Quotes by Chinese Authors

I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.
Yao Ming
There's a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you're getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what's going to happen next.
Jessica Pan
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.
I.M. Pei
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.
I.M. Pei
Let's do it right. This is for the ages.
I.M. Pei
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.
I.M. Pei
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Lin Yutang
It is wealth to be content.
Lao Tzu
Having given all he had He then is very rich indeed.
Lao Tzu
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.
Mao Tse-Tung
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
If you don't want anyone to know it don't do it.
Chinese Proverb
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
Lao Tzu
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Chinese Proverb
We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous he is free from anxiety being wise he is free from perplexity being brave he is free from fear.
Confucius
To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
Confucius
He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.
Chinese Proverb
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
Ding Ling
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius
The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.
Confucius
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.
Chinese Proverb
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.
Lin Yutang
Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
Chuang-tzu
He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
Chinese saying
If Heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
Chinese Proverb
Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.
Ji Kang
Equal opportunity is good but special privilege even better.
Anna Chennault
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
Confucius
To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.
Confucius
I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.
Anonymous Chinese woman
No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.
Soong Mei-ling
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.
Watchman Nee
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb
He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Lao Tzu
If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.
Chinese Proverb
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.
Mao Tse-Tung
When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Misfortunes come to all men.
Chinese Proverb