Counting Proverbs

Sayings about Counting

People keep counting the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~ French Proverb

Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Always count the cost. ~ American Proverb

Many people count other people's faults and ignore their own. ~ Burmese Proverb

Count not what is lost but what is left. ~ Chinese Proverb

With a bottle and a girl one does not count the hours. ~ Polish Proverb

There is no accounting for tastes. ~ Traditional Proverb

Counted sheep are eaten by the wolf. ~ French Proverb

Do not count the eggs that are in the chicken's ass. ~ Guadeloupe Proverb

You can count the apples on a tree but you can't count the trees from one apple. ~ Gypsy Proverb

Quotations about Counting

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~ Author Unknown

Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples? ~ Dottie Walters

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacy to the world. ~ Publilius Syrus

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. ~ Robert Browning

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones. ~ Jean Webster

The fellow, who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~ Author Unknown

One should count each day a separate life. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count. ~ Wolfman Jack Smith

If we had a countdown timer on our lives, we wouldn't waste a minute. ~ Author Unknown

Intentions count in your actions. ~ Abu Bakr

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! ~ Edwin C. Bliss

Purchased experiences don't count. ~ Doug Coupland

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. ~ Frank Burford

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious. ~ Author Unknown

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward with the life that God intended for you with. ~ Og Mandino

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~ Mark Twain

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Teach us to give and not count the cost. ~ St. Ignatius Loyola

If you count all your assets you always show a profit. ~ Robert Quillen

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. ~ Merry Browne

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. ~ Kin Hubbard

How long will it take us to learn that there are only two things in life that really count -- one is character and the other is human sympathy. ~ Author Unknown

Many of the things you can count don't count. Many of the things you can't count really count. ~ Albert Einstein

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ~ Ausonius

Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are. ~ Racheal Gordon

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~ Eric Hoffer

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count. ~ Robert Lloyd

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Don't just count your years, make your years count. ~ Ernest Meyers

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book. ~ George Herbert

Happy the man who can count his sufferings. ~ Ovid

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. ~ Aesop

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. ~ J. Paul Getty

Between Caring & Counting: Teachers Take on Education Reform. ~ Book preview