Wise Chinese Quotes

• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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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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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  40 Copy quote

• 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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• 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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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Ducks, Long

  8 Copy quote

• 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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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

  161 Copy quote

• Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

  Confucius

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  51 Copy quote

• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  216 Copy quote

• He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Would Be, Three

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• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Friend, Good Friend

  143 Copy quote

• Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

  Confucius

  Time, Reflection, Waste

  51 Copy quote

• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Thank You, Kindness

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• The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Names, Naming Things

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Patience, Perseverance, Chinese

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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