名言集锦
智慧与激情
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison Wisdom outweighs any wealth. – Sophocles Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. - Lao Tzu The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Sir Francis Bacon All human wisdom is summed up in two works: wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Nothing happens unless first a dream. - Carl Sandburg
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
The only limits are, as always, those of vision. - James Broughton Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. - Greek Proverb
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
-Norman Vincent Peale
青春与理想
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. – John Milton Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
Have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted. – R. Peters Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. – John Ruskin
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
– Chesterfield
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. – Scott Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. – Emerson To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. – Tennyson
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without a direction, there is
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no life.
– Leo Tolstoy
Aim for the highest. – Andrew Carnegie
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. – H. D. Thoreau
Ideas are like the stars—we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
– Carl Schurz
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. – Camus
A hero is a man who does what he can. – Romain Rolland
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. – Annette Funicello
失败与成功
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character. – Richard Nixon He who would leap high must take a long run. - Danish proverb
Nothing is particularly difficult if you divide it into small jobs. - Henry Ford
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. - Vince Lombardi
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do. - Martha Grimes
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has never failed somewhere … that man can not be great. - Herman Melville Learn to labor and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. - Leo Tolstoy
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating. - Sophocles
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. – Goethe
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in raising every time we fall. – O. Goldsmith
Life’s like a play; It’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. – Seneca You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sills Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. – Henry Ford
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any one thing.
– Abraham Lincoln
Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. – Montesquieu Chances favor the minds that are prepared. – Pasteur
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much must be wrested from a sure defeat.
– Thomas Lawrence
If one desires to succeed in everything, he must pay the price. – Emerson
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. - Charles F. Ketterling Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when 1
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they gave up. - Thomas Edison
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. - Sir Edmund Hillary
A man with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.
- Donald Kircher
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert The secret of success is consistency of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli
奋斗与成长
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Tennyson
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry Thoreau
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Hal Borland
I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaving how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott Seize the day. - Horace
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated. – E. Hamilton All the advantage isn’t in running fast, but rather in getting an early start. – Rabelais He that seeks finds. – Heywood
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. – John Vance Chency It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
– Frederick Philips
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. – Isaac Asimov It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
– W. S. Maugham
People do not lack strength; they lack will. – Hugo
He who has begun is half done. - Horace
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
– John Dryden
A little learning is a dangerous thing. – Pope
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. – Aristotle
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. --Francis Bacon
Rough is the road that leads to the heights of greatness. – Seneca
Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin They can, because they think they can. - Virgil
A man can do all things if he but wills them. - Leon Battista Alberti The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill
The mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. - Francis Bacon
The secret of success is consistency of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli It is never too late to be what you might have become. - George Eliot
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人性和人生
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. - Henrik Ibsen
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- Patricia Sampson
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, make a life.
- Arthur Ashe
If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights. - Victor Hugo
Better do a little well, than a great deal badly. - Socrates
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They are just braver five minutes longer.
– Ronald Reagon
He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself. – Francis Bacon What is a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. – Henrik Ibson To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – R. L. Stevenson
You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. – Fred Allen
Dream as if you’ll live forever…live as if you’ll die today. - James Dean
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. – H. D. Thoreau
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell
You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. – Mary Tyler Moore Every man is the master of his own fortune. – R. Steels
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. – Goethe
My philosophy of life is work. – Thomas Edison
He that can have patience, can have what he will. – Thomas Carlyle
A little of everything, and nothing at all. – Montaigne
Give me a place to stand and I will move the world. – Archimides
He who gains time gains everything. – Benjamin Disraeli
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other. - George Eliot Make the best of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. – Epictetus
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. - Lord Thomas Dewar If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. - Seneca
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
- Zachary Scott
We must become the change we want to see. - Mahatma Gandhi The mind is everything. What you think you become. - Buddha
A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Life is largely a matter of expectation. - Horace There are two ways of spreading light... to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Goethe
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