Quotations about tutoring

1. Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and love show character, and diligence and thrift in farming and study show family tradition.

2. House managers are most afraid of extravagance.

3. Peace is the main word in running a family.

4. If you govern your family strictly, the family will be harmonious; if you live in a rural area, you will be harmonious.

5. As long as people’s thoughts are not censored, everyone likes their children to be stronger, healthier, smarter and nobler than themselves.

6. A meaningful life must have a plan.

7. Having wealth without righteousness will only bring disaster to the family.

8. Those who leave virtue behind will prosper; those who leave wealth behind will perish.

9. To have a healthy and happy human being, you must have a healthy and happy mother.

10. Failure to teach is the fault of the father; failure to teach strictly is the fault of the teacher.

11. Cultivate oneself and bring order to the family; bring order to the family and then rule the country; rule the country and then bring peace to the world.

12. Don't be suspicious, don't listen to divisive words, don't do anything to make a living, don't focus on the interests of public affairs.

13. A brother must love his brother, and a brother must respect his brother. Don't use the slightest sharpness to hurt this flesh and blood relationship.

14. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

15. A flawless jade can be a national weapon; a filial son can be a national auspiciousness.

16. A ruthless person may not be a true hero, but a pity for a son is not a husband.

17. I am only concentrating on my studies now, so don’t waste your youth lightly.

18. Those who make plans for wealth and wealth for their descendants will lose nine times out of ten.

19. Creating a happy fireside atmosphere for your wife and children is a truly noble and passionate life.

20. If you are a father and fail to fulfill your father's duty, then your family will have no filial son; if you are a teacher and you are unable to fulfill your teacher's duty, your family will have no skilled people.

21. If you use calculations, you will have enough food and clothing; if you use calculations, the sea will be dry and the mountains will be empty.

22. If you want things to go well, ask the elders; if your family wants to prosper, ask the younger generation.

23. If a scholar has shrewd women, good friends will not come; if the state has jealous ministers, no wise men will remain.

24. After giving birth to a child, you still need to think about how to educate so that the child will become a complete person in the future.

25. Living in a family that has lost harmony is equivalent to living in hell.

26. If a family is at odds with itself, that family cannot stand.

27. People leave their children and grandchildren with wealth, but I leave my children and grandchildren with innocence.

28. There are no virtuous fathers and brothers in life, and there are no strict teachers and friends outside. However, few people can succeed.

29. The prosperity of humanity must come from couples.

30. When people quarrel, they lose, and pigs hawk.

31. Diligence and thrift are the foundation of running a family, harmony is the foundation of keeping the family in order, prudence is the foundation of protecting the family, poetry and writing are the foundation of starting a business, and loyalty and filial piety are the foundation of passing down the family.

32. Hate between relatives is more dangerous than scorpions.

33. A gentleman must be able to tolerate others at home.

34. Awakened parents should be obligatory, altruistic and sacrificial.

35. If a family has one mind, it will have money to buy gold; if a family has two minds, it will have no money to buy needles.

36. A prosperous family produces filial sons, but a failed family produces evildoers.

37. Family is nothing but human beings themselves.

38. The family and life are prosperous, and the people and career are prosperous.

39. If the family is not harmonious, it will prevent neighbors from bullying; if the neighbors are not harmonious, it will prevent external bullying.

40. Accumulate small money to do big things; accumulate spare money to do urgent things.

41. It is easy to live in harmony, but it is difficult to live in disobedience.

42. Children need to be taught by others, and their problems need to be cured by others.

43. National prestige should not be damaged internally, and family scandal should not be publicized externally.

44. Those who accumulate extensively will cause harm to their descendants; those who are too sensual will ruin their lives.

45. If the children of rich and noble people fail to succeed, they will be tolerated; if the children of poor and humble people are easy to succeed, they will be accustomed to strict restraint.

46. A father loves his son and teaches him righteousness.

47. Parents who love their children have far-reaching plans.

48. Anyone who does not love himself truly lacks the qualifications to be a father.

49. Getting rich depends on hard work, and losing money is mostly due to prostitution.

50. Children are the ones who create the industry, not the ones who inherit the inheritance.

51. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, so don’t work for them.

52. Fighting will not support the family, and supporting the family will not support the family.

53. The east is good and the west is good, but not as good as the best at home.

54. The two words to inherit a family are reading and farming, and the two words to build a family are thrift and diligence.

55. Eating, dressing, and taking possessions, a housekeeper should be careful not to panic.

56. Success comes from diligence and frugality, failure comes from luxury.

57. A married man’s son is like a treasure; a prodigal son’s money is like grass.

58. Elders must be guides and negotiators, but they should not be commanders.

59. If you are not strict, you will not be successful.

60. A person who does not love his wife and children is raising a lioness at home and hatching a litter of misfortune.