1. Hope is attached to existence. When there is existence, there is hope, and when there is hope, there is light. ——Lu Xun

2. Life is fighting. ——Korolenko

3. We are the masters of the country and should always think about the country. ——Lei Feng

4. The road is made by feet, and history is written by people. Every step a person takes is writing his or her own history. ——Ji Hongchang

5. Fatalism is an excuse for those weak who lack willpower. ——Romain Rolland

6. A person’s life may burn or decay. I cannot decay, I am willing to burn! ——Ostrovsky

7. All self-interested lives are irrational and animal lives. ——Leo Tolstoy

8. The only shortcoming we will not correct is weakness. ——La Rochefoucauld

9. Selfishness is an obstacle to achieving success. ——Lv Kun

10. Life is empty and dull only in the eyes of dull people. ——Chernyshevsky

11. Selflessness is a rare morality, because there is no profit from it. ——Brecht

12. The value of a person should depend on what he contributes, not what he obtains.

——Einstein