Excerpts from Zeng Guofan's famous sayings 1
1. A hero who started a business and reunified the country in the prosperous times had an open-mindedness as his first righteousness; a hero who rescued people in danger in the last days took hard work as his first righteousness .
2. When scholars study, they must first be ambitious, secondly knowledgeable, and thirdly perseverant. If you have ambition, you will never be willing to be humble. If you have knowledge, you know that knowledge is endless, and you dare not be satisfied with just one thing. You are like a river boy looking at the sea, or a well frog looking at the sky, both of which have no knowledge. With perseverance, nothing can be accomplished. All three are indispensable.
3. Keep your ambition strong, work hard, and work hard. No matter how big or small, you will succeed.
4. Four ways to observe people: be trustworthy, non-bureaucratic, organized, and less talkative.
5. If you have a broad mind, you should learn from the two words "flat" and "light". We must be flat when we are ordinary people, and we must be light when it comes to fame. The common people's minds will become wider and wider.
6. Wherever the ambition is, gold and stone will open, who can control it?
7. When an ordinary person does something, he must concentrate on it with all his energy, without any change from beginning to end, without changing his mind. He does this, thinks that, sits on this mountain, and looks at that mountain. A person has no permanence and accomplishes nothing in his life.
8. 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.
9. Heroes from ancient times, my grandfather taught people to regard the four words "cowardly and without strength" as a great shame, so a man must be stubborn to stand on his own. However, when tens of thousands of people are trapped under a fortified city, it is easiest to secretly display their strength. My brother is able to cultivate the strength of tens of thousands of people without losing it for a long time. This is an extraordinary thing, and it is even more appropriate to make more contributions from now on.
10. A diligent family will be prosperous, a diligent person will be thrifty, and he will never be poor.
11. Think big and start small
12. A gentleman’s determination must be measured by the people and things, and he must have the career of being a saint within and a king outside, and then he will not disobey his parents. He was born worthy of being a perfect person in heaven and earth.
13. The sages and heroes of the ages, who are both treacherous and determined, have nothing more than the word "diligence".
14. The mediocre people in the world, both ancient and modern, are all defeated by the word laziness; the talents in the world, ancient and modern, are all defeated by the word arrogance.
15. Zeng Guofan’s Quotes: 1. To be disliked by others cannot be separated from being arrogant. 2. Don’t be too smart. 3. To have a broad mind, you must learn from the word plain. 4. Those who enjoy great fame without reality will be in trouble. 5. Don’t criticize the ancients lightly. 6. Calm down first, then think about it, then do it with 50 or 60% confidence. 7. Start anew and reopen the world. 8. To be self-reliant, a man must be stubborn. 9. Being troubled and worried is the time to hone your heroes. 10. Don’t take credit for your merits alone, and don’t shirk responsibility for your mistakes.
16. Don’t be afraid of being poor when you are young.
17. If you have anything to do with suspicious people, it will not work out. If you do things with beneficial people, you will suffer.
18. If you are not a sage, you will be a beast; you don’t care about harvest, but about hard work.
19. Be content with the breadth of the world, but be greedy for the narrowness of the universe.
20. Those in high positions have the job of knowing people and things. Excerpts of Zeng Guofan’s famous sayings 2
1. All the mediocre people in the world, ancient and modern, have been defeated by one word of laziness; All the talents are defeated by the word "arrogance". ——Zeng Guofan
2. When scholars study, they must first be ambitious, secondly knowledgeable, and thirdly perseverant. If you have ambition, you will never be willing to be humble. If you have knowledge, you know that knowledge is endless, and you dare not be satisfied with just one thing. You are like a river boy looking at the sea, or a well frog looking at the sky, both of which have no knowledge. With perseverance, nothing can be accomplished. All three are indispensable. ——Zeng Guofan's "Letter from Zeng Guofan's Family"
3. The sky shines on the sea with countless flowers, and the flowing water and the high mountains make the heart know itself. ——Zeng Guofan
4. If you don’t love the past, you won’t love the present, and you won’t welcome the future. ——Zeng Guofan
5. When a mortal does something, he must concentrate on it with all his energy, without any change in thoughts. Do this, think about that, sit on this mountain, and look at that mountain. A person has no permanence and accomplishes nothing in his life. ——Zeng Guofan's "Letter from the Family of Zeng Guofan"
6. Those who are impatient will not have the sense of perseverance, those who are too fearful will not have outstanding views, those who are too lustful will not be generous, and those who talk too much will have no substance. If you are brave, you will not have the elegance of literature. ——Zeng Guofan
7. 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.
——Zeng Guofan's "Letter from the Family of Zeng Guofan"
8. Quotations from Zeng Guofan: 1. To be disliked is to be arrogant. 2. Don’t be too smart. 3. To have a broad mind, you must learn from the word plain. 4. Those who enjoy great fame without reality will be in great trouble. 5. Don’t criticize the ancients lightly. 6. Be still first, then think about it, and then do it with 50 or 60% confidence. 7. Start anew and reopen the world. 8. To be self-reliant, a man must be stubborn. 9. Being troubled and worried is the time to hone your heroes. 10. Don’t keep credit alone, and don’t shirk blame for faults. ——Zeng Guofan
9. Four ways to look at people: be trustworthy, be unofficial, be organized, and rarely talk big. ——Zeng Guofan
10. A person who likes reading will not have bad character; a person with good character will not have bad luck in life. ——Zeng Guofan
11. Light wealth is enough to gather people, a person with a heavy head is enough to win people, and a generous person is enough to lead people. ——Zeng Guofan
12. Keep your ambition strong, work hard, and work hard. No matter how big or small, you will succeed. ——Zeng Guofan
13. The sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, and the Nanshan Mountains can be moved. The sun and the moon have passed and cannot be traced back. ——Zeng Guofan
14. If you fight with suspicious people, nothing will happen. If you do things with beneficial people, you will suffer. ——Zeng Guofan
15. Don’t be afraid of being poor when you are young. ——Zeng Guofan
16. To look at the success or failure of a family, look at the first three places and what time the children and grandchildren sleep until. If you don’t get up until the sun has risen very high, it means this The family will gradually become slack; secondly, it depends on whether the descendants do housework, because the habit of hard work and labor affects a person for a lifetime; thirdly, it depends on whether the descendants are reading the classics of sages. Know". ——Zeng Guofan
17. If it is too soft, it will be weak, if it is too hard, it will break; hardness comes from softness, and softness can overcome hardness. ——Zeng Guofan
18. A diligent family will be prosperous, a diligent person will be thrifty, and he will never be poor. ——Zeng Guofan's "Letter from the Family of Zeng Guofan"
19. ①Don't do things that are of long-term benefit, and don't go to areas where everyone is fighting; ②Don't abandon people with small evils and great beauty, don't forget people with small grudges and great kindness; ③Talk about people The shortcoming is to protect one's own shortcomings, and to praise one's own strengths is to avoid the strengths of others; ④ Benefits can be exploited but not alone, and planning can only be done by a few but not by many; ⑤ The mediocre people in the world, ancient and modern, all lead to defeat with one word of laziness. All the talented people in the world, ancient and modern, are defeated by the word "arrogance"; ⑥Whenever great things are accomplished, knowledge is the main factor and talent is the supplement. Man's plan is half of it and God's will is half of it. ——Zeng Guofan
20. If you are not a sage, you will be a beast; you don’t care about harvest, but about hard work. ——Zeng Guofan
21. Be content with the breadth of the world, but be greedy for the narrowness of the universe. ——Zeng Guofan, "Zeng Wenzhenggong's Family Instructions"
22. Youth cannot endure good times, middle age cannot endure leisure, and old age cannot endure adversity. Zeng Guofan's theory of three realms of life. ——Zeng Guofan
23. Think big and start small——Zeng Guofan
24. "I am left alone for a thousand years, and I will study again after returning from hundreds of battles - Zeng Guofan"
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25. Being cautious and independent will make you feel at ease, being respectful to your master will make you strong physically, seeking benevolence will make people happy, and practicing hard work will make you admire your spirit. ——Zeng Guofan's "Book of Commandments"
26. Don't keep merit alone, and don't shirk blame for faults! ——Zeng Guofan
27. If you have a broad mind, you should learn from the two words "flat" and "light". As a mortal, we must look at the situation as flat, and at the time of fame and fame, we must look at it lightly. The common people's minds will become wider and wider. ——Zeng Guofan's "Letter from Zeng Guofan's Family"
28. Get up at dawn, don't be clingy after waking up. ——Zeng Guofan
29. Those in high positions take it as their job to know people and things. ——Zeng Guofan
30. The world should focus on the big picture and start small. ——Zeng Guofan "A Letter to Wu Zhu"
31. Half of the things in the world are caused by stimulation and force. ——Zeng Guofan
32. Wherever the ambition goes, gold and stone are opened, who can control it? ——Zeng Guofan
33. Heroes from ancient times, my grandfather taught people to regard the four words "cowardly and without strength" as a great shame, so a man must be stubborn to be independent. However, when tens of thousands of people are trapped under a fortified city, it is easiest to secretly display their strength. I am able to nourish the strong energy of tens of thousands of people without losing it for a long time. This is an extraordinary thing, and it is even more appropriate to make more efforts from now on.
——Zeng Guofan "Zeng Guofan's Family Letter"
34. There is no word for luxury when the family is ruined, there is no word for elegance when a person is ruined, and there is no word for arrogance when people are displeased. ——Zeng Guofan
35. Don’t act as you please, and don’t speak as you say ——Zeng Guofan
36. Don’t be afraid of being poor as a young person in life. ——Zeng Guofan
37. The sages and heroes of the ages, who are both treacherous and determined, have nothing more than the word "diligence". ——Zeng Guofan
38. There are things that can be done in life, and there are also things that cannot be done. If you can do something, you should try your best to do it. This is called doing your best. If you can't do something, you should do it with all your heart. This is called knowing your destiny. ——Zeng Guofan
39. A gentleman’s ambition must be measured by the people and things, and he must have the deeds of being a saint within and a king outside. Then he will not be dissatisfied with the birth of his parents, and he will be worthy of being a perfect man in heaven and earth. ——Zeng Guofan's "Letter from Zeng Guofan's Family"
40. Think big, start small, keep your mouth shut when in groups, keep your heart when alone - Zeng Guofan
41. Treat your relatives with love for your wife, Then there is no way to go without filial piety. If you blame yourself with the same intention of blaming others, you will make few mistakes. If you forgive others with the same heart that you forgive yourself, then you will be friends with everyone. ——Zeng Guofan
42. When everything is extremely difficult, the one who can get through it is the hero. ——Zeng Guofan
43. A hero who started a business and reunified the country in the prosperous times had an open-mindedness as his first righteousness; a hero who rescued people in danger in the last days took hard work as his first righteousness. ——Zeng Guofan's "Letter to the Family of Zeng Guofan"
44. Diligence and frugality have never failed. Arrogant, extravagant and tired, there is no way to be invincible! ——Zeng Guofan's "Letter from the Family of Zeng Guofan"
45. To live a life without seeking wealth, to study without seeking an official position, to cultivate virtue without seeking reward, to write without seeking biography, is like drinking without getting drunk, and being intoxicated with joy, which contains I didn't understand what I wanted to say, and I forgot what I wanted to say. ——Zeng Guofan
46. Working hard is like digging a well. Instead of digging several wells but none of them reach the spring, how about always guarding one well and striving to reach the spring and use it inexhaustibly?——Zeng Guofan
47. The way of heaven prohibits cleverness, retreat without fighting, and seek without tricks. ——Zeng Guofan
48. Don’t welcome the future, don’t mess with the present, and don’t think about the past. ——Zeng Guofan, "Battle of Tianjing"
49. You can't stand poverty, you can't stand up, you can't stand humiliation, you can't do anything. ——Zeng Guofan
50. Gather everyone’s private interests and become the public of the world. ——Zeng Guofan Excerpt 3 of Zeng Guofan's famous sayings
He cultivated his moral character throughout his life and had thirteen sets of knowledge. Among them, "Zeng Guofan's Family Letter" records his important thoughts on self-cultivation, family management, and politics throughout his life. Easy to understand, profound and worth learning. Zeng Guofan also left behind many insights on life and aphorisms on how to behave in life.
There is such a couplet, which was given to a friend by Zeng Guofan. There are only 16 characters in the couplet, but it contains the principles of life and doing things. As long as you understand half of a sentence, your life will be smooth sailing. This couplet is: "Think big, start small; live in groups and keep your mouth shut, live alone and keep your heart."
Think big, start small It can be divided into two steps, the first step is planning and the second step is implementation.
How to plan something? Zeng Guofan told us that we should “think big”. Thinking big is one's vision and one's state of mind. "Aspirations should be high." To do something, you should have high aspirations, long-term plans, and a broad vision. Whether it is as small as one thing or as big as the entire life, we must have an overall view.
Set goals, make plans, how to do something? Start small. Practice brings true knowledge, and remember not to think too high and think too low. Now that we have set goals and planned plans, we must gradually implement the plans and achieve the goals. Starting small is a matter of one's attitude and one's character. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” No matter how ambitious a goal is, it must be achieved with both hands and feet.
"Look up at the stars and keep your feet on the ground." The same is true in life. Those who have high vision and low hand can only boast, but those who have low vision and high hand can hardly achieve great things. Only by clarifying your goals in life, correcting your attitude towards life, and putting your ideals into action can you achieve a career.
“Think big, start small” tells us the philosophy of life in doing things.
Live in groups and keep your mouth shut, and live alone and keep your heart.
Man is an animal, a thoughtful and advanced animal. Either living in groups or alone.
How do you get along with everyone when you are away from home and working? Zeng Guofan warned us to "live in groups and keep our mouths shut." As the saying goes, "Silence is golden." Too many words lead to failure. These philosophies do not tell us to keep silent, but they tell us to think deeply and carefully before saying anything, try not to say anything if we can, and try not to express opinions and opinions if we can. Zhang Tingyu, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, survived the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties. His philosophy of survival was eight words: "It is better to say nothing than to say nothing." This means that even if what you say is very appropriate and correct, but once Once you say it, it's hard to take it back, so it's better not to say it. Zhang Tingyu relied on the Eight-Character Mantra to finally qualify for the "Ancestral Temple" and became the only Han Chinese in the Qing Dynasty to receive this honor.
It is said in the Confucian classic "The Great Learning": "Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious about being alone." The word "being cautious about being alone" is also mentioned in works such as "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Book of Rites". "Be cautious in being alone", as the name suggests, means that a person should act cautiously and abide by moral principles and social rules when living alone. Zeng Guofan said "live alone and guard your heart", which expresses "be cautious in being alone". Being cautious means cultivating one's body and mind. The more one is alone, the more one should be consistent on the inside and outside. Zeng Guofan warned his children and younger generations to "be careful in being alone, and you will have peace of mind." Only by being cautious in being alone can you have peace of mind. As a person, you can't do one thing in front of others and another behind others; you can't do one thing in front of others and another behind your back. Han Yu said, "Look up to the sky without being ashamed, bow down to the earth without being ashamed, and be within yourself without being ashamed of your heart." This is what a gentleman should do.
Keep your mouth, your body, your mind, think carefully, speak carefully, and act carefully. Words and deeds are consistent, knowledge and action are unified, there are rules and standards in the heart, and actions have standards and morality. Only in this way can you be a perfect person.
"Keep your mouth shut when you live in groups, keep your heart when you live alone" tells us the philosophy of life.
"Think big, start small; live in groups and keep your mouth shut, live alone and keep your heart." These simple sixteen words are Zeng Guofan's summary and condensation of the thoughts of his predecessors in the past, and also his own conduct. The norms and principles are also a kind of warning and persuasion to us. The same is true in life. Aim high, be down-to-earth, think carefully and act diligently, and integrate knowledge and action. In this way, you can have a smooth career and happiness.