Chinese Proverb Quotes - Ancient Folk Wisdom

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.

Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore.

To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.

A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth.

Ripe fruit falls by itself - but it doesn't fall in your mouth.

Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.

A needle is not sharp at both ends.

The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.

An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.

A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.

The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss.

Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Talk does not cook rice.

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.