⑴ Short stories about self-improvement and self-reliance

1. Chen Ping was a famous prime minister in the Western Han Dynasty. When he was young, his family was poor and he and his brother depended on each other. In order to uphold his father's destiny and shine in the family, he did not engage in production. , studying behind closed doors, but was not tolerated by his elder sister-in-law. In order to eliminate the conflict between brother and sister-in-law, he endured repeated humiliation and kept silent. As his elder sister-in-law worsened, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and ran away from home.

He wanted to wander around the world, but after being chased back by his brother, he ignored the past grievances and prevented his brother from divorcing his sister-in-law, which became a good talk in the local area. Finally, there was an old man who came here because of his reputation and accepted apprenticeships for free. After completing his studies, he assisted Liu Bang and achieved great success.

2. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, suffered from an illness when he was young, resulting in lameness and uneven and protruding teeth. He almost thinks that he is the unluckiest child in the world, so he rarely plays games with his classmates. When the teacher asks him to answer questions, he always lowers his head and says nothing.

He overcame any shortcomings that he could overcome, and took advantage of those that he could not overcome. Through his speeches, he learned how to use a falsetto voice that concealed his notorious toothy teeth and his piling-driver posture.

Although there was nothing shocking in his speech, he was not defeated by his voice and gesture. He did not have a loud voice or a majestic posture, and he did not have astonishing rhetoric as some people. However, he was one of the most powerful orators at the time.

Because Roosevelt did not shrink back and become depressed in the face of shortcomings, but fully and comprehensively understood himself. While aware of his own shortcomings, he was able to correctly evaluate himself and fight with tenacity. Don't be discouraged by shortcomings, and even make use of them, turn them into capital, and turn them into escalators to reach the top of your reputation. In his later years, few people knew that he had serious shortcomings.

Confidence is one of the essential qualities for all people. If you want to build self-confidence, you must first build confidence in yourself. If you want to build confidence in yourself, you should sweep the street like sweeping the streets. Eliminate the sense of inferiority in the darkest and darkest corners of the world, and then plant and consolidate confidence. As confidence is built, new opportunities will follow.

3. Fan Zhongyan studied diligently. When he was a child, his family was poor. He had no food to eat and could only eat porridge. In winter, he cooked the porridge, let it freeze, and then cut it into small pieces with a knife. He only had porridge every day. He could eat a piece. When his friend found out about it, he brought him food, but he just let the food rot without touching it. He told his friend that he could not let himself learn to enjoy it, and finally made a difference.

4. Sun Jing of the Eastern Han Dynasty spent all his time studying and forgetting to eat and sleep. After studying for a long time, I was so tired that I dozed off. He was afraid that it would affect his study, so he came up with a special method. He found a rope and tied one end to the beam, and the other end of the rope held his hair. When he was tired from studying, he took a nap. When he lowered his head, his scalp hurt. He immediately woke up and continued to study.

Su Qin, a politician during the Warring States Period. When he was young, he often studied until late at night. He was very tired and often took naps until he wanted to sleep. He thought of a way, prepare an awl, and as soon as he dozed off, he would use the awl to prick his thigh. In this way, I suddenly felt pain, woke myself up, and continued reading.

Later generations combined these two stories into an idiom of "hanging beams and thorns" to encourage people to study and study vigorously.

5. When Keggins was an assistant at Ford Motor Company in the United States, he had a young employee as his secretary. One night, the company had to send a notice to all managers about something important.

The matter was very urgent, but there were not enough envelopes. At that time, all the staff present came to help paste the envelopes. Keggins asked his young secretary to help him paste envelopes. However, the young secretary thought that doing such a thing was beneath his status, so he was very dissatisfied and said: "I didn't come to the company to paste envelopes." !"

After hearing what the young secretary said, Keggins said to him calmly: "Well, since you think you can't do the envelope stuffing, you can leave here." The young secretary said angrily. Left Ford.

Then, the young secretary went to many companies and tried many jobs, but he never ended up because he was unwilling to do the most common things.

As a result, the young secretary gritted his teeth and returned to Ford. He sincerely said to Keggins: "I have experienced a lot outside. When I tell others that I don't want to make envelopes muddy here, Many people advised me that if you want to do big things, you must do small things first, and you must do small things well first. I think this is very reasonable, so I still hope to come back here. Do you want me?"

Keggins said calmly: "If you are willing to come back, of course we welcome you." The young secretary asked Keggins: "Why do you ignore the past grudges?" Keggins said: "Because. I can see that you have completely changed now. You have gone around a lot, learned to respect other people's opinions, and are no longer young and energetic. I know that you will no longer look down on the job of stuffing envelopes."

The young secretary returned to the Ford Company. He worked in every job in the company. Later, he became a very famous and wealthy businessman. In fact, if you want to succeed, don't despise the quality of your work. Even the dirtiest and most tiring work is a kind of exercise for people.

In this world, there is never a quick success. Most of the countless successful people started from the most humble jobs and the humblest things.

⑵ The stories of self-improvement and self-reliance are urgent!!!

Among the 100 most influential people in the past 1,000 years recently selected by the American "Life" magazine, Edison ranked first one.

Edison came from a humble background and lived in poverty. His "education" was that he had only attended elementary school for three months in his life. The teacher was always dumbfounded by his weird questions and even talked about him in front of his mother. He is a fool and will have no future. Although Edison did not receive a good school education, he achieved great success with his personal struggle and extraordinary talents, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-reliance. He is self-taught, and with perseverance, rare enthusiasm and energy, he stood up from thousands of failures, overcame countless difficulties, and became an American inventor and entrepreneur. He invented the automatic telegraph machine, the phonograph, and experimented with and improved electric lights (incandescent lamps) and telephones. During his lifetime, he invented a new invention every 15 days on average, and he was therefore known as the "King of Inventions."

⑶ Celebrity stories about self-reliance

1. Helen Keller.

American blind and deaf female writer and educator. He fell ill when he was young and became deaf in both ears and blind in both eyes. When she was seven years old, Anne Sullivan served as her tutor and became her mentor and helpful friend, staying with her for 50 years. With Sullivan's help, he entered college and graduated with honors.

While in college, she wrote "The Story of My Life", telling how she overcame the disability and inspired thousands of disabled and normal people. This book has been translated into 50 languages ??and circulated in countries around the world. Later, he wrote many texts and several autobiographical novels, showing that darkness and silence do not exist.

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Quotes about self-reliance and self-reliance

Real life can only be achieved after a difficult and arduous struggle. accomplish. ——Seneca

Human beings have many noble characters, but there is one noble character that is the pinnacle of human nature, which is personal self-esteem.-----Suhomlinsky

Don’t be complacent because of luck, and don’t be depressed by bad luck. A truly strong person is good at finding shadows in good times, finding light in adversity, and always calibrating his goals. ——Ibsen

Sweat your own sweat and eat your own food. Doing your own thing and relying on people, heaven and ancestors is not considered a true man.

——Tao Xingzhi

Have the courage to be your true self, stand alone, and don’t want to be someone else——Lin Yutang

Strong beliefs will win strong people, and then make them Stronger----Walter Beckyho

Reference: Internet - Self-reliance

⑷ Celebrity stories about self-reliance

1. The two sons of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, Li Zeju and Li Zekai, both graduated with honors from Stanford University in the United States. They wanted to develop their ambitions and do a career in their father's company, but Li Ka-shing decisively refused: "My company does not need you. ! It’s better for you to go out on your own and let practice prove whether you are qualified to work in our company.”

So, the two brothers went to Canada, one to engage in real estate development and the other to go to an investment bank. They overcame the problem. Despite unimaginable difficulties, he managed the company and bank to great success and became an outstanding figure in the Canadian business community. Li Ka-shing's "ruthlessness" forced the children to embark on the path of self-reliance and self-improvement, cultivating their courage, perseverance, and indomitable personality and character.

2. President Roosevelt of the United States attached great importance to cultivating children’s independent personality.

He has a famous saying: "In front of my son, I am not the president, just a father." He is opposed to children living a parasitic life relying on their parents. He left the children to fend for themselves in their own right. The eldest son James traveled to Europe when he was 20 years old. Before leaving, he bought a good horse and then sent a telegram to his father for help.

The father called back and said: "You and your horse come back from swimming!" The son had no choice but to sell the horse to pay for the trip home. After World War II started, Roosevelt's four sons all went to the front line. When their father died of illness, they all stayed on their respective warships to see their father off in this special way.

3. Nick Vujicic was born in a poor peasant family in Meixian, Guangdong in 1934. The family's life has always been very difficult. When he was a kid, he couldn't even put on shoes in the winter. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he relied on scholarships to study in middle school and college. Graduated from the Department of Biology of Sun Yat-sen University in 1961.

In 1963, he went to Thailand via Hong Kong and lived abroad for 5 years. In 1968, he returned to Hong Kong from Thailand. When he first returned to Hong Kong, he was empty-handed and in a difficult situation. In order to survive, he even took care of children.

The hardship of life gave him the idea of ??starting a business. He spent his evenings carefully studying the market conditions in Hong Kong and found that although Hong Kong's clothing industry was developed and Hong Kong people also liked to wear suits, there was no factory that produced ties. So he took out the 6,000 Hong Kong dollars he had saved from living frugally, and vacated his rented house to set up a tie production factory.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. At first, he and his wife just hand-sewed low-end ties. Although the couple worked very hard early in the morning and in the dark, business was very bad. After careful consideration, he decided to make a premium tie instead. He bought high-end ties from France and Switzerland for research and imitation, and produced a batch of high-end ties.

In order to open up sales, he was ruthless and put the first batch of products in a store and distributed them to customers for free. Because of the matching colors and styles, the products he produced were very popular. Soon, the ties he made became famous in Hong Kong. By 1970, his ties were very popular in Hong Kong. It was also in this year that he officially registered and established "Goldlion (Far East) Co., Ltd."

The next year, he bought a piece of land in Kowloon and built a tie production factory that began to take shape.

He is a man with great ambitions. The goal in his mind is to create a world-famous brand. He visited tie factories in Western Europe many times to learn their production techniques and business methods, and then combined their strengths to introduce advanced production equipment and strict management and inspection systems, so that "Goldlion" ties gradually occupied the Hong Kong market. It has become a symbol of men's solemnity, elegance and chic.

In 1974, the Great Depression occurred in Hong Kong's economy, and various commodities were sold at reduced prices, but he did the opposite.

On the one hand, he continuously improved the quality of "Goldlion" ties, and on the other hand, he raised the price appropriately and uniquely. As a result, business unexpectedly improved. When the economic recession passed, the value of "Goldlion" doubled, becoming the leading brand name tie in Hong Kong.

Not just ties, he also expanded his development plans to more men's products. He made a seemingly simple but actually profoundly creative change to the advertising slogan "Goldlion Tie, the Man's World" that has become familiar to Hong Kong people over the years, and changed it to "Goldlion, the Man's World".

Starting from T-shirts, we gradually launched a series of products such as belts, socks, suspenders, laces, waistbands, bow ties, tie clips, cuff buttons, keychains, etc. under the Goldlion brand, making both the company and the Goldlion brand famous. Towards diversification.

While developing and consolidating the Hong Kong market, he also expanded overseas markets with a positive and optimistic attitude and entered Southeast Asian countries. He personally went to Singapore to inspect, set up a branch and look for partners. After achieving success, it quickly expanded its battlefield to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand... So far, Goldlion has more than a thousand major customers in these countries.

4. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, suffered from an illness when he was young, resulting in lameness and uneven and protruding teeth. He almost thinks that he is the unluckiest child in the world, so he rarely plays games with his classmates. When the teacher asks him to answer questions, he always lowers his head and says nothing.

He will overcome any shortcomings that he can overcome, and take advantage of those that cannot be overcome. Through his speeches, he learned how to use a falsetto voice that concealed his notorious toothy teeth and his piling-driver posture.

Although there was nothing spectacular about his speech, he was not defeated by his voice and gesture. He did not have a loud voice or a majestic posture, and he did not have astonishing rhetoric as some people. However, he was one of the most powerful orators at the time.

Because Roosevelt did not shrink back and become depressed in the face of shortcomings, but fully and comprehensively understood himself. While aware of his own shortcomings, he was able to correctly evaluate himself and fight with tenacity. Don't be discouraged by shortcomings, and even make use of them, turn them into capital, and turn them into escalators to reach the top of your reputation. In his later years, few people knew that he had serious shortcomings.

5. A famous German musician and one of the representatives of the Vienna classical music school. His works have a very profound impact on the development of world music, so he is respected as the "Music Saint".

At the age of twenty-six, Beethoven's hearing gradually declined; at the age of forty-five, he became completely deaf and could only communicate with people through conversation books. However, his lonely life did not make him silent and retired. In the feudal restoration era when all progressive ideas were banned, he still adhered to the political belief of "freedom, equality, and fraternity".

Through his speeches and works, he fought for democracy and ideals, reflecting the revolutionary enthusiasm of the bourgeoisie at that time to fight against feudalism and fight for democracy and write the immortal masterpiece "Ninth Symphony".

⑸ Stories of typical characters of self-reliant people (shorter, about 100 words)

1. Sang Lan

Helen Keller (1880) June 27 - June 1, 1968) was an American blind, deaf-mute female writer and disabled educator. He lost his vision, hearing and speech abilities due to illness when he was 19 months old. However, this severely disabled person who is blind, deaf and mute has created a miracle in life. With the education and help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she was self-reliant and not only learned to read, write and speak, but also completed four years of study at Harvard University's Radcliffe College with amazing perseverance, becoming the first person in human history to A deaf-blind man who earned a B.A.

⑹ Stories of successful self-reliance by famous people (brief)

Lincoln’s Steps A little boy about 1 year old was led by his young mother to the square in the park and asked to There were more than a dozen steps up. But the little boy broke away from his mother's hand and wanted to climb up by himself. He climbed up with his fat little hands, and his mother had no intention of carrying him up. When he climbed up two As he climbed the steps, he felt that the steps were very high. He looked back at his mother. She didn't mean to reach out to help him, but her eyes were full of love and encouragement. The little boy looked up again and gave up the idea of ??letting his mother hold him. , or he climbed up carefully using his hands and feet. He climbed very hard, his little *** was lifted so high, his little face was flushed with exhaustion, his baby clothes were also stained with dirt, and his little hands were also dirty. But he finally climbed up. The young mother then stepped forward to pat the dirt on her son's body and kissed him on his red face. This little boy was Lincoln, who later became the 16th President of the United States. His mother That is Nancy Hanks. Lincoln's father was a farmer and his family was extremely poor. Lincoln received formal education intermittently, which totaled less than one year. But Lincoln developed a love of knowledge, the pursuit of learning, and kindness and integrity from an early age. And the good quality of not being afraid of hardships. He couldn't afford paper and pens, so he used charcoal to write on wooden boards and small sticks to practice calligraphy on the ground. He spent all his time reading, studying, and practicing speeches. Lincoln was unemployed and worked as a worker , worked as a lawyer. From the age of 29, he began to run for congressmen and president. He tried 11 times and failed 9 times. When he was 51 years old, he finally aspired to the White House and achieved brilliant results. He was called by Marx He is called "a hero all over the world." His mother Nancy unfortunately died of illness when Lincoln was 9 years old. But there is no doubt that she raised Lincoln with strong and great maternal love, making him brave and determined to move towards the future.

⑺ Examples of celebrity self-reliance

1. Sang Lan

Sang Lan was seriously injured while participating in the World Friendship Games in July 1998, resulting in high paraplegia. But after a brief period of sadness, Sang Lan did not remain permanently decadent, but chose to fight for a new life again.

Sang Lan treats life with a positive attitude, "All difficulties can be overcome, and there is nothing that cannot be solved." She lives an active life and works hard. In 1998, she was influenced by the United States People and Life magazines recognized him as a Hero of the Year.

The wife of U.S. Vice President Al Gore presented the "Women's Sports" magazine's "Courage" Award to her. The famous American ABC TV program "20/20" aired Sang Lan's feature film, making him the second Chinese news figure to appear in this column after ***.

On New Year’s Eve in 1999, he became the first Chinese to preside over the lighting ceremony of the Empire State Building in Times Square. In April 1999, he won the fifth "Brave Athlete Award" issued by the Nassau County Sports Commission in Long Island, New York, USA.

2. Betegg

Meissen is a small town in Germany, located at the foot of the Erzgebirge Mountains and adjacent to the Czech Republic. The ceramics here are world-famous. There is another person as famous as ceramics, his name is Betege. More than 30 years ago, Beteger was a garbageman at the Meissen Ceramics Factory.

The technician of the Meissen Ceramics Factory is an Italian named Pusey. The Meissen Ceramics Factory was entirely supported by this technician and his several apprentices. One day, the factory had a dispute with the Pusai technician because of a disagreement.

Technician Pousse returned to Italy with several of his apprentices in anger. The Meissen Ceramics Factory was forced to cease production because there was no one to take Pousse's place. The senior leaders of Meissen Ceramics Factory suddenly became a mess.

At this moment, Betege stood up and said to the factory leader: "Can you let me try?" The factory leader kept shaking his head: "You, a garbageman also want to be a technician Live?" Betege immediately brought a vase made by himself from home.

Said: "Please take a look at this. Which quality is better compared with the products of our factory?" After the factory leaders saw it, they were all stunned and asked Betege: "This vase is really good." "Did you bake it?" Betege replied affirmatively: "Yes."

It turns out that this garbage worker who has been working in the factory inconspicuously for nearly ten years actually works every day. While secretly learning the craftsmanship of the Pousse technician, Betege learned all the things that even the staff officially sent by the factory to learn from the Pousse technician could not learn.

The factory asked Betegue: "If you have any needs, just ask." Betegue said: "My current monthly salary is 20 euros. Can you increase my monthly salary to 30 euros?" Euros?"

Betege was afraid that the factory leader would not agree and quickly explained: "I still work as a garbageman, I am just a technician because my mother suffers from severe asthma. I need to take 10 euros of medication every month, and my salary is only enough for the family’s monthly living expenses.”

It turns out that Beteger was very envious of the apprentices, who could get 30 euros a month. , and I can only get 20 euros. So, in order to be on par with the apprentices and so that his mother could take medicine every month, he secretly learned the craft of making pottery.

The factory leader replied: "As long as you can replace Pusai, not only can you no longer do the job of transporting garbage, but from now on, your monthly salary will be the same as Pusai, with a monthly salary of 10,000 euros." The Meissen ceramics factory is finally up and running again.

Beteger, who was a garbageman at the time, never dreamed of receiving such a high salary. Today, Meissen has become the center of German pottery, and Betege's reputation far exceeds that of any top technician in Italy.

3. Zhang Haidi

Zhang Haidi suffered from spinal hemangioma when he was five years old and became a high paraplegic. As a result, she never went to school. She began to learn knowledge by herself with tenacious perseverance since childhood. She successively taught herself professional courses in primary school, middle school and university.

When Zhang Haidi was fifteen years old, she was sent to a poor village in Shen County, Liaocheng with her parents. However, she did not fear the hard life, but dedicated her youth with an optimistic spirit. There she taught children in the village primary school.

He also overcame various difficulties to learn medical knowledge and enthusiastically treated the villagers with acupuncture. During her stay in Shenxian County, she treated more than 10,000 people free of charge and received enthusiastic praise from people.

4. Faraday

By chance, Dance, a member of the Royal Society, came to the printing factory to proofread his works and accidentally discovered Faraday's "manuscript". He was shocked when he learned that these were notes written by an apprentice bookbinder.

So Dance gave Faraday a ticket to attend the Royal Academy. Faraday came to the Royal Academy to observe in an extremely excited mood. The person who gave the report was David, a famous British chemist who was famous at that time. Faraday's eyes widened and he listened to David's lecture very carefully.

After returning home, he compiled his lecture notes into a volume and used it as a "Chemistry Textbook" for self-study. Later, Faraday sent his carefully bound "Chemistry Textbook" to Professor Davy, and attached a letter.

Said: "I would very much like to escape from the business world and enter the scientific world, because according to my imagination, science can make people noble and approachable." After receiving the letter, David was deeply moved. He admired Faraday's talents very much and decided to recruit him as his assistant.

Faraday was very diligent and quickly mastered experimental techniques and became David's right-hand man. Half a year later, David will go to the European continent for a scientific research trip, interviewing famous scientists from various European countries, and visiting chemical laboratories in various countries.

David decided to take Faraday abroad. In this way, Faraday traveled with David in Europe for a year and a half, met with famous scientists such as Ampere, gained a lot of knowledge, and also learned French. After returning to China, Faraday began to conduct scientific research independently.

Soon, he discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. In 1834, he discovered the law of electrolysis, which shocked the scientific world.

This law is named "Faraday's law of electrolysis". Faraday relied on hard self-study and started as a bookbinding apprentice who had never even attended elementary school.

Entered the ranks of the world's first-class scientists. Engels once praised Faraday as "the greatest electrologist to date". On August 25, 1867, Faraday passed away while sitting in his study reading. He was 76 years old.

5. Helen Keller

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American blind and deaf-mute female writer and disabled person. Educators with disabilities. He lost his vision, hearing and speech abilities due to illness when he was 19 months old.

However, it was such a severely disabled person who was blind, deaf and mute who created a miracle in life. With the education and help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she became self-reliant and not only learned to read, write and speak.

And with amazing perseverance, he completed four years of study at Harvard University's Radcliffe College and became the first blind and deaf person in human history to receive a bachelor's degree in literature.