Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind. This is a famous saying of Mao Zedong, which means that you can know your own shortcomings with an open mind and try to improve, while pride will make people become complacent, and then you will fall behind.

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Source: full of losses, modest benefits. The meaning of Shangshu Dayu Mo is that complacency leads to losses and modesty benefits. Later, Chairman Mao made the past serve the present in his article, that is, "Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind".

Example:

1. Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind. "All truly great things are simple and humble.

2. "Modesty makes people progress, and pride makes people fall behind." This sentence is easy to understand, but it is quite difficult to implement.

Modesty makes people progress, pride makes people lag behind, and people can make progress only if they are modest and not proud, from learning to making contributions to society. We must have a modest heart in order to make continuous progress.

References:

Modesty-Baidu Encyclopedia