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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Chinese.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Sense the life force -
what the Chinese call "Qi" -
radiating powerfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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