Enter one or two keywords
to search these Inspirational Quotes.

Hint: keep it simple, like life or moving on



Facebook share   Tweet This   Email this

Quotes-Day
Quote of the Day  |  Thought of the Day  |  Inspirational Quotes  |  Motivational Quotes
Funny Quotes  |  Search for Quotes  |  Bible Verse  |  About


Sign-up to receive free Quotes-of-the-Day by email.
Follow Quotes-Day.com by Email:

Proverbs Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Proverbs Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23

Related topics: Christian Religion Bible

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) PHOTO

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden PHOTO


Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.

Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln PHOTO

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde PHOTO

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot PHOTO

 

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl PHOTO

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller PHOTO

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. PHOTO

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore PHOTO

Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

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

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer

A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw


Thank you for visiting: Proverbs quote of the day.

Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie



All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.

Jonathan Huie jlh(at)jlhuie(dot)com - About & Disclosure