Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin
能量加毅力可以征服一切。 -- 富兰克林 Deliberate before you begin, then execute with vigor. --Sallust 三思而后行,然后就全力投入行动。 -- 索卢斯特 Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. —— John Ruskin 人生十分短促,宁静的时间又不多; 我们不应该浪费宝贵的时间 去读毫无价值的书。 —— 约翰·拉斯金 The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new ; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them . (Franklin Roosevelt , American President ) 人经过努力可以改变世界,这种努力可以使人类达到新的、更美好的境界。没有人仅凭闭目、不看社会现实就能割断自己与社会的联系。他必须敏感,随时准备接受新鲜事物;他必须有勇气与能力去面对新的事实,解决新问题。(美国总统 罗斯福. F.) Better be unborn than untaught , for ignorance is the root of misfortune .(Plato , Ancient Greek philosopher) Human desires are not always being fulfiled,but determined people will achieve their ambitions. Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. --John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. --Erich Fromm The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.( Mark Twain ) Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long. ( Bernard Shaw ) The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse. ( J. Renard ) It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. ( G. Eliot ) The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it.( W. James ) We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ( Martin Luther King, Jr.) The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. --Issac Asimoy A life without a purpose is a ship without s rudder. Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it. -- William Somerset Maugham All things are difficult before they are easy. Business before pleasure. Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. Hope is life and life is hope. Where there is life,there is hope. Man's dearest possession is life, and it is given to him to live but once. He must live so as to feel no torturing regrets for years without purpose, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past---Ostorovsky The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. —— Thomas Hardy The more mistakes you make, the more progress you will make. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. A man may learn wit every day. A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- J. Burroughs Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. --John Steinbeck The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. --Bertrand Russell If you can make it here,you make it anywhere. Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. —— Blaise Pascal It is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess. -- Moliere Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored. --Abraham Lincoln All great truths are obvious truths. But no all obvcious truths are great truths. —— A. Huxley Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. --Robert Frost Love is an active power in man, a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him ovrecome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits to be himself, to retain his integrity. --Erich Fromn Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. --Emerson Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. --John Dryden The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control thoughts. --Charles Darwin In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. --William Osler The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who has made up his mind to win will never say " Impossible".( Napoleon ) Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. ( W. M. Thackeray ) No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else. ( C. Dickens ) While there is one untrodden tractFor intellect or men are free to think and act,Life is worth living. ( A. Austin ) Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win? ( Lane Kirkland ) Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. ( R. Peters ) |
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