Browsing Topic Best Chinese Proverb Quotes

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don’t even know that they’re leaders.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Teachers open the door … you enter by yourself.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Don’t count your chickens before they egg.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

There’s a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man’s art.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind – No pain, no gain.

A bad workman blames his tools.

I’ve always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. – Old Chinese Proverb