Four examples of modesty in ancient and modern China and foreign countries

Don't brag about yourself, Niu Yi. Pride and complacency will turn over. Looking at many things in ancient and modern times, from humble to luxurious. -Chen Yi

Dissatisfaction is the upward wheel. -Lu Xun

If you humble yourself, you will depend on many people; If you are arrogant, more people will go. -Ge Hong

Those who rely on the size of the country, cherish the people and want to see the enemy are called arrogant soldiers. Wei Xiang

If debauchery fails, it is a disaster to be full. Yong Zhang

Empty people are the foundation of virtue. -Fang Xiaoru

What does it matter if you are full of profits? Be careful! Be careful! Zhu Shunshui

Life is a serious illness, just one word "pride". —— Wang Yangming

Without arrogance or rashness, you can learn from others or yourself. -Tan Sitong

The stupidest thing in life is that the bad news has passed, and the worst thing in life is that you are good at talking about people. -Shen Juyi

Enrichment is easy to be a disaster, and modesty is often a blessing. -Zhang

Complacency is a terrible trap for us; Besides, we dug this trap ourselves. -Lao She

It is normal for a mediocre and militant person to go out on his high horse and go home with his tail between his legs. Xuefeng Feng

We shouldn't put our eyes on our heads, so that we can fall from the sky with our own feet and break what we want. Xuefeng Feng

Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind. We should always remember this truth. Mao Zedong

We can't make achievements, just like a ball that others can't shoot. We can jump very high with a tap. The greater the achievement, the more modest and prudent you should be. -Wang Jinxi

I doubt the word "pride". Anyone who is a little self-motivated and capable always believes in himself and is a man of his own mind. The more assertive people are, the more confident they are. This is not bad. A little proud. If he is put in the right position, he will be modest, otherwise he will not get along.

Deng Xiaoping

Proud people always destroy themselves in pride. -Shakespeare

Anyone who owes too much luck to his intelligence is likely to have an unfortunate ending. bacon

Modesty is an indispensable virtue. -Montesquieu

The bud of virtue is humility, which is the most precious virtue and the mother of all morality; With this virtue, we will have endless fun. -galdos

Caution is more powerful than boldness. Hugo

Don't be extravagant It is better to speak incompletely than to talk too much. Leo Tolstoy

The first condition of success is true modesty. I am willing to give up all my preconceptions about myself as long as I see that they conflict with the truth. Spencer

Humility can make a soldier more beautiful. Ostrovsky

The most difficult thing to overcome in people's feelings is pride. You can change it, hit it, beat it, jump on it, humiliate it, and it will hold its head high and show itself.

Franklin

When we are very humble, we are very great recently. Tagore

Conceit is the destruction of any art. Pride is a terrible misfortune. Dimitrov

True modesty can only be the product of deep thinking about vanity. -Bergson

If you refuse to give advice, the hero will be scattered, and if you don't obey, the counselor will rebel. Huangshigong

If you are not proud, you are proud, not arrogant. -Zhuge Liang

Avoid exuberance and novelty, and then avoid dew. Kun Lv

High-risk is modest and self-grazing; If you are full of fear, you will think of rivers and oceans. Wei Zhi

Say that your strength is long or short, and know that you are long. -Shen Juyi

Modesty is not the so-called modesty in the general sense, but only accepting people's opinions on the surface, nor does it mean not arguing and criticizing with others and blurring the boundary between right and wrong and truth. Instead, we should maintain our own political stance and not blindly follow other people's opinions before we understand them.

-Xu Teli

Every minute of complacency, in this minute, stopped absorbing life and excreting life. Only by accepting criticism can we get rid of all the spiritual dross. Only by absorbing other people's opinions can we add new spiritual nourishment.

-Xu Teli

True modesty means being free from prejudice, completely emancipating the mind, not being bound by anything, holding a realistic attitude towards everything, analyzing the situation in detail, considering the opinions reflected by either side and not turning a deaf ear.

-Deng Tuo

In order to completely prevent and overcome subjectivism in different degrees, we can only ask ourselves to be truly open-minded when things happen. -Deng Tuo

The enemy of learning is your own satisfaction. Study hard and never be complacent. We should adopt this attitude towards ourselves, "never tire of learning" and treat others "never tire of teaching".

Mao Zedong

My motto is: people should not be arrogant, but not arrogant. -Xu Beihong

Learning is not enough, and modesty comes from not being satisfied. False modesty can only win vulgar applause, but can not make real progress. -Hua

All I have to do is reach out and harvest the crops that others have sown for me. -Goethe

Modest students cherish the truth and don't care about personal praise: the first thing that unpretentious students think of is to show off personal praise and be indifferent to the truth. In the history of thought, modesty is almost always directly proportional to students' talents, while immodesty is inversely proportional.

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Never think you know everything. -Pavlov

The ruler is relatively short; Every inch has its advantages. Insufficient things; I can't think clearly. —— Qu Yuan

Always worry about lack, seize every worry. Jian Wendi

Dead people are scarce, and bright people are easy to pollute. The song "Yangchun", harmony is few. Under the fame, it is really difficult to be a deputy. Ye fan

Pride, desire, happiness, ambition. Wei Zhi

Only when the merits are incomplete and the strengths are not taken, will there be shortcomings. -Song Lian

Too short to protect, too short to protect; If it is long, it is not long. -Nie Danian

Ah! Praise, from your own mouth, how boring! -Montesquieu

None of our habits is so difficult as overcoming pride. Although I tried to hide it, overcome it and destroy it, I still unconsciously revealed it anyway. ——

Franklin

A knowledgeable person is not modest; A well-informed and capable person must be modest. -Xie Juezai

If you are brave, you will become stupid. -Su Shi

When I count many wonderful creations invented by human beings in art and literature, and then review my knowledge, I feel humble. Galileo

Only when everyone here stops talking and has the opportunity can we ask questions with an open mind and learn from others. John Locke

If you are not modest, you can only have this excuse, that is, if you are not modest, you are ignorant. Franklin

Everything that is true and great is simple and humble. -belinsky

It's totally out of my nature not to make progress in some small achievements. Climbing up the ladder is of course good. As long as you have strength, it means taking a step forward.

-Andersen

Most scientists hate superlatives and exaggerations, and great people are usually modest and prudent. William Lan Beardmore Beveridge

What constitutes the biggest obstacle to our study is the known, not the unknown. bernard

Being lazy in thinking, unwilling to delve into and deeply understand, complacent or content with trivial knowledge are all reasons for poor intelligence. This kind of poverty is usually called by one word, which is "stupid".

Gorky

The more incompetent, the more pretentious. -Deng Tuo

Great people will never abuse their advantages. They see that they are superior to others and realize this, but they will never be modest. The better they are, the more they realize their own shortcomings.

-Rousseau

Most of our pride is based on our ignorance! -Lessing

Despicable and arrogant motives will only satisfy the greed of fools, military commanders, human invaders and marauders. People should give up this motivation and stop letting these attractive drinks anesthetize those pretentious people!

-Saint-Simon

If a person counts what he has learned from others as his own discovery, it is also close to vanity. -Hegel

A fool is conceited, and his complacency is precisely the shortcoming of being laughed at and ridiculed, and he often exaggerates what should be regarded as a great shame. -krylov

Never think you know everything. No matter how highly people think of you, you should have the courage to say to yourself: I am a person who knows nothing.

-Pavlov

Never get stuck in pride. Because once you are proud, you will be stubborn when you agree; Because once you are proud, you will refuse other people's advice and friendship. Because once you are proud, you will lose your objective standards.

-Pavlov

No matter how great our achievements are, we should still be aware of the enemy's strength, be vigilant, and never allow ourselves to be complacent or neglect our own team.

-Stalin

The greatest pride and the greatest inferiority both show that the mind is the most fragile. -Spinoza

The spirit of a great man with lofty ideals should not be underestimated. -Zhuge Liang

Arrogant flattery is a person. It is flattery that wins us, but arrogance that doesn't understand us. -Shen Juyi

Modesty has a good reputation, and people who are too modest should beware of fraud. -Zhu

A proud person likes to see people who cling to him or flatter him, and hates to see noble people. ..... and the result is that these people fooled him, catered to his fragile heart, and turned him from a fool into a madman.

-Spinoza

A proud person is bound to be jealous. What he envies most is the person who is praised for his virtue. -Spinoza

It is inferiority to think too low of yourself because of pain. -Spinoza

Although inferiority is opposite to pride, it is actually the closest to pride. -Spinoza

Obviously, pride and humility are the opposite, but the object is the same. This object is the self. Hume

First of all, I ask you to believe in science, rationality, yourself and yourself. -Hegel

It is not good to be humble to others, nor is it good to be humble to others. -Xu Teli

Everyone should have self-esteem, self-confidence and independence, otherwise he is a slave. But self-esteem is not belittling people, self-confidence is not complacency, and independence is not an arc. -Xu Teli

No matter when others are around or when you are alone, don't do anything despicable: the most important thing is self-esteem. Pythagoras

There are two kinds of impoliteness: the first is coy and shy; The second is misconduct and neglect; To avoid these two situations, we must abide by the following rules, that is, don't look down on yourself or others.

John Locke

The most blind obedience is the only virtue left by slaves. -Rousseau