Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.

More Chinese Proverbs

• He who thinks too much about every step he takes will always stay on one leg.
• Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
• To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.
• It’s better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely.
• Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.
• Ripe fruit falls by itself – but it doesn’t fall in your mouth.
• A person of high principles is one who can watch an entire chess game without making a comment.
• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
• Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
• A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
• I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
• A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
• A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd.
• Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
• A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all.
• Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
• If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.
• A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood
• To know another is not to know the person’s face, but to know the person’s heart.
• A little impatience will spoil great plans.
• A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
• If you want to avoid being cheated, ask for prices at three different stores.
• Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.
• It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.
• Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.
• There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.