Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Learning

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.
—Chinese Proverb

Kissing is like drinking salted water. You drink, and your thirst increases.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Kiss, Kisses, Funny quotes

The first time you cheat me, be ashamed. The second time it is I who must be ashamed.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Cheating

It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Book

If a girl seems as shy as a mouse, you still have to look out for the tiger within her.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Girls

Present to the eye, present to the mind.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Gifts

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Activism

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Parents

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Fortune

If you want your dinner, don’t offend the cook.
—Chinese Proverb

One body cannot perform two services.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: The Body, Performance

Abroad we judge the dress; at home we judge the man.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Home

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Law

He who was presented with an ox must give in return a horse.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Gifts

From Nanking to Beijing, buyers are never as smart as the sellers.
—Chinese Proverb

Slander cannot destroy the man … when the flood recedes, the rock is there.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Insults

Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly.
—Chinese Proverb

Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it? Life just gives you time and space—It’s up to you to fill it.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Joy

He who knows his heart mistrusts his eyes.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Eyes, Heart

Great doubts
deep wisdom…
Small doubts
little wisdom.
—Chinese Proverb

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Questions

A maker of idols is never an idolater.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Religion

To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Ambition

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Family

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men’s clothes.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Wisdom, Think, Learning

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Teaching, Teach

With money you can buy a house, but not a home.
—Chinese Proverb

One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: The Truth

He who flatters me is my enemy, who blames me is my teacher.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Enemies