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Chinese Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Chinese Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

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

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

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill

Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis

"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]

Life is a moderately good play
with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912

I have never written a book that didn't teach me
far more than it taught any reader.
- Isaac Asimov

It is a fact often observed,
that men have written good verses
under the inspiration of passion,
who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

Words are also actions,
and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher

And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)

Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.

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

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie