Famous aphorisms for character cultivation

1. It is not good to humble oneself but respect others, and it is also not good to respect oneself but humble others. ——Xu Teli

2. People who are only beautiful but lack self-cultivation are not worthy of praise. ——Bacon

3. If you want to love your own value, you have to create value for the world. ——Goethe

4. Always seek to benefit others, not yourself. ——Xie Juezai

5. It is not a matter of disrespect for position, but a lack of respect for virtue; it is not a matter of shame that one is not a good partner, but it is a matter of not being knowledgeable. ——Zhang Heng

6. What a liar gets is that no one believes him even if he tells the truth. ——Aesop

7. Improve your body and maintain a reasonable and regular life. This is the material basis for self-cultivation. ——Zhou Enlai

8. Politeness is the golden key to human happiness. ——Matsusuneji

9. Delaying your future because of broken love is a lifetime loss. ——Huo Hai

10. If everyone loves public affairs, the world will be peaceful; if everyone is selfish, the world will be in chaos. ——Liu E

11. The saddest thing for a person is the death of conscience. ——Guo Moruo

12. Having no ideals and being indecisive is a sad mentality. ——Bacon

13. Obviously, pride and humility are exactly opposites, but they have the same object. This object is the self. ——Hume

14. People dominate habits, not habits dominate people. ——Ostrovsky

15. Cultivate your life and have nothing to do except being honest. ——Zhu Zhiyu

16. I hope that every time I recall it, I won’t feel guilty about life. ——Guo Xiaochuan

17. Forget the past like smoke, and the selfless world in your heart is broad. ——Tao Zhu

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

19. Habit becomes a magician. It is cruel to beautiful things, but kind to ugly things. ——Weida

20. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. Only those who are virtuous and virtuous can obey others.

——Liu Bei