1. Habits formed by wisdom can become second nature. ——Bacon

2. People often mix truth and error to teach others, but they insist on errors. ——Goethe

3. The idea that it will always be smooth sailing and success will be easy without going through hardships and twists and making great efforts is just a fantasy. ——Mao Zedong

4. Having a firm will is equivalent to adding a pair of wings to your feet. —— Joe Bailey

5. Wealth cannot be immoral, poverty cannot be moved, and power cannot be subdued. ——Mencius

6. People who have no faith do not know what is possible. ——Confucius

7. I threw myself on the book like a hungry man on bread. ——Gorky

8. Climbing to the top, the struggle itself is enough to enrich the human heart. People must believe that there is more to the mountain than happiness. ——Camus

9. Labor can arouse people’s creativity. ——Leo Tolstoy

10. If you have an upright heart, you will not dare to be selfish. ——Ouyang Xiu

11. Great honesty is the sharp ax of eloquence. ——Romain Rolland

12. Telling the truth is an obligation. ——Democritus

13. Idleness is a mother. She has a son: robbery, and a daughter: hunger. ——Hugo

14. The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. ——Anonymous

15. Honor and wealth, without intelligence, are very unstable assets. ——Democritus

16. Although integrity is not doing good, it is the lack of evidence of sin. ——Leo Tolstoy

17. A thousand teachings teach people to seek truth; a thousand learnings teach them to be a true person. ——Tao Xingzhi

18. In order to learn, one must be firm and persistent. If one is not firm, one will become weak; if one is not persistent, one will retreat. ——Feng Zixian

19. The most terrifying enemy is the lack of strong belief. ——Romain Rolland

20. Only perseverance can make you achieve your goal, and only erudition can make you discern the world. ——Schiller

21. If you live an upright and honest life, you will definitely have a clear conscience. ——Gorky

22. To learn, it is like digging a well. The deeper the well, the harder it is to get out. If you are not willing to go to the end, how can you see the source of the spring? ——Zhang Jiugong

23. The most important thing in life is to have an ambitious goal and use talent and perseverance to accomplish it. ——Goethe

24. Mount Tai does not allow soil, so it can become big; rivers and seas do not allow small streams, so it can become deep. ——Li Si

25. The basis of science is a healthy body. ——Marie Curie

26. People who are idle are the least free. ——Sertis

27. Learning is labor, labor full of ideas. ——Ushensky

28. Those who do not believe their words will not achieve results. ——Mozi

29. Great men have walked through the desert before ascending to the glorious world. ——Balzac

30. There is no force more powerful than knowledge, and those armed with knowledge are invincible. ——Gorky

31. I would rather stand alone and proudly stick to my beliefs than go with the flow without distinguishing right from wrong. ——Cha Churchill

32. The so-called genius is the power of hard work. ——Dwight

33. Don’t give up! Never give up! never give up! ——Churchill

34. If I insist on something, even a cannon cannot defeat me. ——Pavlov

35. A person who can think is truly a person with boundless power. ——Balzac

36. If you make a mistake, you may stand up again immediately; if you break a promise, you may never recover. ——Franklin

37. Good opportunities are of no use to laziness, but hard work can turn the most ordinary opportunities into good ones. ——Martin Luther

38. No matter how hard you work, you will get a lot. To harvest well, you must cultivate well. ——Xu Teli

39. I don’t have any special talents, but I just like to get to the bottom of things. ——Einstein

40. Struggle is the father of all things. ——Tao Xingzhi

41. Once you choose the path of life, you must bravely walk to the end and never look back. ——Zola

42. Loyalty requires complete truth. ——Chardin

43. Read thousands of books and write like a god. ——Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty

44. The road is far away, so I will search for it up and down. ——Qu Yuan

45. Knowledge is a kind of happiness, and curiosity is the bud of knowledge. ——Bacon

46. Frankness is the product of honesty and courage. ——Mark Twain

47. A sincere person will not hate others. ——Napoleon

48. When fate hands me a sour lemon, let us try to make sweet lemon juice from it. ——Hugo

49. To a person without will, everything feels difficult; to a person without a mind, everything feels simple. ——North Korea

50. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

——Franklin

51. Gentlemen in ancient times were like holding beautiful jade but hiding it from the market, while later generations used stone as jade and showed it off. ——Zhu Xi

52. Those who don’t know enough are eager to learn, and those who are ashamed to ask are complacent. ——Lin Bu

53. Based on honesty, it is extremely enjoyable. ——Goth

54. Smart people have long ears and short tongues. ——Flag

55. Those who accomplished great things in ancient times not only had extraordinary talents, but also had perseverance. ——Su Shi

56. Genius is obtained through labor. ——Tong Dizhou

57. Without honesty, there is no dignity. ——Cicero

58. You must be in contact with the actual society to make the books you read come alive. ——Lu Xun

59. Losing integrity is equivalent to the enemy destroying oneself. ——Shakespeare

60. Don’t lie, don’t be afraid of the truth. - Lev. Tolstoy

61. Diligence can keep us healthy, clear-headed, perfect inside, and rich in wallet. ——Semonds

62. Brilliant flowers bloom in lies. ——Heine

63. All the excellent qualities in me are attributed to books. ——Golky

64. Honesty is the richest inheritance. ——Kerr

65. Sincerity and simplicity are precious qualities of genius. ——Stanislavsky

66. When you can’t tell yourself what you learned today, don’t go to bed. ——Lichtenberg

67. Life is like a story. What matters is not how long it is, but how good it is. ——Seneca

68. Whoever plays games all his life will accomplish nothing; whoever cannot master himself will always be a slave. ——Goethe

69. Half the truth is often a big lie. ——Franklin

70. Will is the spiritual power of everyone, the vision of freedom to create or destroy something, and the creativity that can create miracles from nothing. ——Lermontov

71. Life is just like a marathon. Only those who persist to the end can be called the winner. ——Daisaku Ikeda

72. My husband has ambitions all over the world, and he is still close to his neighbors thousands of miles away. ——Cao Zhi

73. Telling one’s true thoughts is a great comfort in life. ——Voltaire

74. Defeat evil with good, and defeat music with straightness. ——Cai E

75. Let me tell you the secret that enables me to achieve my goal. My only strength is my persistence. ——Pasteur

76. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent diligence. ——Edison

77. Black-haired people hate studying early, while white-haired people hate studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing

78. Success does not depend on the strength, but on how long you can persist. ——Johnson

79. Even though the greatest genius lies on the green grass day and night, letting the breeze blow, and looking at the sky, gentle inspiration never visits him. ——Hegel

80. Difficulties are those that bully the weak and fear the strong. The more you fear it, the more it intimidates you. The less you take it seriously, the more respectful it will be to you.

——Xuan Yongguang