"Humility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind" is a famous saying by Chairman Mao Zedong.

Source: "Shang Shu. Dayu Mo": Fullness brings losses, modesty benefits. It means: Pride and complacency will lead to losses, while humility and prudence will gain benefits. Later, Chairman Mao used the past to apply to the present in his article and included this famous saying in "Quotations from Chairman Mao", which became "Modility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind."

"Quotations from Chairman Mao" are excerpts of Mao Zedong's remarks from his works. Because the most popular version was packaged in a red cover and contained the classic remarks of red leaders, it was commonly called the "Little Red Book" by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.

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Being modest and prudent, not arrogant or impetuous, are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and the fine style of the Communist Party of China. Chairman Mao's "Modility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind" is to urge all party members to maintain the traditional virtues and fine style of being modest, prudent, neither arrogant nor impetuous, and urges all party members and cadres;

especially leading cadres , we must combine the new historical reality, continue to adhere to the style of modesty, prudence, and neither arrogance nor impetuosity, and further maintain and promote it. Even if we have achieved great results in our work, there is no reason to be proud or arrogant. Humility makes people progress, and pride makes people fall behind. We should always remember this truth."

A horse can take risks, A field is not as strong as an ox; a strong cart is not as strong as a boat when crossing a river. Each person has his own strengths and weaknesses. Only in this way can we achieve great progress and continuous improvement.

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