Chinese Proverb

• A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
• A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
• A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all.
• A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
• A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
• A little impatience will spoil great plans.
• A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.
• A needle is not sharp at both ends.
• A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd.
• An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.
• Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
• Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
• Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
• Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
• Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.
• Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore.
• Don't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still.
• Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
• 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.
• I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
• It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.
• Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily.
• Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.
• No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.
• One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.
• Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.
• Ripe fruit falls by itself - but it doesn't fall in your mouth.
• Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
• Talk does not cook rice.
• Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
• The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.
• The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss.
• The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
• There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.
• To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.