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70+ Famous Japanese Quotes About Love And Life

Japan is a country with centuries of deep culture and thoughtful philosophy to draw inspirational strength from, whether it be from samurai times to today. Whether you are looking for quotes from the 12th century text The Tale of Genji or the megalomaniac ramblings of Dio Brando, the villain of the anime Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, there is a treasure trove to choose from. All the great and famed quotes you could ever ask for from the great nation of Japan from across the ages are here, from quotes on loving to living and everything in between.
If you try, you may succeed.
If you don’t try, you will not succeed. This is true for of all things.
Not succeeding is the result of not trying.
Japanese proverb

Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Japanese proverb

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese proverb

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Japanese proverb

Ten different people bring ten different colors.
Japanese proverb

Boasting begins where wisdom stops
Japanese proverb

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese proverb

Even when months and days are long, life is short.
Japanese proverb

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.
Japanese proverb

No road is too long in the company of a friend.
Japanese proverb

Spilled water does not return to the tray
Japanese proverb

With many little strokes a large tree is felled.
Japanese proverb

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed
Japanese proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese proverb

What you love to do,
you will learn to do well.
Japanese proverb

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Japanese proverb

Eat before falling in love.
Japanese proverb

Nothing so visible than what you want to hide.
Japanese proverb

A doubtful mind creates devils in the dark.
Japanese proverb

Fall down seven times, get up eight
Japanese proverb

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Japanese proverb

Beginning is easy – Continuing is hard.
Japanese proverb

Great men succeed in their later years.
Japanese proverb

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Japanese proverb

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
Japanese proverb

Depend on your walking stick, not on other people.
Japanese proverb

Nothing is more expensive than free.
Japanese proverb

We learn little from victory, much from defeat
Japanese proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger
Japanese proverb

The extreme form of passionate love is secret love.
Japanese proverb

We should never forget our beginner’s spirit
Japanese proverb

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japanese proverb

A broken mirror can not be made to shine.
Japanese proverb

Wherever you live, you come to love it.
Japanese proverb

Many skills is no skill.
Japanese proverb

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day
Japanese proverb

When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell.
Japanese proverb

In the eyes of a lover a pock-marked face is one with pretty dimples.
Japanese proverb

All married women are not wives.
Japanese proverb

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
Japanese proverb

When you do something wholeheartedly, you are not in need of helpers.
Japanese proverb

Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so learn about yourself.

Japanese proverb

Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
Japanese proverb

Even a fool has at least one talent.
Japanese proverb

You don’t have to die heaven and hell are in this world too.
Japanese proverb

Men and women are never placed too far apart to be near.
Japanese proverb

The face becomes a mirror of the soul.
Japanese proverb

Once dead the good and the bad are covered by the same moss.
Japanese proverb

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials
Japanese proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old.
Japanese proverb

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.
Japanese proverb

When someone offends you, you haven’t given him enough love.
Japanese proverb

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Japanese proverb

The prime of your life does not come twice.
Japanese proverb

After three years useless things are useful too.
Japanese proverb

Drunken life, dreamy death.
Japanese proverb

Cold tea and cold rice are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.
Japanese proverb

Money grows on the tree of Persistence.
Japanese proverb

Each moment only once
Japanese proverb

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese proverb

Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.
Japanese proverb

Concentrate on the first steps rather than the entire journey.
Japanese proverb

There is no need to bait the fish you’ve already caught.
Japanese proverb

Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun.
Japanese proverb

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
Japanese proverb

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still
Japanese proverb

When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there.
Japanese proverb

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
Japanese proverb

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Japanese proverb

There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred.
Japanese proverb

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