clean hand, empty stomach."

"The hand with mud, the bread with honey."

"The day without work, the night without sleep."

"The door of lazyness is the boundary of misery."

"Laziness is the mother of all bad habits "

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

"Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree."

"One who loves you, warns you."

"A good year is determined by its spring."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from others' mistakes."

"He who trusts in his own heart is a fool."

"As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."

"A man skilled in his work will stand before kings."

"Making up with a friend you have betrayed is harder than breaking through a city wall."

"He who mocks the poor, taunts his Maker."

"The one guards his mouth preserves his life."

"An excellent wife is the crown of her husband."

"Anger resides in the lap of fools."

"God has said, "Start moving so that I may start blessing"."

"Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates."

"A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a wise man draws it out."

"Our lives are not made by the dreams we dream, but by the choices we make."

"A child is what you put into him."

"To have no enemies is equivalent to wealth."

"When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops."

"We are what our thinking makes us."

"Properly earned money appreciates. Improperly earned money depreciates."

"Two footsteps do not make a path. Two raindrops do not make a pool."

"It is not only the fox, even the snail arrives at its destination."

"Even the tallest tower begins with the first stone."

"Success is 10% ability, and 90% sweat."

"He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little."

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"Courage is the father of success."

" Observe with the eyes; listen with the ears; shut the mouth. Thus one learns."

"Ability has no school."

"Fear God so that you earn His everlasting blessings."

"Truth breeds hatred."

"A life with love is happy; a life for love is foolish."

"A smile will gain you ten more years of life."

"A. An empty bag cannot stand upright.
B. Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.
C. Cheese and salty meat should be sparingly eat.
D. The Doors of wisdom are never shut.
E. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
F. Full of courtesy, full of craft.
G. God helps them that help themselves.
H. Hunger never saw bad bread.
I. If you'd have a servant that you like, serve your self.
J. If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
K. Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
L. A Lie stands on one leg, the truth on two.
M. A Man without a wife is but half a man.
N. Nothing but money is sweeter than honey.
O. One today is worth two tomorrows.
P. Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.
Q. A Quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
R. The Rotten apple spoils his companion.
S. Speak little, do much.
T. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
U. Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
V. Visits should be short, like a winter's day.
W. Well done is better than well said.
X. A good example is the best sermon.
Y. You may delay, but time will not.
Z. There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies."

"Save your money and one day it'll return the favor."

"Never spend your money before you have it."

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

"If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."

"If ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, divide them; if equal, be able to fight them; if fewer, be able to evade them; if weaker, be able to avoid them."

"What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease."

"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting."

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

"Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley."

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts."

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."

"A life is a simple letter in the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning."

"Murphy’s 1st Law – Nothing is as easy as it looks
Murphy’s 2nd Law – Everything takes longer than you think
Murphy’s 3rd Law – Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong
Murphy’s 4th law – if there is a possibility of several things going wrong, at a minimum the one that causes the most damage will go wrong.
Murphy’s 5th Law – if it is impossible for something to go wrong, then it will definitely go wrong.
Murphy’s 6th Law – Left to themselves, things will go from bad to worse.
Murphy’s 7th Law – if things seem to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something."

"In business, recognizing the problem is just as important as knowing a method to solve it."

"If you give a man a fish, he will eat once. If you teach a man to fish, he will eat for the rest of his life."

"If you are thinking a year ahead, sow seed.
If you are thinking 10 years ahead, educate the people.
By sowing seed, you will harvest once.
By planting a tree, you will harvest tenfold.
By educating the people you will harvest one hundredfold."

"What is the secret of your success? Right decisions.
And how do you make right decisions? Experience.
And how do you gain experience? Two words.
And what are they? Wrong decisions."

"1. Guard your tongue. Say less than you think.
2. Make promises sparingly. Keep them faithfully.
3. Never let an opportunity pass to say a kind word.
4. Be interested in others, their pursuits, work, families.
5. Be cheerful. Don't dwell on minor aches and small disappointments.
6. Keep an open mind. Discuss but don't argue. Disagree without being disagreeable.
7. Discourage gossip. It's destructive.
8. Be careful of others' feelings.
9. Pay no attention to ill-natured remarks about you.
10.Live so that nobody will believe them."

"A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush."

"A close friend can become a close enemy."

"A closed mouth catches no flies."

"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."

"A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master."

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

"A friend's eye is a good mirror."

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."

"A healthy man is a successful man."

"A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on."

"A little too late, is much too late."

"A lock is better than suspicion."

"A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners."

"A penny saved is a penny gained."

"A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands."

"A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths."

"A silent mouth is melodious."

"A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life."

"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."

"A teacher is better than two books."

"A thief believes everybody steals."

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

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

"A worthy woman is far more precious than jewels, strength and dignity are her clothing."

"Advice when most needed is least heeded."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

"An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue."

"Anger can be an expensive luxury."

"As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy."

"Better give a penny then lend twenty."

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."

"Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree."

"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

"Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never."

"He that lives on hope will die fasting."

"He that spareth his rod hateth his son."

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

"He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them."

"He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you."

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

"He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup."

"He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief."

"He who knows nothing, doubts nothing."

"He who serves two masters has to lie to one."

"Honesty is the best policy."

"If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look."

"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."

"If you love him, don't lend him."

"Lend your money and lose your friend."

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

"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it."

"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

"Live with wolves, and you learn to howl."

"Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears."

"Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence."

"A good year is determined by its spring."

"One flower does not bring spring."

"There is a path to the top of highest mountain."

"The first day you meet, you are friends; the next day you meet, you are brothers."

"Great fires erupt from tiny sparks."

"No one tests the depth of a river with both feet."

"One cannot both feast and become rich."

"One falsehood spoils a thousand truths."

"There is no medicine to cure hatred."

"When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful."

"If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings."

"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something."

"The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory."

"The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."

"You must judge a man by the work of his hands."

"All good things come to those who wait."

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."

"Beauty without grace is like a hook without bait."

"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

"Don't cross your bridges before you get to them."

"A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect."

"A soft answer turneth away wrath."

"Evildoers always think the worst of others."

"Half the truth is often a whole lie."

"If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas."

"If you talk too much you're likely to give yourself away."

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

"Look after the pennies, and the pounds (poundsterling) will look after themselves."

"Once a thief, always / ever a thief."

"One enemy is too many; and a hundred friends too few."

"Out of debt, out of danger."

"The best way to solve a problem is to attack its cause / root."

"The greatest hate springs from the greatest love."

"Things often happen when you least expect them to."

"You can judge a man by the company he keeps."

"A young tree is easy to straighten, but when it's big it is difficult."

"A man that talks too much accomplishes little."

"A true friend is known in time of need."

"Barking dogs seldom bite."

"Knowledge is wealth that can't be stolen."

"If it's work, do it fast. If it's food, eat it little by little."

"A wise man doesn't see his foot on the ground, he watches his next step."

"What is easily acquired is easily lost."

"He who is choosy often picks the worst."

"He who refuses advice will end up in hardship."

"There is no muddy water that doesn't clear"

"If there is no patience, there will be no food."

"He who does not look back to his origins will not reach his destination."

"A child that is given everything will rarely succeed in life."

"He who finds a friend, finds a treasure."

"The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone."

"You catch more flies with honey than a barrel of vinegar."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

"A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship."

"A fool dreams of wealth, a wise man, of happiness."

"A good companion shortens the longest road."

"A kind word warms a man through three winters."

"A man is as wise as his head, not his years."

"A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them."

"Do not roll up your trousers before reaching the stream."

"Do what your teacher says but not what he does."

"Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them."

"If God closes one door, He opens a thousand others."

"Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once."

"Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit."

"Those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know."

"What you give away you keep."

"Wish well, be well."

"Work as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow."

"Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times."

"Don't hit one on the face."

"Dripping water can eat through a stone."

"A single tree makes no forest; one string makes no music."

"A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty."

"A dog will jump over a wall when cornered."

"Misery loves company."

"Harmony makes both a family and a nation prosperous."

"A friend made is a road paved; an enemy created is a wall built."

"Help the needy but not the poor."

"A honeyed mouth hides a daggered heart."

"A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off."

"A long march starts from the very first step."

"A smile is worth a thousand ounces of gold."

"The sea cannot be measured with a bucket."

"Void of a long-term plan will bring you trouble soon."

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Words of Wisdom: Recipe for a Good Life