The famous aphorisms in ancient poems that are both profound in philosophy and rich in the beauty of diction and sound provide people with strong spiritual enjoyment that can still be heard in their ears. Below is a collection of inspirational ancient Chinese quotes that I have selected for you. I hope you like them.

Collection of inspirational quotes from ancient Chinese:

1. Victory can be won thousands of miles away by strategizing. (Historical Records of the Great Ancestor)

2. Loyal advice is unpleasant to the ear and beneficial to action; good medicine is bitter to the mouth and beneficial to the disease. (Historical Records of the Liuhou Family)

3. Death is inevitable for everyone, and it may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. (Historical Records Reported to Ren Shaoqing)

4. A wise man will lose something if he thinks a lot; a fool will gain something if he thinks a lot. (Historical Records of Huaiyin Hou Biography)

5. The rope saw the wood to pieces, and the water dripped through the stone. (Hanshu Meisheng Biography)

6. If you want others to not know, you have to do nothing except yourself. (Meicheng of the Han Dynasty wrote a letter to admonish the King of Wu)

7. If a young man does not work hard, an old man will be miserable. (Han Dynasty Yuefu Changge Xing)

8. The strong wind knows the strength of the grass, and it will wither after seeing the cold weather. (The Biography of Wang Ba in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty)

9. What is lost is the east corner, and what is gained is the mulberry tree. (Feng Yi Zhuan, Book of the Later Han Dynasty)

10. Wherever sincerity comes, gold and stone will open. (Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Guangling Si Wang Jing Zhuan)

11. The knowledge of poverty and lowliness should not be forgotten, and the wife of chaff should not go to court. (Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Song Hongzhuan)

12. A man with lofty ideals will not drink water from a stolen spring, and an honest man will not be fed by a robber. (Book of the Later Han Dynasty)

13. The old man is always ambitious, but the martyr is ambitious in his old age. (Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms lived a long life)

14. The mountains never get too high and the sea never gets too deep; the Duke of Zhou feeds and the world returns to its heart. (Three Kingdoms Cao Cao's Short Songs)

15. Without learning, you cannot expand your talents, and without ambition, you cannot achieve learning. (Book of Admonitions by Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms)

16. Without indifference, there is no clear ambition, and without tranquility, there is no far-reaching goal. (Book of Commandments by Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms)

17. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. (Liu Bei of the Three Kingdoms)

18. Hibiscus comes out of clear water, and the carvings are naturally removed. (Li Bai on Poetry in the Tang Dynasty)

19. The great roc rose with the wind in one day and soared ninety thousand miles. (Li Bai and Li Yong of the Tang Dynasty)

20. We all have a desire to fly, and want to go up to the blue sky to embrace the bright moon. (Shu Yun, Secretary of Xie Jie Farewell School in Xuanzhou, Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty) Excerpts of inspirational quotes from ancient Chinese prose:

1. Those who know me say that I am worried; those who do not know me say that I am worried. (The Book of Songs by Wang Fengmiuli)

2. If a person has no manners, what will he do if he does not die? (The Book of Songs is associated with wind and rat)

3. Those who speak are not guilty, but those who hear are warned. (Preface to the Book of Songs)

4. Stones from other mountains can attack jade. (The Book of Songs Xiaoya Crane Ming)

5. Give me a peach and repay me with a plum. (The Book of Songs is elegantly suppressed)

6. If God does evil, you can still violate it. If you do evil yourself, you will not live. (Shang Shu)

7. If you are full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit. (Shang Shu Dayu Mo)

8. Doing good is like ascending, doing evil is like falling. (Mandarin)

9. Those who do many injustices will surely die. (Zuo Zhuan)

10. Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and be prepared for danger. (Zuo Zhuan)

11. People are not sages, how can they have no faults? But if you can correct your faults, there is no greater good. (Zuo Zhuan)

12. He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise. (Lao Tzu)

13. Believing words are not beautiful, and beautiful words are not believing. (Lao Tzu)

14. Misfortunes lie on the back of blessings, and blessings lie on the backs of misfortunes. (Laozi)

15. The tree that hugs each other is born from the smallest grain; the nine-story platform starts from tired soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Lao Tzu) Selected inspirational quotes from ancient Chinese:

1. If a young man does not work hard, he will become a sad old man. ?"Long Song Xing"

　2. The road is long and the path of cultivation is far away, I will search up and down. ?Qu Yuan

3. What is lost is the east corner, and what is gained is the mulberry tree. ?"Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Feng Yi Zhuan"

4. The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.

5. There is a road to the mountain of books, and hard work is the path to the mountain of books. There is no limit to the sea of ??learning, and hard work is the boat.

6. The work is accomplished by hard work but neglected by play; the success is achieved by thinking but destroyed by casualness.

7. There are three aspects of reading, namely, understanding with the heart, understanding with the eyes, and understanding with the mouth. ?Zhu Xi

8. I will never tire of reading old books a hundred times. If I read them carefully, I will know myself. ?Su Shi

9. Ask the canal how clear it is, because there is a source of living water. ?Zhu Xi

10. The lights are on at three and the chickens are on at five, which is when men are studying. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ?Yan Zhenqing

11. Don’t wait any longer. The young man’s head will turn gray, and it will be empty and sad.

?Yue Fei

12. Without indifference, there is no clear ambition, and without tranquility, there is no far-reaching goal. ?Zhuge Liang

13. Tomorrow comes tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows, I live waiting for tomorrow, everything will be in vain. If the world is tired of tomorrow, spring will pass and autumn will come, and old age will come. In the morning, you can see the water flowing eastward, and in the evening, you can see the sun setting in the west. How many tomorrows can there be in a hundred years? Please listen to my song of tomorrow. ?Wenjia's "Song for Tomorrow"

14. Don't do evil because it's small, and don't do good because it's small. ?Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms"

15. A bookworm must be good at writing, and an art lover must have good skills.

?Pu Songling