A little boy of about a week old, held by his young mother's little hand, came to the front of the square in the park, and was about to go up a dozen steps. But the little boy broke away from his mother's hand, he wanted to climb up by himself. He climbed upward with his chubby little hands, and his mother had no intention of carrying him up. When he climbed two steps, he felt the steps were very high, and looked back at his mother, who did not reach out to help him, but only eyes full of love and encouragement. The little boy looked up again, he gave up the idea of letting his mom carry him, and climbed up carefully on his hands and knees. He climbed very hard, his little butt lifted up high, his little face was red with exhaustion, his doll clothes were covered with dirt, and his hands were dirty, but he finally climbed up. The young mother then went up to her son and patted the dirt on his body, and gave him a kiss on his red face.
This little boy was Abraham Lincoln, who later became the 16th president of the United States. His mother was Nancy Hanks.
Lincoln's father was a farmer and the family was extremely poor. Lincoln received formal education off and on for less than a year combined. But from an early age, Lincoln developed a love of knowledge, the pursuit of learning, kindness and integrity and the good qualities of defying the odds. He could not afford to buy paper and pens, so he used charcoal to write on wooden boards and used small sticks to practice writing on the ground. He seized all the time he could to read and study and to practice his speeches. Lincoln was unemployed, worked as a laborer, and became a lawyer. From the age of 29, he began to run for Congress and the presidency, trying 11 times and failing 9 times. At the age of 51, he finally reached the White House and achieved a brilliant performance, which Marx called "one of the heroes of the world". His mother, Nancy, died when Lincoln was nine years old. But there is no doubt that she raised Lincoln with a strong and great mother's love, and made him brave and determined to go into the future.
Warren graduated from high school and was forced to drop out of school because he couldn't afford the tuition. Back to his hometown, one side to help his father work, one side to continue to read tenaciously self-education. 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 math department, and spent four years learning English, German and French, and published ten papers. By the time he was 25, he was a young scholar of international renown.
When encountering difficulties and setbacks, self-esteem and self-confidence of the people, to be able to rise up, self-improvement, conquering setbacks and failures, in setbacks and failures to achieve success. And people who lose self-esteem, when encountering difficulties and setbacks, often give up on themselves and belittle themselves. People who lack self-confidence, when encountering difficulties and setbacks, the first thing that comes to mind is that they can't make it, thus giving up their efforts to struggle. So there is no self-esteem and self-confidence, it is impossible to succeed in the cause.
Seiji Ozawa is a world famous symphony conductor. In the final of the World Outstanding Conductor Competition, he conducted the performance according to the score given by the jury, and keenly noticed the discordant sound. At first, he thought that the orchestra had made a mistake, so he stopped and played again, but it was still not right. He thought there was something wrong with the score. At this point, the composers and authorities present at the jury insisted that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the score and that he was wrong. In the face of a large group of music masters and authorities, he pondered over the matter and finally categorically said aloud, "No! The score must be wrong!" As soon as the words left his mouth, the judges at the judges' table immediately stood up and applauded, congratulating him on winning the competition.
Originally, this was an elaborate "trap" designed by the judges to test the conductor's ability to stand up for what he believes is right when he finds a mistake in the score and is "denied" by the authorities. The first two finalists were eliminated for agreeing with the authorities, even though they had also discovered errors. Seiji Ozawa, on the other hand, won the World Conductor's Championship for his confidence.
On one occasion Beethoven and Goethe were engaged in a spirited narrative when the Empress and Crown Prince of Germany walked past them and greeted them affectionately, doffing their hats. Beethoven but put his head, seems to have seen nothing, Goethe was flattered, hastily shaking the dust on the body, straighten the collar, take off his hat in hand, welcome to the Empress they bend over to salute. See Goethe this kind of groveling appearance, Beethoven's previous mind in the poet's image of the tall suddenly fell apart.
2. Han Xin liked to study military affairs, and usually wore a long sword. One day, a group of small ruffians came to challenge him again, and one of them said to him: "You carry a sword with you all the time, but I don't see you using it. If you're really capable, kill me with your sword. If you're just a show-off and can't use your sword, you can crawl between my legs." Han Xin showed the ability of a great man to bend and bend, and bent down and crawled between the man's legs. The ignorant billets thought that Han Xin was
cowardly and timid, and walked away in self-righteousness.
You can choose two of them, I hope it will help you, thank you.