Famous quotes about self-reliance and self-improvement

1. The world is governed by the powerful, and those who should be powerful should be above all else. —— Maupassant

2. Only books are immortal. ——Jotte

3. A man’s ambition is not to seek a career alone. ——Du Xunhe

4. Lianjun’s head turned gray early, but his ambition never faded. ——Bai Juyi

5. Don’t be downcast, even if you lose everything, tomorrow is still in your hands. ——Wilde

6. Don’t betray for the sake of poverty, and don’t change your ambition for the sake of humbleness. ——Huan Kuan

7. If there is no ambition, transcendence will not be high. ——Guo Moruo

8. You are as weak as water. People will soon discover this. They won't have to look hard to figure out that you have no backbone. They can deal with you like a slave. ——Mark Twain

9. Although my body is not free, my heart is free. Let my heart transcend my body and go to the crowd, immersed in joy, and pursue a beautiful life! ——Helen Keller

10. Earth can build a city wall, and virtue can build a solid foundation. ——Li Bai

11. A trickle of water can wear away a boulder, not because it is powerful, but because it drips day and night. Those skills can only be acquired through diligent and unremitting efforts. ——Beethoven

12. If you love the eternity, you should love the present; yesterday cannot be brought back, and tomorrow will still be unreal; the only thing you can be sure of is today's present. ——Emerson

13. Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy. ——Confucius

14. Reading is to build one's own thoughts with the help of other people's thoughts. ——Lu Bajin

15. Courage is the inevitable result of wisdom and a certain degree of education. ——Leo Tolstoy

16. Heroes are not born, but men should strengthen themselves.

17. The reason why people often feel troubled is because they always seek themselves. Strive to be yourself and be true to yourself at all times. Strive to achieve inner harmony. ——Gorky

18. Where there is a will, things will turn out to be ruined. A hundred and two Qin passes will eventually belong to Chu. The painstaking efforts of man and nature will pay off. Three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu. ——Pu Songling

19. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time. ——Bacon

20. "Time is money in the world." Therefore, thieves who steal other people's time should of course be punished. Even those pleasant and good people should still avoid them as if they are taboo diseases. . ——Carnegie

21. Learning without thinking is a waste, and thinking without learning is a disaster. ——Confucius

22. Books are not only life, but also the source of cultural life in the present, past and future. ——Kufaev

23. Action creates difficulties, difficulties create doubts, doubts create hypotheses, hypotheses create experiments, experiments create assertions, assertions create actions, and this evolves to infinity. ——Tao Xingzhi

24. Real life can only be realized after a difficult and arduous struggle. ——Seneca

25. Hope is the wet nurse of life. ——Kotzebue

26. The strong can fight in the storm of fate. ——Britain

27. Aspirations are used to achieve enlightenment, and words are used to declare aspiration. ——Wang Tong

28. Those who are cautious may seem timid at first, but will eventually be brave; those who act lightly may seem brave at first, but may eventually become timid. ——Su Shi

29. Only by devoting oneself to society can one find out the meaning of a life that is actually short and risky. ——Einstein

30. Do you want to be a happy person? I hope you learn to bear hardships first. ——Turgenev

31. It is better to serve yourself than to serve others, and it is better to serve others than to serve oneself. ——Han Feizi

32. Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is the stuff of life. ——Franklin

33. A gentleman’s journey is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate one’s virtue through frugality. If it is not indifferent, it will not clear its aspirations, and if it is not tranquil, it will not be far-reaching. ——Zhuge Liang

34. If we want to make friends, we must first do things for others - things that require time, energy, thoughtfulness and dedication to do. ——Carnegie

35. Read for the rise of China. ——Zhou Enlai

36. Whoever works as hard as me will be as successful as me.

——Mozart

37. Once you choose the path of life, you must bravely walk to the end and never look back. ——Zola

38. Time is a lovely lover. I am so enamored with you that I am telling you every minute; work, create, and don’t waste your life. ——Yu Sha

39. People must have self-confidence. This is the secret of success. ——Chaplin

40. Bitterness and sweetness come from the outside world, while strength comes from the heart and comes from a person's self-effort. ——Einstein

41. To read any good book is to talk to many noble people. ——Descartes

42. Books introduce us to the best society and enable us to get to know the great wise men of all ages. ——Smiles

43. Disrespect for others is first of all disrespect for yourself. ——Whitman