On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
 　
世上唯有人最伟大；人中唯有头脑最重要。
  ——A.Hamilton 

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
 　
笑，这世界与你同笑；哭，独自去哭吧。
  ——E.W.Wilcox

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death—ourselves
 　
如果我们不能忍受独自一人，这意味着我们不能好好珍惜我们从生到死的唯一伙伴—我们自己。——Eda LeShan

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
 　
悲观主义者抱怨有风，乐观主义者期待变天，现实主义者调整船帆。
——William Arthur Ward

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
 　
上帝就像一面镜子。镜子从不变化，但每个照镜子的人都会看到不同的东西。
  ——Rabbi Harold Kushner

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit—and man is his own gardener.
 　
好思想结好果实，坏思想结坏果实—人可以做自己的园丁。——John Sculley

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
 　
如果你赢不了，就帮你前面那个破记录吧。
  ——Jan McKeithen

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
 　
我们知道的最大的喜悦是偷偷地做件好事，而被人偶然发现。——Charles Lamb

Remember the best love is to love others unconditionally rather than make demands on them. 
记住：最好的爱存在于对别人的爱胜于对别人的索求之上。

There is no royal road to learning.
 　
学无坦途。——Anthony Trollope 

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
 　
失败了你或许会失望，但如果不去试，你就死定了。——Beverly Sills

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
 　
成功没有秘诀。它是仔细准备，努力工作，从失败中吸取教训的结果。
   ——Gen.Colin L.Powell

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any one thing.
 　
永远记住：决心成功比任何一件事都重要。
    ——Abraham Lincoln

Chances favor the minds that are prepared.
 　
机遇总是降临到时刻做好准备的人身上。
   ——Pasteur

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
 　
成功的奥秘在于坚持不懈地奔向目标。
    ——Benjamin Disraeli

You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.
 　
如果你是懦夫，你是自己最大的敌人；如果你是勇敢的人，你是自己最好的朋友。
  ——Frank

Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.
 　
给我一个支点，我将移动地球。
   ——Archimides

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
 　
天才等于百分之一的灵感加百分之九十九的汗水。——Thomas Edison

At twenty years of age , the will reigns; at thirty , the wit ; and at forty , the judgment .(Benjamin Franklin ,American president)
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。(美国总统 富
兰克林 . B.)
Do you love life ? Then do not squander time ; for that's the stuffs 

life is made of .(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
你热爱生命吗？那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。(美国总统 富兰

克林. B.)

Fish and visitors smell three days .( Franklin Benjamin , American

president )
鱼放三天发臭，客住三天讨嫌。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.)

Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time ; a man of
talent tries to use it . (Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher )
普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。(德国哲学家 叔本华.
A. )

To choose time is to save time .( Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
合理安排时间就是节约时间 。( 英国哲学家 培根. F.)

Weep no more , no sigh , nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone.

(John Fletcher , British dramatist )
别哭泣，别叹息，别呻吟；悲伤唤不回流逝的时光。(英国剧作家 弗莱沏. J.)

Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend .
(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄

重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。( 英国哲学家 培根. F.)

If you wish to succeed , you should use persistence as your good friend , experience as your reference , prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. (Thomas Edison , American inventor )
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。
(美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily . (Friedrich Schiller , German Dramatist and poet).
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举地完成困难的事。(德国剧作
家、诗人 席勒. F.)

Success covers a multitude of blunders .(George Bernard Shaw ,British Dramatist)
成功由大量的失望铸就。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)

I have nothing to offer but blood , toil tears and sweat . (Winston Churchill, British Politician)
我所能奉献的没有其它，只有热血、辛劳、眼泪与汗水。(英国政治家 丘吉尔 .
W.)

Genius only means hard-working all one's life .( Mendeleyer , Russian Chemist)
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。 (俄国化学家 门捷列耶夫)

I have nothing to offer but blood , toil tears and sweat . (Winston Churchill, British Politician)
我所能奉献的没有其它，只有热血、辛劳、眼泪与汗水。(英国政治家 丘吉尔 .
W.)

Man errs so long as he strives. (Johan Wolfgang Goethe , German poet and dramatist)
人只要奋斗就会犯错误。 (德国诗人、剧作家 歌德. J. W.)

My fellow Americans , ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world ; ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man . (John Kennedy , American President )
美国同胞们，不要问国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你们能为国家做些什么。全
世界的公民们，不要问美国将为你们做些什么，而要问我们共同能为人类的自由
做些什么。 (美国总统 肯尼迪. J.)
 

We cannot always build the future for our youth , but we can build our youth for the future . (Franklin Roosevelt , American president )
我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。
(美国总统 罗斯福. F.)

It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do .(Winston Churchill , British prime minister)
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。 (美国首相 丘吉尔. W.)

No country , however rich , can afford the waste of its human resource(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)
任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。(美国总统 罗斯富. F.)

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F .)

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds (MarkTwain ,American writer)具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 (美国作家 马克·吐温)

The important thing in life is to have a great aim , and the determination to attain it. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German Poet and dramatist)
人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。(德国诗人、戏剧家
歌德 . J . M .)

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. Alexander Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie, French Writer)
生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。 (法国作家 大仲马. A.)

If you would go up high , then use your own legs ! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads . (F. W . Nietzsche , German Philosopher)
如果你想走到高处，就要使用自己的两条腿！不要让别人把你抬到高处；不要坐在别人的背上和头上。(德国哲学家 尼采. F. W.)

If winter comes , can spring be far behind ?( P. B. Shelley , British poet )
冬天来了，春天还会远吗？( 英国诗人, 雪莱. P. B.)

Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal , there is no secure direction ; without direction , there is no life .( Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer)
理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。 (俄国作家 托尔斯泰. L .)

Do not , for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to effect .(William Shakespeare , British dramatist)
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚.W.)

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved .(Victor Hugo , French novelist )
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。( 法国小说家 雨果. V .)

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether
you are happy or not . (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳 . G .)

A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it ; it would be hell on
earth .(G. Bernard Shaw ,British dramatist )
终身幸福！这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。(英国剧作家 肖

伯纳. G.)

Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin
Franklin ,
American president)
懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.)

A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
豁达者长寿。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)

Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。

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

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。

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

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

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

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 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

If a man empties his purse into his head , no man can take it away from him , an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )
倾已所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)

The empty vessels make the greatest sound. (William Shakespeare , British dramatist )满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)

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。

And gladly would learn , and gladly teach .( Chaucer , British poet)
勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人, 乔叟)

Better be unborn than untaught , for ignorance is the root of misfortune
.(Plato , Ancient Greek philosopher)
与其不受教育,不如不生,因为无知是不幸的根源.(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)