1. Stay calm to cultivate your character, and be frugal to cultivate your virtue.

2. The right person will get many help, but the wrong person will get little help.

3. Don’t be happy with things, and don’t be sad with yourself.

4. When wood is supported by a rope, it becomes straight; when metal is sharpened, it is beneficial.

5. It is not too late to make amends. Be true to your word, and be resolute in your deeds

6. What you see on paper will eventually make you realize it, but you will definitely know that you must do it.

7. A thousand-mile embankment collapses in an ant nest.

8. The car in front is overturned, and the car behind is stopped.

9. Those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black.

10. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.

11. Misfortunes lie on the back of blessings, and blessings lie on the backs of misfortunes.

12. I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain.

13. Don’t be afraid of clouds covering your eyes, just because you are at the top.

14. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries.

15. Only those who are down-to-earth can say: The road is at my feet.

16. A beautiful blueprint is just a page of waste paper in the hands of a lazy man.

17. Temporary setbacks can often be turned into knowledge and insights through unyielding struggle.

18. With hard work and upward development, the curved bamboo whip turned into a straight bamboo.

19. Even if the bamboo roots are buried underground and no one can see them, they will never stop exploring and strive to sprout new shoots.

20. Hope can be even more powerful only if it is accompanied by diligence.

21. There is no difference between a person obsessed with hope and a woodcutter waiting for something to happen.