Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

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

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

A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.
—Chinese Proverb

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
—Chinese Proverb

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Thought, Decisions, Wisdom

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: Time Management, Management, Aspirations, Goals

Better a live beggar than a dead king.
—Chinese Proverb

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
—Chinese Proverb

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
—Chinese Proverb

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

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Perfection

It is easier to visit your friends than to live with them.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Friendship

Get the coffin ready and the man won’t die.
—Chinese Proverb

Elephant tusks cannot grow out of a dog’s mouth.
—Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.
—Chinese Proverb

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

Practice no vice because it’s trivial… Neglect no virtue because it’s so.
—Chinese Proverb

A bamboo tree grows six inches in the first nineteen years and twenty feet in its twentieth year. The best time to plant a bamboo tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Time Management

Those who cause divisions, in order to injure other people; are in fact preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
—Chinese Proverb

Every book must be chewed to get out its juice.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Book

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

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

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
—Chinese Proverb

The door to virtue is heavy and hard to push.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Virtue

If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a month—get married. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help someone else.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Feelings, Kindness, Helpfulness, Happiness

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Tolerance

There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
—Chinese Proverb

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

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

Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning.
—Chinese Proverb

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Vision

Enjoy yourself—it’s later than you think.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Carpe-diem

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

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Carpe-diem

When you go to dig a grave for your enemy, dig two.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Enemies

When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
—Chinese Proverb