Tao Thay Shang Men - English

WANTS
Take a little bit, and you will have plenty more.  Wanting overly, then you will be obsessed
There is no other greater disaster than the unsatisfied wants.

HUMBLE
Step back first, if you want to step ahead.
Try to give first, if you would like to take.
Make humble yourself and lowering yourself under others first, if you want to be on the top of them.
When you want to become a leader then you must put their interests first over yours. Then they will support you without feeling being burdened on their shoulder by your weight.

The gentleness
When one is still alive, the body is soft and elastic.
When one is dead, the body will be stiff and hard.
When the plants still grow, they are weak and soft.
When they died, they become dried and fragile.
Therefore, hardness and stiffness are the way to die.  Softness and Flexibility are the way to live.

Egoism
When you put yourself after other people, then you will find that you are the first.
If you don’t just think of yourself, then you will be able to enjoy life.
If you can stop becoming egoist then your personal interest will be materialized. The more you do for other people, the more you will get for yourself.
The more you give, the richer you will be.

The Conviction
In facing the difficulties, solve the easier one.  In reaching a big objective, firstly start with the smaller one.  It is easy to hold something when stable.  It is easy to make plan before anything happened.
The wisdom

A wise man doesn’t have a permanent judgment. He considers the other people wish as his own. He agrees to the good people, as well as the bad people. Then all of them are becoming good. He trusts the faithful people, as well as the unfaithful people. Then all of them are becoming the faithful ones.
For a wise man, there isn’t any hopeless person, because he knows how to educate them, and there isn’t any useless thing, because he knows how to use it.

A big tree grows from a small seed.
A tall tower is built from the flat land. Thousand miles of journey is started with the first step. 
Face the problem when it is still easy to handle.
Take the precaution before the problems arise. 
Everything will become easier to fail when it is near the finish stage.  However, if you are careful enough in the early stage, the failure can be avoided.