The eight famous sayings of Zeng Guofan’s family motto and the meaning of the eight famous sayings are:

1. Get up at dawn, don’t be clingy after waking up.

It means: get up early, get up as soon as it gets dark, and don’t stay in bed after waking up. This is extremely necessary for people who procrastinate or are lazy.

2. I will be left alone for a long time, and I will study again after returning from a hundred battles.

Meaning: I warn my brothers not to forget to keep a calm mind, study, and cultivate their moral character during the war-torn years.

3. Do not love the past, do not love the present, and do not welcome the future.

Meaning: No matter how beautiful a thing is, once there is no result, don’t dwell on it. You will get tired after a long time; no matter how beautiful a thing is, if you can’t keep it, you have to pick it up at the right time. Let it go, it will break your heart over time. Sometimes, giving up is another kind of persistence. If you miss the gorgeous summer flowers, you will definitely walk into the quiet autumn leaves.

4. If you deal with suspicious people, things will not work out. If you do things with beneficial people, you will suffer.

It means: No matter how simple things are, interacting with suspicious people will become complicated; no matter how bright the prospects are, cooperating with people who are greedy for profit will eventually break up.

5. Light wealth is enough to gather people, self-indulgence is enough to convince others, magnanimity is enough to win people, and being proactive is enough to lead people.

It means: Share the benefits with others, and if they are grateful, they will not betray you, so it is said that "light wealth is enough to gather people." If you are very strict with yourself, you will make others respect you and they will naturally obey you. If you want to acquire talents and make good use of them, you must first be tolerant of others. Only by taking the lead in everything can you lead others.

6. Only the most sincerity in the world can defeat the most false in the world; only the most clumsy in the world can defeat the most skillful in the world.

It means: Only the most honest person in the world can defeat the most hypocritical person in the world, and only the clumsiest person in the world can defeat the smartest person in the world. Therefore, if you use your intelligence, work diligently, and have a sincere patriotism, you will definitely make a difference in the end.

7. A diligent family will be prosperous, a diligent person will be thrifty, and he will never be poor.

It means: learn to live diligently and frugally, not to be proud when you are rich, not to be discouraged when you are poor, and manage your life with frugality.

8. Those who are too impatient will not have a sense of perseverance, those who are too fearful will not have outstanding views, those who are too lustful will not have generosity, those who talk too much will not have a sincere heart, and those who are too brave will not have a sincere heart. Literary elegance.

It means: Those who are too impatient will not have the sense of perseverance; those who are too fearful will not have the ability to leap ahead; those who are too lustful will not have the sense of generosity; those who talk too much will have no real heart and will have an impatient personality. People who are afraid of things must not have mature and stable insights, people who are afraid of this or that may not have outstanding foresight, people who have too many desires must not be generous and generous, and people who like to talk must lack the spirit of seeking truth from facts.