The famous sayings about being a person first and doing things later are as follows:

1. As a person, you must abide by your own principles. A person must have correct life beliefs and persistent pursuit of life. A person must conform to the trend of history and cannot follow the trend. Tao Yuanming would not bow down for five pecks of rice, Zhu Ziqing would rather starve to death than eat American flour, and Lu Xun "looked coldly at a thousand men with cold eyebrows, and bowed his head willingly to be a Ruzi Niu".

2. Being a human being must be tempered in practice. Modern youth, growing up in a peaceful and favorable environment, need to train themselves in practice. Those who are unwilling to endure hardships and work hard will not be able to achieve great things, nor will they become indomitable talents.

3. You must have a good character and be good at taking losses. Gold will shine wherever you go. Only by being low-key and doing things high-key will you have invincible power.

4. Being a person and doing things are both separate and unified. Fundamentally, doing things is both a person and a person. People and things can be compared with shapes and shadows. If you are upright, you will not be afraid of slanted shadows. The problem of people and things essentially comes down to the problem of conduct, so be a person first and then do things.

5. Persist in saying good things about others behind their backs, and don’t worry that the good things won’t reach the ears of the person involved.