Character can be built on daily routine.
—Japanese Proverb
When you’re dying of thirst it’s too late to think about digging a well.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Planning
A good religion does not need miracles.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Miracles
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
—Japanese Proverb
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Individuality
If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Praise
You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Health
When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Parents
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Love
Advertising is the mother of trade.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Advertising
At the bottom of the lighthouse it is dark.
—Japanese Proverb
You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
There is no escape from heaven’s web.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heaven
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Learning
Every meeting is the beginning of a good-bye.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Book
Only when the coffin is closed will we see how long lasting is the name.
—Japanese Proverb
Day has its eyes, night has its ears.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Eyes
One kind word can warm three winter months.
—Japanese Proverb
There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Imagination, Proverbs
The past is the future of the present.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Future, Past
The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: The Body
Wisdom is lost in a fat man’s body.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: The Body
If you want to know what’s happening in the market, ask the market.
—Japanese Proverb
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Smile, Morning
If you are going out for a fight leave your best hat at home.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Fighting, Home
Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Lawyers, Proverbs
Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Laughter
Fix the problem, not the blame.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Criticism
Fall down seven times, get up eight times.
—Japanese Proverb
Happiness spring—cleans the heart.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Happiness
Where there is laughter happiness likes to be.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Happiness
In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Poverty
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Money
Unspoken words are the flowers of silence.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Silence
If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Friendship
We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Defeat
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Perspective