Quotes by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

“We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.”

“Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.”

“I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.”

“Dont be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.”

“There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.”

“Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.”

“My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.”

“We write our own destiny; we become what we do.”

“We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.”

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past.