Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 3

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
Chinese Proverb
The way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese Proverb
Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.
Chinese Proverb
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
This one makes a net this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?
Chinese rhyme
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Chinese Proverb
With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Proverb
He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius
The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.
Mencius
The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.
Chinese saying
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Lao Tzu
Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.
Lao Tzu
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming
Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.
Chinese Proverb
Always take an emergency leisurely.
Chinese Proverb
The cautious seldom err.
Confucius
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Mencius
Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.
Chinese saying
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
Huang Po
Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.
I-Ching
Be not afraid of growing slowly be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
Lin Yutang
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
Better be too credulous than too skeptical
Chinese Proverb
A man's fortune must first be changed from within.
Chinese Proverb
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
Confucius
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
Confucius
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Lao-Tsze
A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
Chinese Proverb
Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.
Chinese Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
Blessings never come in pairs misfortunes never come alone.
Chinese Proverb
The song of the brush.
Chinese saying
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
Tao Ho
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.
Lao Tzu
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Bette Bao Lord
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao Tzu
The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.
Confucius
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao Tzu
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
Confucius
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang-tzu
Misfortune comes to all men.
Chinese Proverb