Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 18

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.
Sun Tzu
The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
Sun Tzu
We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.
Sun Tzu
Danger has a bracing effect.
Sun Tzu
first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle;  if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured
Sun Tzu
If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.
Sun Tzu
To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.
Sun Tzu
Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.
Sun Tzu
Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
Sun Tzu
If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.
Sun Tzu
mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy
Sun Tzu
If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.
Sun Tzu
Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.
David W. Wang
If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.
Chinese Proverb
Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
Pearl Zhu
Culture is the organization’s fingerprint.
Pearl Zhu
Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.
Pearl Zhu
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity
Sun Tzu
Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
Vann Chow
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang
Enemies can also be friends.
Wendy Zhang
A child-like mind is full of imagination.
Pearl Zhu
Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)
Dai Sijie
Evil and good meet with their due reward. Good fortune and ill luck walk side by side. But he who never walks the wrong path, need have no fear when comes the summons in the night.
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Do you mind if I contribute my thoughts to this one? If you could just stop nitpicking and dissecting every little thing, if you could learn to keep one eye closed and one eye open, and quit worrying about everything, you might discover life is pretty fucking beautiful. Am I right?
Ge Fei
In my life, no three miles have been flat and no three days have had sun. I've been brave in the past, but now I'm beyond devastated. My grief is like dense clouds that cannot be dispersed. I can't think beyond the blackness of my clothes and heart.
Lisa See
Maybe his nightmare had been about me.
Marie Lu
It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.
Vann Chow
Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his legs sprawled out, pounding on a tub and singing. "You lived with her, she brought up your children and grew old," said Huizu. "It should be enough simply not to weep at her death. But pounding on a tub and singing - this is going too far, isn't it?"Zhuangzi said, "You're wrong. When she first died, do you think I didn't grieve like anyone else? But I looked back to her beginning and the time before she was born. Not only the time before she was born, but the time before she had a body. Not only the time before she had a body, but the time before she had a spirit. In the midst of the jumble of wonder and mystery a change took place and she had a spirit. Another change and she had a body. Another change and she was born. Now there's been another change and she's dead. It's just like the progression of the four seasons, spring, summer, fall, winter."Now she's going to lie down peacefully in a vast room. If I were to follow after her bawling and sobbing, it would show that I don't understand anything about fate. So I stopped.
Zhuangzi
Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.
Liu Cixin
On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree."Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
Bai Juyi
He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.
Marie Lu
There was a man whose only son died of a sudden illness. He did not mourn for his son, nor was he sad about it. His friends were curious about his behavior, so they asked him, "Your only son is dead. You should be heartbroken. Why do you act as if nothing had happened?"The man replied, "Before my son came, I had no son. I was certainly not heartbroken back then. Now I have no son. Why should I be heartbroken now?
Liezi
Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed and lost himself in drinking, sex, and gambling to try to forget this misfortune. The other person decided that this would be an excellent chance for him to study the classics and quietly observe the subtleties of nature. Both men experience the same misfortune, but one man lost himself because he was too attached to the experience of loss, while the other found himself because he was able to let go of gain and loss.
Liezi
I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.
Mu Xin
One gains by losing and loses by gaining.
Lao Tzu
After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.
Marie Lu
We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?""Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
Sherry Thomas
Li Gui called out, "Sir, if you kill me you will kill two persons.""How do you make that out?" asked Li Kui, staying the blow."At home I support my mother who is ninety years of age, and this is my only means of helping her in her old age," said Li Gui. "I never injure people, but only make them afraid. If you kill me, my old mother will die of starvation."Li Kui who never twinkled his eyes in chopping off people's heads, paused and thought when he heard this. "Here am I trying to succour my old mother, and yet killing a man who supports his old mother. Heaven will not allow me to live if I do this. No! No! I will forgive this man.(J.H. Jackson translation)
Shi Nai'an
Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?
Sherry Thomas
I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.
Brother Yun
To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.
Marie Lu
People who believed in God today will doubt him tomorrow and those who doubted him today will believe in him tomorrow because believing in someone else doesn't work. Believe in yourself.
Vann Chow
When there is fear, there is no trust.
Pearl Zhu
One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?
Marie Lu
Trusting me,” Teren murmurs, “is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta.”“I’m doing more than that,” I reply. “For the rest of this journey, you will be my personal guard.”At that, Teren’s eyes flare with surprise and anger. “I’m not your lackey, Your Majesty.”“And I’m not Giulietta,” I fire back.
Marie Lu
Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.
Marie Lu
Trust is a collective mind - the corporate culture. You can’t build and nourish trust without creating a conducive environment of trust.
Pearl Zhu
If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
Lao Tzu
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things.
Lao Tzu
He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.
Marie Lu
Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!"Said the sun to the man, "But only with the rain and the night could you recognize my light."---Domaccan poem, translated by Chevalle
Marie Lu
After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.
Marie Lu
If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself—maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.
Meia Geddes
When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself
Lao Tzu
The Way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
Adeline Yen Mah
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.
Zhuangzi