Zeng Guofan's famous saying:

Too much aloofness will hurt benevolence, and too much docility will hurt justice. This is why you value the middle way.

If you have peace of mind, you can survive the dangers of life. The intricate connections can test my talent; the ups and downs can test my ability; the difficulties and obstacles can test my thinking; the shock and balance can test my strength; the enduring humiliation can test my ability.

Be diligent in your country, be thrifty in your family, be loyal in words and respectful in deeds.

To be self-sufficient based on talent and self-respecting based on ability will be tabooed by villains and despised by gentlemen.

First calm down, then think about it, then do it with 50 or 60% confidence.

Being obedient is shameful, being self-willed is abominable. Not being attached to anything is the middle way. It is rare to find one, but it is the most elegant thing to be able to stand in the midst of waves and trends.

When doing official business, you must be thoughtful and foresighted.

To achieve great things in ancient times, both large scale and comprehensive management are indispensable.

I always have a worried heart.

Don’t show too much mercy.

Put understanding talents first.

Start from scratch and reopen the world.

When the heart is extremely miserable, things are extremely prosperous.

The rice has become rice and the wood has become a boat, so we have no choice but to let it go.

The heroes of entrepreneurship in prosperous times take open-mindedness as their first priority.

Forbid big talk and be pragmatic.

Zeng Guofan's motto: If you are not a sage, you will be a beast; don't care about harvest, just about hard work.

Zeng Guofan was an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, the father of the Hunan Army, and the founder and commander of the Hunan Army. He was a strategist, Neo-Confucianist, politician, calligrapher, and writer of the Qing Dynasty, and the founder of the "Xiangxiang School" of prose in the late Qing Dynasty. One of the "Four Famous Officials of the Zhongxing Dynasty" in the late Qing Dynasty, he served as governor of Liangjiang, governor of Zhili, and bachelor of Wuyingdian. He was awarded the title of first-class Yiyong Marquis, and his posthumous title was Wenzheng. Mao Zedong once said: "If you are foolish than your neighbors, you will only obey Zeng Wenzheng." Some commentators said: If we judge by characters, Zeng Guofan is the last person in ancient Chinese history and the first person in modern history.