I leave you a list of Japanese proverbs that will help you reflect, share and dedicate to your loved ones. Japanese culture is characterized by respect, practicality, manners, humility, wisdom, hard work, and diligence.
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-After the rain, the soil hardens.
-The one who arrives earlier wins.
-If you fall seven times, then get up eight.
-A wise man does not lose his way, just as the brave man is not afraid.
-If you take shelter in the shade, do it under a large tree.
-Although shrimp can dance, they do not leave the river.
-When the character of a man does not seem clear to you, observe his friends.
-Meet someone is just the beginning of farewell.
-Preferable, instead of being the head of the sardine, to be the tail of the bream.
-Fate is on the side of the brave.
-Don't be afraid to go slow, be afraid to remain static.
-The song of the bird is the same everywhere.
-The newly learned tactics are the origin of big mistakes.
- Luck is unpredictable and can always change.
-Bamboo that bends, is stronger than oak that resists.
-The friends are known in adversity.
-Time flies like an arrow.
-We are but candles lit in the wind.
-A learner who is near the temple, will recite the scriptures without having learned them.
-Instead of worrying, the strong man wears a smile.
-The medicine is bitter for the mouth.
-Even one who is stupid has a talent.
-Learn about the good and bad qualities of other people.
-There is nothing more terrible than a fool and a madman.
-The monkeys laugh at the butts of other monkeys.
-All that is mixed with red ink, turns red.
-Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about him.
-As one acts, one receives.
-Don't spill water on the hot stone.
-Don't give up at the first sign of difficulty.
-Money grows on the tree of persistence.
-Both handcuffs and mattresses are better when they are new.
-Each one has their own tastes.
-Too many boatmen will drive the ship to the top of the mountains.
-Don't let your daughter-in-law eat the fall eggplants.
-Everybody makes mistakes. That is why there is an eraser on each pencil.
-Don't give a cat a gold coin.
-Love lives both in palaces and in thatched-roof huts.
-The darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
-Every day, walk one more step towards your goals.
-The weak are meat, the strong eat.
-Learn from the past to know the future.
-For falling in love there is no medicine.
-Life lasts a generation; a good name is forever.
-There's no use trying to bite your belly button.
-If irrationality comes, reason leaves.
-Heated passion soon cools down.
-When cordiality overflows, it becomes flattery.
-Virtue is not knowing, but doing.
-Bird that leaves, leaves no mess in its nest.
-In knowing that one knows what one knows and in knowing that one does not know what one does not know, there lies the wisdom.
-After the victory, please adjust your helmet strap.
-A fool at forty is a real fool.
-One only lives once, so take advantage of unique opportunities.
-Respect the elderly and be kind to children.
-He who sees righteousness and does not practice it, is not brave.
-Love goes beyond reflection.
-Large fish do not live in a small pond.
-A frog in a pond does not know the greatness of the ocean.
-The neighbor's grass always seems to be greener.
-Talk about tomorrow and the mice on the roof will laugh.
-A cornered rat will not hesitate to bite the cat.
-Sight without action is like daydreaming. And action without vision is a nightmare.
-You can tolerate the pain of others even for three years.
- Waking up early benefits you in three pence.
-Where there are many flowers, fruits are scarce.
-If you shake the bush, the snake comes out.
-Broken mirror cannot shine again.
-In summer the heater, and in winter the fan.
-The beginning is like the head of a dragon, big and majestic, and the end is like the tail of the serpent, small and pathetic.
-The fear is only as deep as the mind allows it.
-The reputation of a thousand years can be determined by the conduct of one hour.
-If you curse someone else, then there will be two graves.
-It is better to travel with optimism than to arrive disappointed.
-Great men are successful at an advanced age.
-You can know ten things by learning just one.
-Half an hour on a spring afternoon is worth gold.
-When someone is hungry, there is no such thing as bad food.
-With the first glass, the man drinks wine; With the second cup, the wine takes wine; and with the third cup, the wine is taken from the man.
-Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow.
-Don't go into a field of melons, or stay under the cherry tree.
-Heaven helps those who help themselves.
-Knowing and acting are one and the same.
-Having many skills implies that we do not master any.
-The facts are above theory.
-The smallest good deed is better than the greatest good intention.
-It's foolish to deal with a fool.
-You can only tolerate the weaknesses of others by knowing yours.
-If you wait, the nectar will come, like good weather.
-Nail that sticks out, is hammered.
-Even a snake of a few centimeters will try outrageously to engulf a man.
-The fool always finds a bigger fool who admires him.
-Reality cannot compete with imagination.
-Rome was not built in a day.
-Even even a lonely murmur in a well is known after three years.
-With many small blows, the great tree is toppled.
-Hawk who is talented, hides his claws.
-The true resistance consists in resisting what is resistible.
-Take the initiative and you will win.
-The reverse of things also has a reverse.
-A kind word can help you stay warm for three winter months.
-Sake reveals the truth of the heart.
-Charcoal will sometimes also host flowers.
-After adversity, pleasures arrive.
-With the help of devotion, even the head of the sardine can be made venerable.
-Two things cannot be done at the same time.
-A single arrow breaks easily, but not ten in a bunch.
-Adversity is the foundation of virtue.
-The doubtful mind creates demons in the dark.
-Even at the top there is the highest part.
-Control your emotions, or they will control you.
-Those with difficulties to express themselves are the ones who speak the most.
-When you are thirsty, it is too late to think about digging a well.
-Even monkeys fall out of trees.
-The books are minds that have been preserved.
-He who travels for love, realizes that a thousand kilometers are not longer than one.
-Don't waste your time on something else when you're in the middle of a job.
-Fortune will knock at the door of the one who smiles.
-Without knowing the truth, you can be at peace like Buddha.
-The substance is preferable to trinkets.
-The eyes are the mirrors of the soul.
-We recognize talent when we see it, because there are people who lack it.
-Having something is better than nothing.
-The heart is the most essential of human qualities.
-A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words can be really harsh depending on how you say them.
-If you make a mistake, feel free to correct it.
-Faith can move mountains.
-In the rich man's house there is no skinny dog.
-The inferiors have others below them, just as the superiors have others above them.
-Turn bad situations into successes.
-When you hide your head, don't forget to hide your butt as well.
-If you understand everything, then you must be misinformed.
-The son of the frog, a frog is.
-Everything that goes down, will have to go up again.
-Do you need proof from God? Do you need to light a torch to see the sun?
- Luck exists in the last of the resources.
-We are fools regardless of whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
-He who knows more, speaks less.
-The rich people have many worries.
-If we try to look into the future, everything is dark.
-We learn so little from victory and so much from defeat.
-When people are alike, they call each other friends.
-A padded jacket is an acceptable gift even in summer.
-Although the owl has large eyes, it cannot see as well as the mouse.
-More than chasing the cat, take the plate.
-One cannot fight without an opponent.
-Too much ambition leads to failure.
-Even when the months and days are long, life is short.
-A meeting of three people can create wisdom.
-Dirty money does not stay with a person for long.
-The monetary debts are paid more easily than those of gratitude.
-Extraordinary love becomes hatred multiplied by a hundred, if it is betrayed.
-Feed a dog for three days and he will be grateful for three years. Feed a cat for three years, and it will forget after three days.
-A bad wife is the omen of a hundred years of bad harvests.
-If one gets intoxicated, one might well lick the plate.
-The one who smiles instead of bursting out of anger is always the strongest.
-The tongue is only three inches long, and it can still kill a six-foot man.
-Of the flowers, the most important is the cherry blossom; and of men, the warrior.
-Wherever you live, you will end up loving your home.
-Comment gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
-The consequences of bad things are also bad.
-The prime of life does not come twice.
-If the morning is cloudy it will clear in the afternoon.
-Even the pack donkey rider looks good in the right outfit.
-When eaten alone, even sea bream loses its flavor.
-When a dog barks for nothing, the other dogs bark sincerely.
-It is better to stop reading altogether than to believe everything you read.
-What one likes, one does well.
-The similarities are great compared to the differences, which are small.
-If you don't enter the tiger's cave, you won't be able to capture its baby.
-When three women get together, the atmosphere becomes noisy.
-The character of people never changes.
-When willows are green, their flowers are red.
-Drunk life, dream death.
-Unless an idiot dies, then there is no cure.
-The thistle flowers last only a moment.
-If you are a beggar for three days, you will not be able to stop being one.
-The stupider a child is, the more loved it is.
-If they take something from you, you will gain something else.
-Wisdom and virtue are like two wheels on the same car.
-The faster you are, the more laps you give.
-The day you decide to do it will be your lucky day.
-The little dishonesties and lies lead to the big ones; and in the end, to disaster.
-Eating in moderation keeps the doctor away.
-He who chases two rabbits, does not catch any.
-If pushing doesn't work, try pulling.
-Flower that has fallen, does not return to its branch.
-Some people like to make a garden out of life, and walk alone within its paths.
-The crying face is stung by a bee.
-The eyes are capable of as eloquence as the mouth.
-Our strengths have the potential to become our weak points.
-The elderly are the treasures of all.
-If you look at the sky, there are no limits.
-Everywhere, there is always a powerful person controlling things in the background.
-Poor is the person who does not know when he has had enough.
-Large trees are often envied by the wind.
-Her standing silhouette looks like a Chinese peony, her sitting figure looks like a tree peony, and her walking silhouette looks like a lily.
-Ignorance is a blessing.
-Keep the soul of a three-year-old child until you are one hundred.
-Cat that meows, does not eat mice.
-Cold tea and rice are tolerable, but cold looks and words are not.
-When someone has money, even with the fool many will agree.
-Don't count the skins of badgers that you haven't yet caught.
-Continuity is also power.
-No man is a hero in the eyes of his servant.
-Repentance never comes first.
-Sometimes another poison is necessary to combat the poison.
-We must never forget our beginner spirit.
-The heat of summer or the cold of winter lasts until the equinox.
-It is useless to squeeze the buttocks if the flatulence has already gone.
-The potential of our abilities must be developed.
-An anthill can cause an embankment to collapse.
- Bragging begins where wisdom ends.
-You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo stick.
-The person who admits his ignorance shows it only once; he who tries to hide it, shows it very often.
-Nothing is impossible for those who have enough faith; not just religious faith, but any strong belief in a cause or goal.
-It is better to write something once than to read it ten times.
-The man only needs half a mattress when he is awake and a full mattress when he sleeps.
-When the berry falls, it falls on the roots of the bush.
-Forgive and forget; let the water flow under the bridge.
-Sometimes the galloping horse also needs a whip.
-Without the oars, you cannot cross by boat.
-Let the past flow downstream.
-Tomorrow is tomorrow, and today is today.
-Perseverance is power.
-Thanks to the presence of fools, the wise stand out.
-It is better to be glass and be broken, than to be a tile on the roof of a house.
-Even if they don't eat much, the poor live in peace.
-Even when you are busy, there is occasionally time to take a break.
-The truth usually comes out between jokes.
-Unless you accept the ideas and customs of others, you will not be able to survive in this world.
-Village you go to, do as their villagers.
-Our life remains the same, it does not matter if we spend it laughing or crying.
-Spilled water does not return to your tray.
-A charred snake easily catches fire.
-When you are in love, even your pimples look like dimples.
-The tadpoles will soon turn into frogs.
-Fish do not live where the water is transparent.
-The wisdom gained through experience is better than the shell of the turtle.
-The condition of birth determines a lot, but upbringing is more important.
-When there is sun, cultivate; when it rains, read.
-Starting is easy, what is difficult is continuing.
-A whole country can go to ruin, but its mountains and rivers still stand.
-Even a thousand-step adventure begins with the first.
-If you try to do things, you could be successful. If you don't try to do them, you will never be successful. This is true of all things. Lack of success is the consequence of not trying.