Chinese Quotes

• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Ambition, White

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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• I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

  Paul Simon

  Mother, Children, Eggs

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• Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

  Confucius

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wise, Inevitable, Comprehending

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.243, Open Road Media

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Thank You, Kindness

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• Have no friends not equal to yourself.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Positive, Patience

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

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• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.148

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• The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible.

  Zhuangzi

  World

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

  Louis C. K.

  Education, Math, Men

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Women, Heart

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• The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

  William C. Kirby

  Successful, Government, Political

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Survivor, Relentless

  1972 China, Past and Present, ch.1.

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Mean, Exercise

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

  Martin Yan

  Division, Hong Kong, Problem

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• My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

  Mira Sorvino

  College, Study, Majors

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• Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

  Joan Rivers

  Telephones, Chins

  "Nicole Arbour Controversy" by James Fell, www.mirror.co.uk.

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• Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

  Confucius

  Learning, Programming, Computer Language

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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