Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Questions, Fools, Foolishness

If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate your children.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Wilderness, Proverbs

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Enemies, Anger, Enemy

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Children

One step at a time is good walking.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Planning, Walking, Proverbs

It is often more difficult to come back home than it is to go away.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Home

A man grows most tired while standing still.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Work

Even the most beautiful morning cannot bring back the evening.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Morning

Do not employ handsome servants.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Work

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Conversation, Book, Wise, Sin, Learning, Wisdom

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

When one dog barks at a shadow, a hundred bark at the sound.
—Chinese Proverb

If you always give, you will always have.
—Chinese Proverb

Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Book

The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don’t know what poverty means.
—Chinese Proverb

Better a live beggar than a dead king.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Kings

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Wine

Teach your son in the front garden and your wife on the pillow.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Garden

For each man produced by heaven, earth provides a grave.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Heaven

A good memory is not so good as a little ink.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Memory

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

With virtue you can’t be entirely poor; without virtue you can’t really be rich.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Virtue, The Poor, Poverty, Virtues

Politeness wins the confidence of princes
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Confidence, Proverbs

The palest ink is better than the best memory.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Memories, Memory

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Wisdom

Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Candor, Friendship, Critics, Criticism

If heaven drops a date, open your mouth.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Heaven

Better return and make a net, than to go down to the stream and merely wish for fish.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Desires

The happiness in your pocket, don’t spend it all.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Happiness

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Humor, Proverbs, Fools

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

Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years.
—Chinese Proverb

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs

A picture is worth ten thousand words.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Photography

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Goals, Time Management, Aspirations, Management

One does not insult the river god while crossing the river.
—Chinese Proverb

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.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Fortune

Every letter must be chewed before you can refresh yourself with its juice.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Fresh

There is but one way to be born but a hundred ways to die.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Death