A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

A hundred no's are less agonizing than one insincere yes.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

A little impatience will spoil great plans.

A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.

A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd.

All’s well that ends well.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.

Don’t cast pearls before swine.

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Don’t put the cart before the horse.

Easy come, easy go.

Every evil has at least one good outcome.

Every man is the architect of his destiny.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fortune favors the brave.

God helps those who help themselves.

He who can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.

If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back.

If you're healthy, you're wealthy.

It’s better to be safe than sorry.

It’s no use crying over spilt milk.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Learn to walk before you run.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Look before you leap.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Never test the depth of water with both feet.

No news is good news.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.

Practice makes perfect.

Ripe fruit falls by itself, but it doesn't fall in your mouth.

Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.

Still waters run deep.

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

To know another is not to know the person's face, but to know the person's heart.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

What goes around comes around.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Where one door shuts, another opens.

"A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at." - Bruce Lee

"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence." - Bruce Lee

"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live." - Bertrand Russell

"A house without love is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls." - Hermann Hesse

"A leader leads by example, not by force." - Sun Tzu

"A man is an onion consisting of hundreds of skins, a fabric consisting of many threads." - Hermann Hesse

"A noble person blames himself, and an insignificant person blames others." - Confucius

"A person's a person, no matter how small." -  Dr. Seuss

"A sage who wants to be above people puts himself below them, wanting to be ahead of them, he becomes behind." - Lao Tzu

"A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time." - Mencius

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." - Sun Tzu

"Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others." - Confucius

"Be attentive to your thoughts, they are the beginning of actions." - Lao Tzu

"Be gentle, but not submissive. Be strong, but not cruel." - Bruce Lee

"By remaining true to yourself without seeking to compare and compete, you will achieve universal respect." - Lao Tzu

"Control your thoughts, or your thoughts will control you." - unknown

"Do not wish health and wealth, but wish good luck, because on the Titanic everyone was rich and healthy, but only a few were lucky." - Winston Churchill

"Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about." - unknown

"Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." - Bruce Lee

"Don't let success go to your head. Don't let failure go to your heart." - unknown

"Don't trust words; trust actions." - unknown

"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." - Voltaire

"Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need." - unknown

"Everybody should be treated equally and with dignity, no matter the circumstance." - Dr. Seuss

"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud." - Hermann Hesse

"Everything comes to you at the right time, be patient and trust the process." - unknown

"Expect nothing, appreciate everything. Be grateful for the little things in your life to find inner peace." - unknown 

"Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe." - Hermann Hesse

"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will be blunt." - Lao Tzu

"Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you." - unknown

"Great results can be achieved with small forces." - Sun Tzu

"Happiness is when you are understood. Great happiness is when you are loved. Real happiness is when you love." - Confucius

"He who gives up his freedom for security receives neither." - Thomas Jefferson

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - unknown

"He who is satisfied with his lot is rich." - Lao Tzu

"He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." - Confucius

"He who runs away is the first one to get caught." - unknown

"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend." - Lao Tzu

 “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” - George Carlin

"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others." - Socrates

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"If someone is trying to bring you down, they are already below you." - unknown

"If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room." - unknown

"If you don't control your mind, someone else will." - unknown

"If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially-shamed, gilt-tripped, threatened, punished, and criminalized... If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance, you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest." - YouTube comment (multiple users)

"If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you." - Bruce Lee

"If you are a giver, remember to learn your limits because the takers don't have any." - unknown

"If they spit at you behind your back, it means you're ahead of them." - Confucius

"If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." - Lao Tzu

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not." - unknown

"It is better to know how to learn than to know." - Dr. Seuss

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how they whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get." - Confucius.

"It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city." - Jordan B. Peterson

"It's not what you give, it's the way you give it." - Bruce Lee

"Knowledge is the treasure, and practice is the key to it." - Lao Tzu

"Learn to heal without venting to everyone." - unknown

"Life is a journey, not a destination."  - unknown

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them, that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." - Lao Tzu

"Live for the praise of others and you will become their prisoner." - Lao Tzu

"Loneliness is the price you pay when you start to improve yourself." - unknown

"Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity." - Bruce Lee

"Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present." - unknown

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu

"New beginnings are disguised as painful endings." - Lao Tzu

"No matter how smart, successful, and good-looking you are, nobody likes arrogance. Humility is everything." - unknown

"No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent."  - Otto von Bismarck

"Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate." - Bruce Lee

"Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught and the last stream poisoned, we'll realize that we cannot eat money." - unknown

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."  - Confucius

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."  - Voltaire

"People are distressed by their inability to do it. The problem, however, is simply that they don't do it." - Mencius

"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved, and people are being used." - unknown

"People will start missing you when they see how happy you are without them." - Dr. Seuss

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." - Hermann Hesse

"Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day."  - unknown

"Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today." - Bruce Lee

"Pride and excess bring disaster for man." - Xunzi

"Reading can take you places you have never been before." - Dr. Seuss

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."  - unknown

"Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke." - Hermann Hesse

"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." - unknown

"Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted." - unknown

"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." - George Orwell

"Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn." - Charles Bukowski

"Sometimes, the things that break your heart end up fixing your vision." - unknown

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." - Dr. Seuss

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn." - unknown

"Stay patient.; the best things happen unexpectedly." - unknown

"Temperance is the first step of virtue, which is the beginning of moral perfection." - Lao Tzu

"The calmer you are, the clearer you think." - unknown 

"The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. "- Hermann Hesse

"The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others." - Mencius

"The family you create is more important than the family you come from." - unknown

"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world." - Karl Marx

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

"The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask is a fool for life." - Confucius

"The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school." - Haruki Murakami

"The noble person uses things, the lesser man is used by things." - Xunzi

"The only person that cares about your hopes and dreams is you. The only person that is going to make them happen is you." - unknown

"The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom." - Leo Tolstoy

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." - Nikola Tesla

"The vaccine should be tested on politicians first. If they survive, the vaccine is safe. If they don’t, then the country is safe.” - Monika Wisniewska

"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere." - Xunzi

"The road of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it." - Mencius

"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of the good people." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"There are 1000 lessons in defeat, but only one in victory." - Confucius

"There is no crime greater than having too many desires. There is no disaster greater than not being content. There is no misfortune greater than being covetous." - Lao Tzu

"Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light." - Bruce Lee

"Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader." - Hermann Hesse

"Three things never come back - time, word and opportunity. Therefore, do not waste time, choose words and do not miss the opportunity." - Confucius

"To avoid disappointment, expect nothing from nobody." - unknown

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." - Mahatma Gandhi

"To complain about an unpleasant thing is to double the evil, to laugh at it is to destroy it." - Confucius

"To lead people, follow them." - Lao Tzu

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." - Confucius

"True words are not pleasant, pleasant words are not true." - Lao Tzu

"Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."  - Voltaire

"Two people is an illegal assembly. Three people is a national rebellion. One million people is just a handful of extremists." - communist joke

"Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny." - Lao Tzu

"We accept advice in drops, but we distribute it in buckets." - Confucius

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." - unknown

"What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits."  - Carl Jung

"What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter."  - Baruch Spinoza

"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." - Lao Tzu

"Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do."  - Aristotle

"Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine." - Sun Tzu

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu

“When the people fear the government, it’s called tyranny. When the government fears the people, it’s called freedom” - unknown

"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults." - Hermann Hesse

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - unknown

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)." - Mark Twain

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out." - Dr. Seuss

"Without sacrifice, there is no survival. Without faith, there is no hope. Without God, there is no humanity." - unknown

"Work on clearing your thoughts. If you do not have bad thoughts, there will be no bad deeds." - Confucius

"You are on your own. And you know what you know. And only you can decide where to go." - Dr. Seuss

"You can make a stop during the ascent, but not during the descent." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - unknown

"You have three choices in life: you can watch things happen, make things happen, or wonder what the hell happened." - unknown

"You have to be odd to be number one." - Dr. Seuss

"You learn nothing from life if you think you're right all the time." - unknown

"You shouldn't fear the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once, but you should fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times." - Bruce Lee

"You're being judged no matter what, so be who you want to be." - unknown

"Your deepest, darkest moment may be the best thing that ever happens to you." - unknown

"Your direction is more important than your speed." - unknown