Chinese Quotes

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

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- 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

Sense the life force -
what the Chinese call "Qi" -
radiating powerfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

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

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- 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

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

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

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

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- 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

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

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.

Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz

To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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