Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Parents

Who thinks an inch, but talks a yard, needs a kick in the foot.
—Chinese Proverb

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

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Understanding

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

You can be cautious about the future but not the past.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Past, Future

Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Simplicity

Only through the eyes of others can we really see our own faults.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Eyes

Heavenly music is interpreted differently by everyone.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Heaven

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.
—Chinese Proverb

To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Dreams

It is always easier for one man to solve another man’s problem.
—Chinese Proverb

The advice of a clever woman can ruin a strong town.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Cleverness, Advice

Life is but a journey; death is returning home.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Life

The flowers in your garden don’t smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Garden

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Uncertainty, Certainty

The journey is the reward.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Achievement, General, Success & Failure, Journeys

Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness

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

Women are as beautiful as flowers when they are forty years old.
—Chinese Proverb

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Memory, Revenge

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Resilience, Miscellaneous, Proverbs, Growth, Patience, Progress

Teachers open the door… You enter by yourself.
—Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

He who has never been cheated, cannot be a good businessman.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Cheating, Business

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Knowledge

I dreamed a thousand new paths… I woke and walked my old one.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Dreams

Who is narrow minded cannot be bighearted.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Open-mindedness

When the tiger comes down from the mountain
to the plains, it is bullied by the dogs.
—Chinese Proverb

He who keeps the hills, burns the wood; he who keeps the streams drinks the water.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Nature

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

The day your horse dies and your money’s gone, your relatives change into strangers.
—Chinese Proverb

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
—Chinese Proverb

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

Great blessings come from heaven; small blessings come from man.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Heaven, Blessings

The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.
—Chinese Proverb

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Foolishness, Shame, Fools, Proverbs

It is the beautiful bird that gets caged.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Beauty