Inspirational Chinese Proverbs
Inspirational Chinese Proverbs
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
There are always ears on the other side of the wall.
A rumour goes in one ear and out many mouths.
He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.
Being in the right does not depend on having a loud voice
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
Easy to know men's faces, not their hearts.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
A book holds a house of gold.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Our enemies teach us life's most valuable lesson.
Water and words are easy to pour but impossible to recover.
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
If you want to avoid being cheated, ask for prices at three different stores.
Victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.
When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
A fool's heart is found in his mouth.
When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow.
Life is a dream walking death is a going home.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
If a son is uneducated, his father is to blame.
An ignorant doctor is no better than a murderer.
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
A man's conversation is the mirror of his thoughts.
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
Do not forget little kindnesses and do not remember small faults.
Dangerous enemies will meet again in narrow streets.
A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
For the sake of one good action, a hundred evil ones should be forgotten.
Life can never give security, it can only promise opportunity.
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like.
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
He who takes revenge for a small insult, will have a bigger one thrown at him
Better do a kindness near home than go far to burn incense.
A person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
Rivers and mountains may change; human nature never.
If you have nothing else to offer me, offer me your smile.
Happy people never count hours as they pass.
Cheap things are not good, good things are not cheap.
To understand your parents love bear your own children.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.
Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.
He that has no silver in his purse, should have silver on his tongue.
Learning is better than house and land.
Love is incompatible with fear.
The happiness in your pocket, don't spend it all.
One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart.
Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone.
Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
It is easier to know how to do than it is to do.
Four horses cannot overtake the tongue.
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life and he fears old age.
Opinions are like nails. the more often you hit them the deeper they penetrate.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
There are two sides to every question.
If you want to know someone's character, look at the friends he keeps.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.
Easy to believe in heaven's law, but so hard to keep.
If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back.
One step in the wrong direction will cause you a thousand years of regret.
If an enemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.
Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope.
Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.
The first half of the night, think of your own faults; the second half, the faults of others.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.
A man can never be perfect in a hundred years; but he may become corrupt in less than a day.
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
The greater your troubles, the greater is your opportunity to show yourself a worthy person.
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