Chinese Proverb Quotes

#1. When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb

Rebecca Yount

#2. There is an old Chinese proverb: 'A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.

Ashwin Sanghi

#3. It's something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance. Some legends call it the red string of fate; others, the thread of destiny.

Laura Schroff

#4. When the father helps the son, both smile. When the son helps the father, both cry.

~ Chinese proverb

Simon Brooke

#5. The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Camron Wright

#6. He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Wealth Is Like Dung, Useful Only When Spread" - Chinese Proverb JIGGS

B.K. Froman

#8. If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb

Scott Lynch

#9. 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.

Bill Bradley

#10. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Marian Keyes

#11. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." Chinese proverb

Nana Awere Damoah

#12. The Chinese proverb says, when sleeping women wake, mountains move.

Sarah Bessey

#13. Chinese proverb says that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This journey had begun with the coercion of my body, with my own wild hope.

Aspen Matis

#14. When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, and others build windmills. chinese proverb

Anonymous

#15. Jade must be chiseled before it can be considered a gem -- Chinese Proverb

Lars Guignard

#16. You see, calling things by their proper names is the beginning of wisdom. That's a Chinese proverb and they invented writing. The wisdom, in case you're wondering, is that when you get names right, you narrow the gap between you and the thing.

Zia Haider Rahman

#17. That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. - Chinese Proverb

Anonymous

#18. Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune.

Will Durant

#19. How do you move a mountain? One spoonful of dirt at a time. Chinese proverb

Jen Wilkin

#20. Don't listen to what they say. Go see. - Chinese proverb

J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

#21. A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

Matthew Polly

#22. A Chinese proverb says, "Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well." Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;

John C. Maxwell

#23. If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people. CHINESE PROVERB

Andy Stanley

#24. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb

Tim Baker

#25. In the words of a Chinese proverb, "The wind always destroys the tallest tree in the forest.

Chai Ling

#26. As the Chinese proverb says, 'Those who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.

Mollie Culligan

#27. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

#28. Ancient Chinese proverb," he said, heading toward the kitchen.
"He who butt-fucks all night wakes up with sore asshole.

Brad Boney

#29. Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
- Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

#30. Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year, a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

(Chinese proverb)

Mya Larose

#31. Relationships
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
Ancient Chinese proverb

Aminta Arrington

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

David Hockney

#33. If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up where we're headed. Ancient Chinese proverb

Stacey Hall

#34. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb

Kevin E. Kruse

#35. Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself - Chinese proverb

Colleen Collins

#36. Never forget a man who holds a secret holds power. A Chinese proverb says: "If women want to keep a secret, one of them must die." What a splendid prospect, I thought! So far I have not heard one single encouraging word about this job.

John Eppler

#37. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

#38. When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#39. The Chinese have a very good proverb: The bird of sorrow has to fly, but see that it does not nest in your mind.

Angelo D. Scolozzi

#40. One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.

D.B. Patterson

#41. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Anonymous

#42. Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.

Nien Cheng

#43. There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

D.B. Patterson

#44. If you don't know where you're going, all roads lead there.

Laurence Eubank