Chinese Proverb Quotes - Page 2

• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

  Alvin Toffler

  Education, Learning, Chinese

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Don't count your chickens before they egg.

  Ross O'Donovan

  Eggs, Fables, Chickens

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• If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

  Seth Godin

  Best Effort, Worth Waiting For, Wells

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• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Literature, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Cam'ron

  Fighting, Chinese, Battle

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• Possess the "Nobel Factor": Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change; but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Hair, Optimism, Worry

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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

  David Hockney

  Art, Men, Chinese

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• 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

  Love, Hate, Long

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

  Marian Keyes

  Pain, Spring, Chinese

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities”, p.72, Zondervan

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• We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.

  Alan Macfarlane

  Eye, Science, Civilization

  Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2011). “The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World”, p.4, Profile Books

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