Selection of ancient inspirational quotes

Inspirational ancient sayings are the spiritual and wisdom of the sages. They inspire people and make them strive for progress. Let’s take a look. Below is a collection of ancient inspirational quotes that I have compiled for your reference!

1. Do not act as you please, and do not speak as you wish.

2. Whether something is allowed or not should be decided by reason. It makes you angry, but bad things happen.

3. Places of wealth and sex should be avoided, as if you are close, there will be pollution.

4. To be a good person today, you need to stand on a wall.

5. When you hear someone’s slander, you should educate yourself, and when you hear someone’s praise, you should be afraid of yourself.

6. If you don’t fly, you will soar into the sky; if you don’t sing, you will become famous in one fell swoop. ——Sima Qian

7. There is no intention to stay or go, just watch the flowers blooming and falling in front of the court; not surprised by the favor or disgrace, just follow the clouds rolling in the sky. ——"Notes from a Quiet Window"

8. Without indifference, there is no clear ambition, and without tranquility, there is no far-reaching goal. ——Zhuge Liang

9. There will be times when the wind blows and the waves break, so you can hang your sails and sail across the sea. ——Li Bai

10. Using copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; using ancient times as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs; using people as a mirror, you can understand gains and losses. ——"Old Book of Tang·Biography of Wei Zheng"

11. If you are poor, you will be good for yourself; if you are rich, you will be good for the world. ——"Mencius"

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

13. Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go. Isn't it important to be benevolent when one considers one's own responsibilities? Isn't it too far to be done after death? - "The Analects of Confucius"

14. The most important thing is to establish virtue, then to perform meritorious service, and then to establish words, even if it lasts for a long time, it will not be abolished , this is called immortality. ——"Zuo Zhuan"

15. A calm lake cannot produce capable sailors; a comfortable environment cannot produce great men of the era. ——Lebedev

Classic ancient inspirational sayings

1. Living with bad neighbors and sitting in harm's way with friends is a way to exercise caution, which is also a resource for advancing virtue.

2. When you do good deeds, if you think of them as retribution, your chest will be full of burdens and your mouth will be full of faults.

3. When you are angry, you are easily irritable, and your righteous indignation should be restrained; when you are happy, you are easy to be crazy, and you must be careful even if you speak even the smallest words.

4. Don’t abandon people’s great beauty with small evils, and don’t forget people’s great kindness with small grudges.

5. If you blame someone too directly and make people feel ashamed, it is just a fault for me.

6. When advising others, you should not point out their faults, but first praise their strengths. When a person is happy, words are easy to enter, but when a person is angry, words are difficult to enter. Anger is better than personal reasons.

7. Don’t treat others lightly with a word, promise others lightly with a word, and disrespect others with a smile.

8. Proper etiquette, justice and integrity can be used to discipline oneself, but not to punish others. Disciplining oneself will lead to few mistakes, and dragging others will lead to harmonious relations. Being oligarchy is not the way to deal with the world. Therefore, a gentleman blames himself, and a villain blames others. Those who have more than enough virtue but lack of it are humble; those who have more than enough wealth but lack of it are despicable.

9. If you hear good words, you will worship, if you report mistakes, you will be happy, and you will have the air of a sage. Sitting in a secret room is like a thoroughfare, and controlling an inch of mind is like a six-horse horse, so you can avoid it. If the mind is not clear, it is impossible to see the way; if the ambition is not clear, it is impossible to achieve success.

10. Being harmonious to others, being tolerant to others, and being forgiving to others is what a gentleman is.

11. If you treat your family with the same love for your wife, you will never be unfilial. If you serve the king with the intention of protecting wealth and honor, you will be unfaithful in every possible way. If you blame yourself with the same intention of blaming others, you will make few mistakes. If you forgive others with the same heart that you forgive yourself, then you will be friends with everyone.

12. Light wealth is enough to gather people, self-discipline is enough to convince others, broad-mindedness is enough to win people, and being proactive is enough to lead people.

13. Rebellious officials and traitors are all raised from the word "arrogance".

14. Only by rectifying oneself can one transform others, only by doing one's best can one serve others.

15. Don’t say that you are not good, the good of a good person is good. Don't say that there is no evil in yourself. Talking about the evil in others is evil.

Recommended ancient inspirational quotes

1. What is lost is gained in the east. ——"Book of the Later Han Dynasty"

2. If there is no blockage and no flow, it will not work. ——Han Yu

3. If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be sad. ——"Han Yuefu·Long Song Xing"

4. Genius without education is like silver buried in ore. ——Franklin

5. Sacrificing one’s life in a national disaster, treating one’s death as if one were returning home. ——Cao Zhi's "White Horse"

6. If the age is not cold, there is no way to know the pines and cypresses; if things are not difficult, there is no way to know the gentleman. ——Xunzi

7. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither. ——Confucius

8. A sage will surely make a mistake when he worries a lot; a fool will worry a lot. There must be something. ——"Yan Zi Chun Qiu"

9. Dissatisfaction is an upward wheel that can carry dissatisfied mankind forward towards humanity. ——Lu Xun

10. In late spring in March, grass grows in the south of the Yangtze River, there are mixed peanut trees, and flocks of orioles fly around. ——Qiu Chi

11. Stones from other mountains can attack jade. ——"The Book of Songs·Xiaoya"

12. If you don't sing, it will be a blockbuster.

——"Historical Records·Funny Biographies"

13. Eat sparingly, drink water, bend your arms and rest your head on it, and enjoy it. Being rich and noble without justice is like a floating cloud to me. ——"The Analects of Confucius"

14. A hero is one who has great ambitions, has good strategies in his belly, has the opportunity to contain the universe, and can swallow the aspirations of heaven and earth. ——"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"

15. When you are old and strong, you would rather move your heart with a white head; when you are poor and strong, you will not fall into the clouds. ——Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty

16. Those who enjoy the happiness of the people will also enjoy the happiness of the people; those who care about the worries of the people will also worry about the people. ——"Mencius, King Hui of Liang"

17. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. ——Liu Bei

18. Learning but not knowing is the same as not learning; knowing but not being able to do it is the same as not knowing. ——Huang Jing

19. Treat the home as the home, the township as the township, the country as the country, and the world as the world. ——"Guanzi·Herdsman"

20. Those who are not strong in ambition are not wise, and those who do not believe in their words will not achieve results.

——Mo Zhai

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