A little impatience will spoil great plans.
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
If you bow at all, bow low.
A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
A book holds a house of gold.
Talk does not cook rice.
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
A needle is not sharp at both ends.
Distant water won't help to put out a fire close at hand.
Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Want a thing long enough and you don't.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.
Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.
A man without a smiling face must not open shop.
It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
