Chapter 1: Famous sayings to express gratitude to parents

1. If you don’t have relatives, you can’t be a person; if you don’t follow relatives, you can’t be a son. ——Mencius

2. Father and son have kinship, monarch and ministers have righteousness, husband and wife have differences, elders and children have relationships, and friends have trust. ——Mencius

3. Only being filial to your parents can relieve worries. ——Mencius

4. Old people, I am old, and people are old; young people, I am young, and people are young. The world can be transported in the palm of your hand. ——Mencius

5. A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. Having both parents and brothers without any reason is one joy; looking up to Heaven and not being ashamed of others is two joys; being able to educate the talented people from all over the world is three joys. A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. ——Mencius

6. Love what your parents love, and respect what your parents respect. ——Confucius

7. It is important to know the age of your parents. One is for joy, the other is for fear. ——"The Analects of Confucius"

8. The good and the bad cannot be separated. If fate cannot be changed, if good and evil cannot be moved. ——"Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals"

9. There are five so-called unfilial persons in the world. Four of them are laziness and disregarding the support of parents. The third kind of unfilial piety is to have money and wealth, to have a private wife, and to ignore the support of parents. The fourth kind of unfilial piety is to kill one's parents based on the desires of one's ears and eyes. ——Mencius

10. When serving your elders, your voice is easy to be solemn. Do not shout loudly for trivial matters. ——Zhou Bingqing

11. There is nothing that can replace a mother. ——Ba Jin

12. All parents love their children. ——Chen Hongmou

13. The elders stand, the young do not sit. The elders sit, it is their destiny to sit. In front of elders, one should keep one's voice low, but it is not appropriate to not listen. If you advance, you must move forward, but if you retreat, you must be late. When asked, don’t look away. ——Li Yuxiu

Chapter 2: Gratitude to Parents

The most important thing for a filial son is to respect his relatives; the most important thing to respect his relatives is to support him in the world. ——Mencius

I feel sorry for my parents, who worked so hard to give birth to me. ——"The Book of Songs"

Once a teacher, always a father.

Whoever speaks an inch of grass will be rewarded with three spring brilliance.

A drop of kindness should be repaid by a spring.

Being a human being is like a candle, it has some heat and some light, giving people light and warmth. ——Xiao Chunu

Life needs a grateful heart to create, and a grateful heart needs life to nourish. ——Wang Fu

Don’t forget the person who dug the well when you are drinking water. The people in the past planted trees for the people in the future to enjoy the shade.

There is no greater kindness than knowing how to repay kindness.

Sheep have the kindness of kneeling down to breastfeed, and crows have the kindness of feeding back.

Chapter 3: Famous aphorisms about gratitude

1. Being a human being is like a candle. It has some heat and some light, giving people light. Give warmth. ——Xiao Chunu

2. Only when you raise a son can you know how hard your mother is, and when you raise a daughter, you can know how grateful you are to your mother. ——Japanese proverb

3. To know the kindness of parents, hold children and grandchildren in your arms. ——Japanese proverb

　4. Ingratitude is worse than lying, vanity, gossip, drunkenness, or other evils that exist in the hearts of vulnerable people. ——British proverb

5. An ungrateful person cannot be saved if he is in trouble. ——Greek proverb

6. An ignorant person wants to do something good, but in the end he does harm to others; the little magpie plucks out its mother's feathers, thinking that it has repaid the kindness of raising her. ——Tibetan proverb

7. The most important thing for a filial son is to respect his relatives; the most important thing to respect his relatives is to support him in the world. ——Mencius

8. Without gratitude, there is no real virtue. ——Rousseau

9. Every kind of favor has a barb, which will hook the mouth that swallows the favor. The benefactor can drag him wherever he wants. ——Tang En

10. The bees sipped honey from the flowers and thanked them Yingying when they left. The flamboyant butterfly believes that the flower should thank him. —— Tagore

11. How similar mothers are all over the world! Their hearts are always the same, and they all have an extremely pure and innocent heart.

——Whitman

12. When people help me, I will never forget it; when I help others, I won’t forget it. ——Hua Luogeng

13. The most beautiful scene in the world occurs when we miss our mother. —— Maupassant

14. If a person receives a great favor and later turns against the benefactor, he must take care of his own dignity and must be more vicious than an unrelated stranger. He must prove the other person's guilt before he can explain it. My own ruthlessness. —— Thackeray

15. Life needs a grateful heart to create, and a grateful heart needs life to nourish. ——Wang Fu

16. The virtue of parents is a huge wealth. ——Horace

17. The kindness of parents cannot be drowned by water or extinguished by fire. ——Proverb from the former Soviet Union

18. Gratitude is the health of the soul. ——Nietzsche

19. Gratitude is a spiritual treasure. ——Locke

20. Gratitude is the least of virtues, and ungratefulness is the worst of conduct. ——British proverb