Inspirational quotes from ancient poems and short English verses

1. When the rivers reach the sea from the east to the sea, when will they return to the west? If a young man does not work hard, an old man will be sad. (Han Yuefu "Long Song Xing")

2. To learn a hundred things, one must first be determined. (Zhu Xi)

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

4. The pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes the weeping ghosts and gods. (Du Fu)

5. If you don’t care about your style, I will turn to Yiduo to be your master. (Du Fu)

6. Be broad-minded and appreciative, accumulate thickly but thinly. (Su Shi)

7. Be knowledgeable, interrogate, think carefully, discern clearly, and practice diligently. ("Book of Rites")

8. If you don't climb a high mountain, you don't know how high the sky is; if you don't go to a deep stream, you don't know how thick the earth is. ("Xunzi")

9. If you don't fly, you will reach the sky; if you don't sing, you will become a blockbuster. (Sima Qian)

10. If you don’t worry about others, you don’t know yourself; when you worry, you don’t know others. (Confucius)

11. If you don’t enter the tiger’s den, how can you catch the tiger’s cubs? (Book of the Later Han Dynasty)

12. If there is no obstruction, no flow, it will not work. (Han Yu)

13. I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain. (Su Shi)

14. Don’t be afraid of clouds covering your eyes, because you are at the highest level. (Wang Anshi)

15. Without rules, it is impossible to build a square garden.

(Mencius)

16. After gathering the honey from hundreds of flowers,