Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

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

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Attitude, Singing, Proverbs

Water and words, easy to pour, impossible to recover.
—Chinese Proverb

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

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

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Teaching

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. But the second best time is today.
—Chinese Proverb

A little impatience…
Big plans ruined.
—Chinese Proverb

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
—Chinese Proverb

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

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

Take a second look … it costs you nothing.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Caution

The roast duck can fly no more.
—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

Climb mountains to see lowlands.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Growth

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, Happiness, Helpfulness, Kindness

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

What you cannot avoid, welcome.
—Chinese Proverb

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

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

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Thought, Thinking, Thoughts

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Anger

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

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

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

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

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
—Chinese Proverb

Talk doesn’t cook rice.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Action

Flowers leave their fragrance on the hand that bestows them.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Gardening, Proverbs, Flowers

The tongue is like a sharp knife; it kills without drawing blood.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Speech

One joy shatters a hundred griefs.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Happiness, Proverbs

If you know what you know and know what you don’t know-that is true wisdom.
—Chinese Proverb

Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
—Chinese Proverb

True love never grows old.
—Chinese Proverb