Help get some stories about self-improvement. Short.

"Ten years of life gathering, ten years of lessons", the Yue Wang Goujian finally won, "lying down to taste the gall bladder" rightly became a classic story to educate people to strive for strength and self-improvement

Zhang Haidi said, "I am like a A shooting star, to leave the light on earth." With such an ideal, she studied and worked with extraordinary perseverance, singing a hymn to life.

Heaven walks with health, and the gentleman is unceasing in his self-improvement. --Zhou Yi - Qian - Xiang

The one who wins is powerful, and the one who wins himself is strong. -- Laozi, Chapter 33

Self-improvement, like honor, is a shoal-less island -- Napakura

The place to start is self-improvement, and the place to achieve is to be sincere and interest-free (qing-jin tassel)

How many things are in front of us? How many difficult things are in front of us? Since ancient times, men have been self-improvement (Tang - Liu Yuxi)

Men must be self-improvement (Tang - Li Chip)

When the Western Han Dynasty was in full swing, there was a great scholar named Kuang Heng. When he was a child, he loved reading very much, but his family was so poor that they couldn't afford to buy candles, so he couldn't read at night, and he was often worried about this. That night, Kuang Heng accidentally found that there seemed to be some bright light on the wall of his house. He got up and took a look, but it turned out that there was a crack in the wall, and the candles of his neighbors' houses were coming through the crack. Kuang Heng looked at it and immediately came up with a solution. He got a chisel and cut a small hole through the crack in the wall. Immediately, a candlelight came through, and Kuang Heng carefully read a book by this candlelight. Every night after that, Kuang Heng would lean against the wall and read by the light of his neighbor's candle. Because he was diligent and studious from childhood, Kuang Heng later became a knowledgeable scribe.

During the Warring States period, there was a man named Su Qin, who was also a famous politician. When he was young, because he was not very learned, he went to many places to work, but he was not taken seriously. When he returned home, his family was also very cold to him and looked down on him. This stimulated him a lot. Therefore, he made up his mind to study hard. He often read late into the night, very tired, often napping, straight to sleep. He also came up with a way to prepare an awl, a doze, use the awl to stab himself in the thigh. In this way, a sudden pain, so that they wake up, and then insist on reading. This is the story of Su Qin's "stabbing".

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Sun Jing who was a famous politician. When he was young, he was diligent and studious, and he often closed the door and kept reading alone. Every day, he read from morning to night, often wasting sleep and food. After reading for a long time, he was tired and did not rest. After a long time, tired to doze off. He was afraid that it would affect his reading and learning, so he came up with a special way. In ancient times, men had long hair. He then found a rope and tied one end securely to a beam. When he dozed off when he was tired of reading, his head was lowered, and the rope would hold his hair, which would pull his scalp sore, and he would immediately wake up and continue to read and study again.

This is the story of Sun Jing hanging from a beam.

In the U.S., the students of the overseas preparatory course witnessed the great achievements of science and technology in North America and Western Europe, and marveled at the rapid development of machines, trains, ships, and telecommunication manufacturing. Some students were pessimistic about China's future, but Zhan Tianyou said with firm conviction, "In the future, China will also have trains and ships." With the conviction of studying hard for the prosperity of the motherland, he studied hard and graduated with honors from New Haven in 1867. In May of the same year, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering at Yale University, specializing in railroad engineering. In the four years of the university, Zhan Tianyou study hard, with outstanding results in the graduation exams ranked first. 1881, in one hundred and twenty Chinese students returned to China, only two of the degree, Zhan Tianyou is one of them. After returning to China, Zhan Tianyou was enthusiastically prepared to contribute what he had learned to the cause of railroads in his country.

After graduating from high school, Hua Luogeng was forced to drop out of school because he couldn't afford the tuition. Returning to his hometown, he helped his father work while continuing to read and study. Soon after, he contracted typhoid fever and became critically ill. He stayed in bed for half a year, and when he recovered, he was left with a lifelong disability - the joints of his left leg were deformed and he was crippled. At that time, he was only 19 years old, in that lost, confused, almost desperate days, he remembered Sun Bin who wrote the art of war after both legs. "The ancients can still be disabled, I'm only 19 years old, there is no reason to give up, I want to use a sound mind, instead of unsound legs!" Young Hua Luogeng is so tenacious and fate. During the day, he dragged his sick legs, endured severe pain in the joints, working on crutches, and at night, he studied under the oil lamp until late at night. 1930, his paper was published in the journal Science, which alarmed Professor Xiong Qinglai, head of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. Later, Tsinghua University hired Hua Luogeng as an assistant. In the famous Tsinghua Park, Hua Luogeng worked as an assistant while listening to the mathematics department, and spent four years learning English, German and French, and published ten papers. When he was 25 years old, he was already a young scholar of international fame.