Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

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

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Knowledge

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

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

That man who knows too many trades… his family starves.
—Chinese Proverb

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

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

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Learning, Proverbs

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Heaven

Before you beat the dog, find out the name of his master.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Animals

The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober to observe a drunken person.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness

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

If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Advice

A curious woman is capable of turning around the rainbow just to see what is on the other side.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Rain

The roast duck can fly no more.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Flying

Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Change

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs

Take a second look… It costs you nothing.
—Chinese Proverb

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
—Chinese Proverb

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Smiling, Attitude

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

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Gratitude, Proverbs, Memory

Peace and tranquility are a thousand gold pieces.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Peace

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Health

Garden flowers larger, field flowers stronger.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Garden

He who travels a lot becomes wise; he who is wise stays home.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Home

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Business

The dog in the kennel barks at his fleas; the dog that hunts does not feel them.
—Chinese Proverb

Always leave a little room for a mistake.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Mistakes

It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one’s family.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Kings