The following 100 Proverbs (updated Jan 22, 2023) are part of over 2,000 quotations that I have collected since 1982.
| Where there is no vision, the people perish: (King James Version of the Holy Bible) | —PROVERBS 29:18 |
| If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. | —AFRICAN Proverb |
| If you want to walk fast, walk alone; if you want to walk far, walk with others. | —AFRICAN Proverb |
| The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears. | —ARABIAN Proverb |
| The horse is God’s gift to mankind. | —ARABIAN Proverb |
| Those who have health have hope; and those who have hope have everything. | —ARABIAN Proverb |
| Do not follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. | —ASHANTI Proverb |
| Work is good, provided you do not forget to live. | —BANTU Proverb |
| If you take big paces you leave big spaces. | —BURMESE Proverb |
| Flowing water never goes bad. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| He who treads softly goes far. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| Of all strategies, to know when to quit may be the best. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| One step at a time is good walking. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me and I’ll understand. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| To do good work, one must have good tools. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I know. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| When you drink the water, remember the spring. | —CHINESE Proverb |
| We will be known by the tracks we leave behind. | —DAKOTA Proverb |
| Better to ask twice than to lose your way once. | —DANISH Proverb |
| You can’t be lost, if you don’t care where you are. | —DUTCH CARIBBEAN Proverb |
| Adventures are to the adventurous. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| Every path has its puddle. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| Hasty climbers have sudden falls. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| He travels fastest who travels alone. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| It is a long lane that has no turning. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| If two ride a horse, one must ride behind. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| If you don’t make mistakes you don’t make anything. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| Nature, time, and patience, are the three great physicians. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| Those who are absent are always wrong. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| You do not find what you do not seek. | —ENGLISH Proverb |
| A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. | —ETHIOPIAN Proverb |
| He who is outside his door has the hardest part of the journey behind him. | —FLEMISH Proverb |
| Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between. | —GAELIC Proverb |
| It is better to wear out one’s shoes than one’s sheets. | —GENOESE Proverb |
| What is the use of running when we are not on the right road? | —GERMAN Proverb |
| Who begins too much accomplishes little. | —GERMAN Proverb |
| Act quickly, think slowly. | —GREEK Proverb |
| Many hands make light work. | —GREEK Proverb |
| Po buckra an dog walk one pat [The poor man and the dog walk the same path]. | —GULLAH Proverb (dialect heard in the lowcountry of South Carolina) |
| Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. | —HINDU Proverb |
| Walking makes for a long life. | —HINDU Proverb |
| Listen to nature’s voice—it contains treasures for you. | —HURON Proverb |
| Listen to the voice of nature. | —HURON Proverb |
| Nature, time and patience are the great physicians. | —IRISH Proverb |
| It is better to lose the saddle than the horse. | —ITALIAN Proverb |
| Beginning is easy—continuing is hard. | —JAPANESE Proverb |
| Don’t give others what they don’t want. | —JAPANESE Proverb |
| Fall down seven times and stand up eight. | —JAPANESE Proverb |
| Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. | —JAPANESE Proverb |
| We have not inherited the world from our forefathers—we have borrowed it from our children. | —KASHMIRI Proverb |
| When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard. | —LAKOTA Proverb |
| Before supper walk a little; after supper do the same. | —LATIN Proverb |
| If there is no wind, row. | —LATIN Proverb |
| It is solved by walking. | —LATIN Proverb |
| The beaten path is the safest. | —LATIN Proverb |
| It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. | —MEXICAN Proverb |
| He who does not travel does not know the value of men. | —MOORISH Proverb |
| We didn’t inherit the earth from our parents, we are borrowing it from our children. | —NATIVE AMERICAN Proverb |
| A traveler to distant places should make no enemies. | —NIGERIAN Proverb |
| The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one’s preparations. | —NIGERIAN Proverb |
| Do not look to the ground for your next step; greatness lies with those who look to the horizon. | —NORWEGIAN Proverb |
| To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. | —OGLALA SIOUX Proverb |
| Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. | —OLD Proverb |
| Better to turn back than to lose your way. | —RUSSIAN Proverb |
| He who has traveled alone can tell what he likes. | —RWANDAN Proverb |
| Set a stout heart to a steep hillside. | —SCOTTISH Proverb |
| Don’t settle, roam over the prairies. | —SEMINOLE Proverb |
| The path to glory is rough. | —SEMINOLE Proverb |
| It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion. | —SENEGALESE Proverb |
| Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. | —SERBIAN Proverb |
| A horse is worth more than riches. | —SPANISH Proverb |
| A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. | —SPANISH Proverb |
| He who would venture nothing must not get on a horse. | —SPANISH Proverb |
| On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy. | —SPANISH Proverb |
| Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow. | —SPANISH Proverb |
| Standing is still going. | —SWAHILI Proverb |
| It’s not so much where you are as which way you are going. | —US Proverb |
| On an unknown path every foot is slow. | —US Proverb |
| The man who walks takes title to the world around him. | —US Proverb |
| A genius is a man who has an eye to see Nature… a heart to feel Nature… and the courage to follow Nature. | —Welsh Proverb |
| Be like a rock in the middle of a river, let all of the water flow around and past you. | —ZEN Proverb |
| The obstacle is the path. | —ZEN Proverb |
| When you reach the top, keep climbing. | —ZEN Proverb |
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