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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
American - Educator
May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Thomas Carlyle

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Plutarch

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

Lord Chesterfield

In China, your freedom is always limited, but this limitation applies to almost everyone. If someone does injustice to you, though, you have to find a way to avenge yourself - even by illegal measures. In a sense, injustice is more personal. This idea has always been in Chinese history. I think we read about freedom of speech, or lack of freedom of speech, in China so often. But I don't think people here in America think about how justice, or the idea of justice, is so important in a Chinese setting. It's probably more important than freedom of speech in the Chinese mindset at this moment.

Yiyun Li

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Marian Keyes

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

David Hockney

Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.

Michael Anti

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

Vivienne Westwood

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Cam'ron

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Vincent Bugliosi

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

John F. Kennedy

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Plutarch

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about Google's role in acceding to the Chinese government's demands to censor search results. Google says that it is better to have a hampered internet than no internet at all. I believe that if the Chinese people were threatened with no Google, they might even rise up and demand free speech - free search and links - from their regime. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

Jeff Jarvis

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