Among any three people walking, I will find something to learn for sure. Their good qualities are to be followed, and their shortcomings are to be avoided.
士不可以不弘毅,任重而道远。仁以为己任,不亦重乎?死而后己,不亦远乎?
An educated gentleman cannot but be resolute and broad-minded, for he has taken up a heavy responsibility and a long course. Is it not a heavy
responsibility, which is to practice benevolence? Is it not a long course, which will end only with his death?
士之为人,当理不避其难,临患忘利,遗生行义,视死如归。
A moral intellectual is one who escapes no danger in face of truth, discards personal interests in front of disaster, practices righteousness at the expense of life, and looks upon death as going home.
逝者如斯夫!不舍昼夜。
The passage of time is just like the flow of water, which goes on day and night.
顺天者存,逆天者亡。
Those who follow the Heaven’s law will survive; those who go against it will perish.