Chinese Proverb Quotes

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

  517 Copy quote

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heaven, Soul, Literature

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

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

  Confucius

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Patience, Perseverance, Chinese

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Jules Renard

  Men, Ducks, Long

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

  Amelia Earhart

  Home, Reality, Chinese

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Mind, Wish

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• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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• Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Inspiration, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Too many cooks spoil the broth

  Jane Austen

  Food, Haste Makes Waste, Chinese

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.2567, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Names, Naming Things

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• A bad workman blames his tools.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Tools, Blame, Entrepreneurship

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Would Be, Three

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

  Louis C. K.

  Education, Math, Men

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

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Life, Memories, Chinese

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• A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Children, Chinese

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