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Business is thirty percent patience.
Chinese Proverb on business

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Chinese Proverb on dreams

If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. If I'm awake, never let me sleep.
Chinese Proverb on dreams

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
Chinese Proverb on earth

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Chinese Proverb on evil

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Chinese Proverb on happiness

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

The nail that sticks out must be hammered down.
Chinese Proverb on individuality

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Chinese Proverb on intelligence

On a journey of a hundred miles, ninety is but half way.
Chinese Proverb on journey

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Chinese Proverb on journey

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Chinese Proverb on judgment

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
Chinese Proverb on law

Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one.
Chinese Proverb on law

Climb mountains to see lowlands.
Chinese Proverb on progress

The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.
Chinese Proverb on speech

Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves.
Chinese Proverb on temptation

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years
Chinese Proverb on vision

The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.
Chinese Proverb on wisdom

Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.
I Ching on adversity