Japanese Proverbs Quotes

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Thinking, Digging, Too Late

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Zero, Hate

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• Different strokes for different folks.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Different

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• Fall down seven times, get up eight.

  Margi Preus

  Strength, Fall, Bodybuilding

  Margi Preus (2011). “Heart of a Samurai”, p.157, Abrams

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

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Chris Bradford

  Sea, Doe, Frogs

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Stephen King

  Dimples, Scar, Smallpox

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Even monkeys fall from trees.

  Chris Bradford

  Fall, Tree, Monkeys

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

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

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• 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

  Revenge, Men, Civilization

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

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fall, Mma, My Favorite

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