List of Proverbs based on Various Skills

Semester 1 

Proverbs on Listening skills 

a. Listening is the beginning of understanding.... Wisdom is the reward of a lifetime of listening.

b. Listening requires more intelligence than speaking.

c. To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.

d. Talk becomes an argument when one person stops listening.

e. Listening looks easy, but it is not simple. Every head is a world.

f. Who speaks sows; who listens reaps.

g. Eat what is cooked; listen to what is said.

h. Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.

i. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

j. The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverbs on Teamwork skills 

a. United we stand, divided we fall.

b. Two heads are better than one.

c. Many hands make light work.

d. Many hands can shatter stout walls.

e. Gnats, in great numbers, can beat an elephant.

f. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

g. Every spark adds to the fire.

h. A monk cannot shave his own head.

i. A single tree cannot make a forest.

j. When a husband and wife agree with each other, they can dry up the ocean with buckets.

Proverbs on Emotional Intelligence skills 

a. Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

b. Do unto others as you would wish to be done unto you.

c. Faults are thick when love is thin.

d. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

e. If you know what hurts yourself, you know what hurts others.

f. A soft answer turns away anger.

g. Hate destroys the one who hates more than the one who is hated.

h. Anger is a bad adviser.

i. Where there is a will there is a way.

j. Good people think about the feelings of their animals.

Proverbs on Problem Solving skills 

a. Every cloud has a silver lining.

b. God helps those who help themselves.

c. There is no use crying over spilt milk.

d. Where there is a will there is a way.

e. Necessity is the mother of invention.

f. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

g. When you see an arrow that is not going to miss you, throw out your chest and meet it head on.

h. There are no cakes without work.

Semester 3

Proverbs on Empathy skills

1. You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
2. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
3. Whenever you feel like criticising anyone…Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantageous that you’ve had.
4. I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display..
5. Yet, taught by time, my heart has learnt to glow for others’ good, and melt at others.
6. When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him. (Euripides)
7. Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? (Marcus Aurelius)
8. Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. (Mohsin Hamid)
9. A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.(Daniel Goleman)
10. Empathy needs no genius. (Toba Beta)

Proverbs on Positivity skills

a. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. (Arabian)

b. It is never winter in the land of hope. (Russian)

c. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. (R. L. Stevenson)

d. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. (English)

Proverbs on Professional skills

 

1.      Duty knows no family. (Japanese)
2.    He is not to blame who does his duty. (Mexican)
3.    The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. (Native American)
4.    Duty before devotion. (Mexican)
5.     Higher duties means greater responsibilities. (Albanian)
6.    A great position entails great responsibility. (Spanish)
7.     Never step over one duty to perform another. (English)
8.    Duty is the most sublime word in our language (Nordic)
9.    Duty done is the soul’s fireside. (American)
10.   It is a man’s duty to go as far as he can on the right road. (American)