Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Soong Mei-ling (Chinese Political Figure)

Sòng Měilíng (1898–2003,) also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure. She was the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek, and the first lady of the Republic of China 1928–75.

Born in Shanghai to a successful, prosperous, and well-connected family, Sòng Měilíng was educated in America, graduating from Wellesley College in 1927. She was thoroughly Americanized and helped Chiang Kai-shek with Western ideas. In 1934, the couple launched the New Life Movement, a program to teach traditional Chinese values and control the spread of communism.

During a life that traversed three centuries, Sòng Měilíng was one of the leading women in twentieth-century China, becoming a crucial advisor to Chiang Kai-shek on foreign affairs. When civil war broke out in the mid-1940s, Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist forces were defeated in 1949, and Sòng Měilíng and her family moved to Taiwan, where her husband established a government. Sòng Měilíng’s sister Sòng Qinglíng was the wife of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Sòng Měilíng rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and, in 1943, embarked on an eight-month speaking tour of America to secure political support. In 1943, she became the first Chinese person ever to address both the houses of the U.S. Congress.

Sòng Měilíng was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary roles. Her published works include This Is Our China (1940,) The Sure Victory (1955,) and two volumes of selected speeches.

Wan Xuan Qin Feng wrote An Illustrated Biography of Sòng Měilíng (2012.)

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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Meditation

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Politicians, Politics

I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Prayer

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Flying, Government, Accomplishment

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Prayer

We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Destiny

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Reflection, The Present, Past, Present

We become what we do.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Doing Your Best

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
Soong Mei-ling
Topics: Peace

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