Recommended Reading
- ‘500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions‘ by Liwei Jiao, Benjamin Stone
- ‘The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs‘ by Jonathan Clements
- ‘Chinese Proverbs‘ by Ruthanne Lum, Hu Yong Yi, K.L. Kiu
- ‘Chinese Illustrated Dictionary‘ by McGraw-Hill
Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes
The journey is the reward.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: General, Success & Failure, Journeys, Achievement
Your friend has a friend; don’t tell him.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Gossip
It is difficult to repay the gifts you get at a wedding or a funeral.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Gifts, Weddings
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Heart, Singing, Attitude, Proverbs
When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Future
Those who cause divisions, in order to injure other people; are in fact preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
—Chinese Proverb
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Helpfulness, Kindness, Giving, Charity, Happiness, Goodwill
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Mindsets, Optimism, Positive Attitudes, Attitude
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
The brave person regards dying as going home.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Home
Seeking fish? Don’t dive in the pond; go home and get a net.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Home
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Fortune
To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Business
Towers are measured by their shadows, and men of merit by those who are envious of them.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Merit
When the tiger comes down from the mountain
to the plains, it is bullied by the dogs.
—Chinese Proverb
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Enemy, Victory, Proverbs
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Wisdom, Virtues
To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Ancestors
He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Cheating, Praise, Proverbs
A maker of IDOLS is never an idolater.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Beauty, Flowers
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Family
He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Fear, Anxiety
Of all the female qualities a warm heart is the most valuable.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Heart
Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Learning
If you always give, you will always have.
—Chinese Proverb
The rich add riches to riches; the poor add years to years.
—Chinese Proverb
A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.
—Chinese Proverb
Of a dead leopard we keep the skin, of man his reputation.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Reputation
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Vision, Journeys
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