Chinese Proverb Quotes

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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese Proverb

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.
- Chinese Proverb

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish very gently. sometimes attributed to Confucius.
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.
- Chinese Proverb

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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.
- Chinese Proverb

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

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb

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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverb

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To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
- Chinese Proverb

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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
- Chinese Proverb

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Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
- Chinese Proverb

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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still.

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The journey is the reward.
- Chinese Proverb

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One step at a time is good walking.
- Chinese Proverb

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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
- Chinese Proverb

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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
- Chinese Proverb

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
- Chinese proverb

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

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Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
- Chinese Proverb

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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Chinese Proverb

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Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
- Chinese Proverb

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Tiger father begets tiger son.
- Chinese Proverb

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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
- Chinese Proverb

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A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
- Chinese Proverb

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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.
- Chinese Proverb

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Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
- Chinese Proverb

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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
- Chinese Proverb

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To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.
- Chinese Proverbs

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
- Chinese Proverb

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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.
- Chinese Proverb

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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb

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If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
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Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.
- Chinese Proverb

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Never write a letter while you are angry.
- Chinese Proverb

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