Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Chinese Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

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

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Secrets of Success

If you want your children to enjoy a quiet life let them suffer a little hunger and a little cold.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment

Enough shovels of earth—a mountain. Enough pails of water—a river.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Growth

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Simplicity, Proverbs

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Procrastination, Getting Going, Inaction

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Time Management, Time

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

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Happiness

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs

The rich add riches to riches; the poor add years to years.
—Chinese Proverb

Justice is the result of public opinion.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Public opinion

Some prefer carrots while others like cabbage.
—Chinese Proverb

Drunkards talk to the gods.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Humankind, Action

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

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Follow, Learning, Learn, Will, Proverbs, Education

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

We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Gratitude

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

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

Men see only the present; heaven sees the future.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Future, Heaven

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

To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Business

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

A red-nosed man may not be a drunkard, but he will always be called one.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness

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

To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Ancestors

The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
—Chinese Proverb
Topics: Rain

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