Inspirational Quotations by Chinese Proverb

  • A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
    From Issue 4
  • There is a great man who makes every man
    feel small. But the really great man is
    the man who makes every man feel great.
    From Issue 7
  • There are many paths to the top of the mountain,
    But the view is always the same.
    From Issue 16
  • If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
    If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
    If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
    If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
    From Issue 26
  • Simplicity of character is the
    most natural result of profound thought.
    From Issue 61
  • Deal with the faults of others
    as gently as with your own.
    From Issue 68
  • Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck,
    leads the flock to fly and follow.
    From Issue 70
  • Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
    From Issue 76
  • If there is light in the soul,
    There will be beauty in the person.
    If there is beauty in the person,
    There will be harmony in the house.
    If there is harmony in the house,
    There will be order in the nation.
    If there is order in the nation,
    There will be peace in the world.
    From Issue 89
  • He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
    but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
    From Issue 90
  • I hear and I forget,
    I see and I remember,
    I do and I understand.
    From Issue 93
  • When eating bamboo sprouts,
    remember the man who planted them.
    From Issue 98
  • If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain.
    If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.
    If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
    From Issue 99
  • A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
    From Issue 107
  • To attract good fortune,
    spend a new coin on an old friend,
    share an old pleasure with a new friend,
    and lift up the heart of a true friend
    by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
    From Issue 120
  • Take a second look ...
    it costs you nothing.
    Topic: Caution
    From Issue 126
  • Be not afraid of growing slowly,
    be afraid only of standing still.
    Topic: Growth
    From Issue 127
  • A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
    From Issue 130
  • Teachers open the door,
    but you must enter by yourself.
    From Issue 160
  • A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.
    From Issue 182
  • The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago.
    The second best time is now.
    From Issue 234
  • A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.
    From Issue 240
  • A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
    From Issue 246
  • Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning.
    From Issue 247
  • Great doubts deep wisdom...
    Small doubts little wisdom.
    From Issue 291
  • If I keep a green bough in my heart,
    the singing bird will come.
    From Issue 291
  • Practice no vice because it's trivial...
    Neglect no virtue because it's so.
    From Issue 294
  • Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come;
    do not vainly regret what is already past.
    From Issue 298
  • The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
    From Issue 318
  • Climb mountains to see lowlands.
    From Issue 323
  • There is but one way to be born but a hundred ways to die.
    Topic: Death
    From Issue 326
  • It is the beautiful bird that gets caged.
    Topic: Beauty
    From Issue 332
  • The door to virtue is heavy and hard to push.
    Topic: Virtue
    From Issue 333
  • Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
    Topic: Carpe-diem
    From Issue 343
  • Talk doesn't cook rice.
    From Issue 362
  • Don't curse the darkness -- light a candle.
    From Issue 362
  • The tongue is like a sharp knife; it kills without drawing blood.
    From Issue 362
  • Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
    From Issue 362
  • Flowers leave their fragrance on the hand that bestows them.
    From Issue 362
  • Slander cannot destroy the man ... when the flood recedes, the rock is there.
    From Issue 362
  • Towers are measured by their shadows, and men of merit by those who are envious of them.
    From Issue 362
  • Who thinks an inch, but talks a yard, needs a kick in the foot.
    From Issue 362
  • What you cannot avoid, welcome.
    From Issue 362
  • When you go to dig a grave for your enemy, dig two.
    From Issue 362
  • When you put on your clothes, remember the weaver's labor; when you take your daily food, remember the husbandman's work.
    From Issue 362
  • If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
    From Issue 362
  • A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
    From Issue 362
  • Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
    From Issue 362
  • Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.
    From Issue 362
  • If you want your dinner, don't offend the cook.
    From Issue 362
  • If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
    From Issue 362
  • Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
    From Issue 362
  • Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
    From Issue 362
  • Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
    From Issue 362
  • I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.
    From Issue 362
  • The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. But the second best time is today.
    From Issue 362
  • Those who cause divisions, in order to injure other people; are in fact preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
    From Issue 362
  • Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.
    From Issue 362
  • A journey of a thousand miles must begin with one step.
    From Issue 362

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