Self-improvement celebrity case composition material 1, Ma Yun
Ma Yun, the founder of Alibaba from 65438 to 0999, never gave up his dream.
He once wanted to enter a key primary school, but failed; I also failed in key middle schools; It took three years to enter the university; I missed Harvard University and didn't succeed. However, he has perseverance and courage. As the saying goes, "the blade comes from sharpening, and the plum blossom is bitter and cold." Through his own efforts, he finally succeeded.
He said: dreams, down-to-earth, tears are closely related.
2.socrates
Once in class, Socrates gave his disciples an assignment to do one thing and shake hands a hundred times a day. After a week, he asked how many people still insisted on doing it, and 90% people insisted on doing it.
A month later, he asked again, now there is only half left.
A year later, he asked again, there is only one person who persists now, and that person is Plato.
1. Although the pear has no owner, I have a owner at the turn of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the world is in chaos. One day, scholar Xu Heng went out. The weather is hot and thirsty. There happened to be a pear tree by the roadside. Pedestrians went to pick pears, but Xu Heng was unmoved. Someone asked, "Why not pick pears to quench your thirst?" He replied, "pears are not your own. How can you pick them?" The man laughed at his pedantry: "The world is such a mess. Who cares whose pear this is! " Xu Heng primly said, "Although pears have no owners, their hearts have owners."
2. Yu Chenglong, an upright official in Yu Chenglong, who is known as "the first upright official in the world", lived a frugal life, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River nicknamed him "dried vegetables". During his tenure as governor of Liangjiang, a magistrate gave him a "Mid-Autumn Festival gift", which he sternly refused and sent specially (no feeding). In order to warn himself and encourage his subordinates, Yu Chenglong hung a couplet in the lobby: "The gains and losses are all given by the imperial court. If you invade Sri Lanka, who will put you in chains; -half a grain of silk is nothing more than the ointment of ordinary people, you don't cherish it. How do you know that men are thieves and women are prostitutes? " Therefore, he has been an official for decades and really achieved "self-restraint." He swore that he would not be supported by his subordinates. "