NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

College of Arts and Sciences

Language and Literature Department
Laoag City

WORLD LITERATURE

TORIBIO, JAKE BRYAN G. RATING:

BSMARE 2A 07/31/2020

CHINESE PROVERBS

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”

The Chinese proverbs says that no matter how slow or small your progress is, it’s still a progress.
If you continued on doing things for the betterment of yourself, and keeping yourself motivated
no matter how slow you grow, in time you’ll get big results to be proud of. It is better that doing
nothing at all. If you don’t do something about it, you’ll never get to where your destination is.

“The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.”
One true friend is worth than a thousand of fake ones. If you have a lot of friends but none of
them is to be trusted or someone to be with when in times of your downfall then it’s like you’re
still alone, but when you have someone, only one who treats you special and someone who’ll
always be there for you through ups and downs in life then you’re lucky, keep them.

“If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it
from those coming back.”
Our parents always say these words when they “sermon” us, “papunta ka palang, pabalik na
ako”, whenever we did something wrong or we talk back to them. Our eldest are the best teacher
when it comes to life coaching, we learn from their mistakes, to not repeat it and success for
more success. They are our inspiration, our look up to in manipulating life, we must respect them
and salute them for they have conquered a lot of consequences in life.

SOURCE OF PROVERBS:
75 inspirational Chinese proverbs. Inspirational words of wisdom.
https://www.wow4u.com/chinese/