食之無味，棄之可惜 Unappetising and yet not bad enough to be thrown away/Be hardly worth eating but not bad enough to throw away 食べるにはまずいし，棄(す)てるには惜(お)しい
車到山前必有路 The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there/ things will eventually sort themselves out/ As you walk there will be a way
君子之交淡若水 Friends agree best at a distance
一山不容二虎 If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind/Two tigers cannot live on the same mountain./ One mountain only can exist one tiger/ A mountain cannot accommodate two tigers
腳踏實地 keep/have both feet on the ground
忍辱負重 Swallow humiliation and bear a heavy load/swallow humiliation in order to carry out an important task
以己度人 measure others after oneself /measure other people’s corn by one’s own bushel
矢誌不渝 persist in the ambition
錦上添花 icing on the cake
知行合一 Practice what you preach/Walk the talk
可遇不可求 Something can’t ask for can only be found by accident
城府 deep, subtlety, shrewdness
不破不立 There’s no making without breaking. No destruction, no inception.
Meandering leads to perfection 