Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 29

With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the way of Tao is kindness
Lao Tzu
I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.
Ken Liu
Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.
Pearl Zhu
How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthle
Marie Lu
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
Lisa See
The cautious seldom err.
Confucius
What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
Francis Chan
Taking away men's weapons will be not bring peace. They'll fight with sticks and stones, and tooth and nail. Mapidéré's is a peace supported only by fear, as secure as a nest built on a rotten branch.
Ken Liu
Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!
Zhuangzi
The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
Sun Tzu
Culture is the organization’s fingerprint.
Pearl Zhu
Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
Vann Chow
Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
Marie Lu
Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.
Mao Zedong
The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.
Watchman Nee
Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.
Pearl Zhu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others,the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.
Confucius
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.
Lao Tzu
Asking big “WHY” question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.
Pearl Zhu
When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.  It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.
Sun Tzu
Decisions always refer to the future.
Pearl Zhu
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Sun Tzu
Well enough,” I reply. “Remember, you’re drunk. And happy. You’re supposed to be lusting over your escort. Try smiling a little mo
Marie Lu
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
Gao Xingjian
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
Zhuangzi
A true healer is the one who heals himself first so others can benefit from his own healing.
Hong Curley
So let us recognise our shame and guilt; let us ache with self-reflection; let us eradicate the repetition of suffering and resist anger; let us learn to concretely tend to the suffering of an individual, of our common citizens, with equality; let us learn to live life with honour and dignity and a wealth of humanity.
Xiaobo Liu
No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.
Marie Lu
Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
Pai Kit Fai
Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.
Sun Tzu
Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.
Lao Tzu
The funniest people are the saddest ones
Confucius
Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.
Liu Cixin
The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.
Pearl Zhu
Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women.
He Zhen
Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.
Meia Geddes
The library is like a candy store where everything is free.
Jamie Ford
Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger.
Lao Tzu
Culture is corporate character.
Pearl Zhu
Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.
Sherry Thomas
The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.
Pearl Zhu
Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.
Lao Tzu
Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one's original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe.
Lao Tzu
You have a brain and two hands, look up the answer yourself. You want to know how to get through life? Pay attention.
Weike Wang
I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
Marie Lu
If I breathe, what will my heart think?If I vomit, what will my soul think?
Xi Chuan
To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.
Sun Tzu
The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.
Mencius
There's a Chinese saying that the fates are winds that blow through our lives from every angle, urging us along the paths of time. Those who are strong-willed may fight the storm and possibly choose their own road, while the weak must go where they are blown. I say I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.
Jean Kwok
More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself.
Francis Chan
if you fight with all your might,  there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner
Sun Tzu
The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.
Zhuangzi
Learning is the way to keep your mind flowing, and hence your life flowing
Pearl Zhu
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Lao-Tsze
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
Sun Tzu
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius
I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.
Meia Geddes
It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...
Confucius