English Proverbs And Sayings

These English proverbs and sayings have been used over and over again because of the wisdom and wit that the words express. We hope you may find one for inking.

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
• If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
• Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
• That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
• Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
• All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
• There is a great different between exposure of the mind and that of the body.
• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
• The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
• I might say that success is won by three things: first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
• Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
• Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
• You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
• A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
• The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible".
• Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
• Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
• Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
• It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
• If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
• Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
• Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
• Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
• All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.
• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
• The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
• The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
• If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
• Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
• Ideal are like the stars --- we never reach them , but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
• Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
• Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
• Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
• Between the ideal and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
• Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
• Between the ideal and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.