Japanese Quotes & Proverbs.

1. Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away.
2. Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.
3. Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
4. One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.
5. You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too.
6. Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
7. The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
8. When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there.
9. One kind word can warm three winter months.
10. The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
11. Fix the problem, not the blame.
12. When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.
13. Fall seven times, stand up eight.
14. One kindness is the price of another.
15. Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black.
16. The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
17. The mouth is the door of evil.
18. The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
19. The reverse side also has a reverse side.
20. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
21. Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
22. To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.
23. Virtue is not knowing but doing.
24. We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
25. Walls have ears, bottles have mouths.