Best Japanese Quotes About Life, Friendship, Death & Love

Popular Japanese Quotes

1. “To continue is power.”
2. “The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.”
3. “If you want to know what’s happening in the market, ask the market.”
4. “Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.”
5. “A bat in a village without birds.”
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7. “There are hardships and there are delights.”
8. “When poisoned, one might as well swallow the plate.”
9. “Early rising benefits you three pence.”
10. “Putting the cart before the horse.”
11. “The early one wins.”
12. “Even a lone mutter in a well is known after three years.”
13. “Wisdom gotten from age is better than the shell of a tortoise.”
14. “Friends are known first in hardships.” ,Japanese Quotes about friendship
15. “If you do not enter the tiger’s cave, you will not catch its cub.”
16. “A berry falls to (its tree’s) roots.”
17. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
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19. “With many little strokes a large tree is felled.”
20. “A leaving bird does not leave a mess.”
21. “With such father there is such a child.”
22. “Let flow in the water.” [ Meaning: Forgive and forget; water under the bridge]
23. “[to stay] three years on a rock.” [Meaning: perseverance by encouraging one to see an enterprise through to its conclusion.]
24. “We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
25. “To continue is power.”
26. “Even monkeys fall from trees.”
27. “Good medicine is bitter to the mouth.”
28. “Cold tea and cold rice are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.”
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30. “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
31. “The tongue is three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.”
32. “Even when months and days are long, life is short.” ,Japanese Quotes about life
33. “The reputation of thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”
34. “Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.”
35. “Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still.”
36. “We learn little from victory, much from defeat.”
37. “If you understand everything you must be misinformed.”
38. “One kind word can warm three winter months.”
39. “The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak tree that resists.”
40. “Boasting begins where wisdom stops.”
41. “The face becomes a mirror of the soul.”
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43. “One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.”
44. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
45. “The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.”
46. “Luck exists in the leftovers.”
47. “Summer heater winter fan.”
48. “Wake from death and return to life.”
49. “One’s Act, One’s profit/Advantage.”
50. “Spilt water will not return to the tray.”
51. “Continuance (also) is power/strength.”
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53. “An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught.”
54. “Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about it.”
55. “Unless an idiot dies, he won’t be cured.”
56. “After the rain, earth hardens.”
57. “Ten men, ten colors.”
58. “Pulling water to my own rice paddy.”
59. “Evil cause, evil effect.”
60. “The weak are meat; the strong eat.”
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62. “Ocean thousand mountain thousand.”
63. “Drunken life, dreamy death.” ,Japanese Quotes about death
64. “One life, one encounter.”
65. “The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.”
66. “Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather.”
67. “One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.”
68. “A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.” ,Japanese Quotes about love
69. “Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.”
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71. “Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms.”
72. “When you’re dying of thirst it’s too late to think about digging a well.”
73. “The nail that stands out will be hammered down.”
74. “If he works for you, you work for him.”
    

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