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Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new
one holds water.
- Swedish Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
-
Dutch proverb
If
there is no wind, row.
- Japanese proverb
Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.
- Norwegian
proverb
One
kind word can warm three winter months.
- Chinese Proverb
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
- Italian
Proverb
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-
Maori proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without
trials.
- Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.
- Chinese Proverb
Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.
- Malay proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
-
Japanese proverb
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
-
Old Eskimo proverb
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
A gentle hand may lead an elephant with a single hair.
- Persian proverb
Keep a green tree alive in your heart and a songbird may come to sing there.
- Chinese Proverb
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
- Ethiopian proverb
The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it.
- African proverb
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