Chinese Quotes - Page 3

• Have no friends not equal to yourself.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Positive, Patience

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Confucius, Mencius, 左丘明 (1971). “The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes”

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Too many cooks spoil the broth

  Jane Austen

  Food, Haste Makes Waste, Contradicting

  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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• A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.

  Ruth Reichl

  Years, Knives, Kitchen

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• I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

  Jung Chang

  Book, Taiwan, Gone

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Education, Learning, Students

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• Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

  Confucius

  Appreciate, Taste, Drink

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• What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

  Confucius

  Wish

  Confucius (1996). “Le Lun Yü en français”

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• In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

  Sijie Dai

  Book, Stories, Beloved

  Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.59, Random House

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• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  Amelia Earhart

  Home, Reality, Deeds

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• It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, Animal, White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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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, Life Is Like

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Black

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• The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

  Bob Parsons

  Temptation, Succeed, Quitting

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• These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Mean, People, Meals

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

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Patience, Perseverance, Perseverence

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

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