• All things in their being are good for something. • 天生我才必有用。 • Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. • 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。 • Failure is the mother of success. -- Thomas Paine • 失败乃成功之母。 • For man is man and master of his fate. • 人就是人,是自己命运的主人。 • The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates • 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底 • None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -- Erasmus • 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人,才配享受生活的自由。 • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon • 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒,而是机会之杯。因此,让我们毫无畏惧,满心愉 悦地把握命运。-- 尼克松 • Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin • 生活没有目标,犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金 • What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot • 没有了目的,生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 • 埃略特 • Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Lincoln • 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。 • There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. - --- Balzac • 没有伟大的意志力,便没有雄才大略。 -- 巴尔扎克 • The good seaman is known in bad weather. • 惊涛骇浪,方显英雄本色。 • Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman • 不要害怕你的生活将要结束,应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。 -- 纽曼 • Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving • 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。 -- 欧文 • An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson • 生活的目标,是唯一值得寻找的财富。-- 史蒂文森 • While there is life there is hope. • 一息若存,希望不灭。 -- 英国谚语 • Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein • 不要为成功而努力,要为做一个有价值的人而努力。 -- 爱因斯坦 • You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin • 人必须有自信,这是成功的秘密。 -- 卓别林 • Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably. • 不管追求什么目标,都应坚持不懈。 • We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King • 我们必须接受失望,因为它是有限的,但千万不可失去希望,因为它是无穷的。 -- 马丁 • 路德 • 金 • Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin • 能量加毅力可以征服一切。 -- 富兰克林 • Nothing seek, nothing find. • 无所求则无所获。 • Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle • 生命不止,奋斗不息。 -- 卡莱尔 • A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step. • 千里之行,始于足下。 • Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. -- Swetchine • 只有强者才懂得斗争;弱者甚至失败都不够资格,而是生来就是被征服的。 --斯威特切尼 • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw • 在这个世界上取得成就的人,都努力去寻找他们想要的机会,如果找不到机会, 他们便自己创造机会。 -- 萧伯纳 • A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison • 强者能同命运的风暴抗争。 -- 爱迪生 • He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe • 谁把握机遇,谁就心想事成。 -- 歌德 • Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore • 胜利是不会向我们走来的,我必须自己走向胜利。 -- 穆尔 • Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards. • 人往高处走,水往低处流。 • Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe • 失误是进取的代价。 -- 歌德 • The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. -- Henry David Thoreau • 尽管失败和挫折等待着人们,一次次地夺走青春的容颜,但却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严,这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。 -- 梭罗 • A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- J. Burroughs • 一个人可以失败很多次,但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人,他还不是一个失败者。 -- 巴勒斯