Chuntian Academy International

"Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up."

"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow."

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."

William Shakespeare

War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow"

"Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up."

"If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for."

"A casual attitude towards safety and defense = CASUALTY"

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."

God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. Proverbs 13.3

"Anger is One Letter from Danger"

"Patience, the essential quality of a man."

" Control your anger or it will control you "

" The angry man will defeat himself in battle, as well as life"

A bucket half full of water makes more splashing noise than a full bucket

Do not seek answers; seek to understand the questions

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – study kung fu.
If you want happiness for eternity - find God

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities

One step at a time is good walking

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep

If the problem has a solution, worrying is pointless, in the end the problem will be solved. If the problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it can't be solved.

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear

Life is the only thing worth living for.

When you get there, there is no there there

Live every day like your hair was on fire.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

The mind should be as a mirror.

There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.

Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. - The three qualities necessary for training.

If you do not get it from yourself, Where will you go for it?

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them.

Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered 'How am I supposed to know?'
'How do you not know? You're a Zen master!' exclaimed the samurai.
'Yes, but not a dead one,' Hakuin answered.

" The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war ".

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Consider the past and you shall know the future.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.

It is always easier for one man to solve another man's problem.