Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. ——George Washington 不要承担你完成不了的事，但一定要信守诺言。
——乔治·华盛顿
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
——Benjamin Franklin. 不要出卖美德以换取财富，也不要用自由交换权力。
——本杰明·富兰克林
I would like to live to study,and not study to live.
——Francis Bacon
我愿意为了学习而活着，不愿意为了活着而学习。
—— 培根
Conscience is an instinct to judge ourselves in the light of moral laws. It is not a mere faculty; it is an instinct.
——Immanuel Kant 良知是一种依靠道德准则来批判自己的本能。它不只是一种能力，还是一种本能.
——康德
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ——Abraham 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。
——林肯
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
—— John Dryden 错误就像浮在水面的稻草；要想寻找珍珠就得潜到他的下面。
—— 约翰·德莱顿
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
—— Plato
体育运动如果是出于强迫，不会有害于身体，但在强迫之下获得的知识，不能保留在头脑中。 —— 柏拉图
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
—— Helen Hayes 你从父母那里学到爱，学到笑，学到怎样走路。可是一打开书本，你会发现你有了翅膀。
—— 海斯
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. —— William Osler
在科学上，功劳归于使全世界信服的人，而不归于首先有这种想法的人。
—— 威廉·奥斯勒
There is only one success--- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
—— Morley
只有一种成功，那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生。
—— 莫利
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you
—— Thomas Jefferson 不要买虽然便宜但你并不需要的东西；因为它对你而言是非常昂贵的。
—— 托马斯·杰弗逊
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder a part of experience. —— Francis Bacon
旅行对青年人而言是一种教育；对老年人来说则是一种经历。
—— 培根
There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures provided we will but take it as a joke when we find it.
—— Washington Irving 人世间的任何境遇都有其优点和乐趣，只要我们愿意接受现实。
—— 华盛顿·欧文
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control thoughts.
—— Charles Darwin
道德修养有可能达到的最高境界是认识到我们应该控制自己的思想。
—— 达尔文
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
—— Benjamin Franklin 沉默并不是智慧的标志，但唠叨永远是一项蠢行。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—— John Steinbeck 主意就象野兔，你若有一对，学会怎样驯养它们，你很快就会有一打。
—— 约翰·斯坦贝克
The time of life is short, to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long.
—— William Shakespeare 人生的时间很短促，如果把那短促的人生浪掷虚度，那就太长了。
—— 莎士比亚
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent.
—— Samuel Johnson 人生不长，切不可花费太多的时间去考虑应该怎样度过这一辈子。
—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling
—— Bernard Shaw
懒惰就象一把锁，锁住了知识的仓库，使你的智力便得匮乏。
—— 萧伯纳
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
—— Abraham Lincoln
永远记住：你自己的取得成功的决心比什么都重要。
—— 林肯
Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.
——Richter
欢乐是我们的双翼， 悲痛是我们的动力。
——里克特
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
—— Abraham Lincoln 永远记住：你自己的取得成功的决心比什么都重要。
—— 林肯
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
——Henry Ford
做好准备是成功的首要秘诀。
——亨利·福特
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing
—— Abraham Lincoln
永远记住：你自己的取得成功的决心比什么都重要。
—— 林肯
Gunius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.
——Goethe
平静中产生天才，生活激流中创造个性。
——歌德
The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can
——Dave Weinbaum 从获胜中能得到的最重要的一点是你能获胜
——戴夫·温鲍姆
Talent is the gift plus the passion--a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
——Neil Simon
才能是天分加激情—强烈的成功愿望世界上任何力量都无法阻挡。
——尼尔·西蒙
You have to be first, best or different.
—— Loretta Lynn
你必须是第一， 或者最好的， 或者与众不同。
——洛莱特·林恩
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
—— Richard Peters
人生应有目标，否则你的努力将成徒劳。
——理查·比德斯
Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it. —— William Somerset Maugham 不论什么时候，只要你有一个目标，就得牺牲一定的自由去实现它。
——W·S·毛姆
If your ship doesn't come in , swim out to it!
—— Jonathan Winters
如果你的船不驶进来，那你就朝它游过去吧！
——J·温特斯
The very reputation of being strong-willed, plucky, and indefatigable is of priceless value.
—— Charles Robert Darwin 意志坚强、胆量过人和不屈不挠的名声，乃是一种无价之宝。
—— 达尔文
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the down is still dark.
——R. Tagore 信念是黎明前天尚黑时感到光明的鸟。
——泰戈尔
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
——Samuel Johnson 伟大工作的完成，不是凭力量，而是凭着坚持不懈。
——塞缪尔·约翰逊
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
——Henrik Ibsen
如果你怀疑自己，那么你的确站在不稳的地方。
——H·易卜生
We alwags have time enough, if we will but use it alright.
——Wolfgang Von Goethe 只要我们能善用时间，就永远不愁时间不够用。
——歌德
There are two motives for reading a book: one that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
——Bertrand Russell
读书有两种动机：一是从中获得乐趣；另一种则是可以向人夸耀。
——罗素
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
——Moliere
任何人都不能免于诽谤。最好的方法是不理会，过着清白的生活，让人们去说好了。
——莫里哀
Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
——Thomas Heywood
为最坏的情况做准备，那么最好的情况也就会来临了。
——托马斯·海伍德
Politeness is like an air cushion: there may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.
——Samuel Johnson 礼貌就象是一只气垫：里面可能什么都没有，但却能奇妙地减轻颠簸。
——塞缪尔·约翰逊
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
——David Frost 如果你想成功，不要去刻意地追求成功。只要你干自己热爱的工作并相信它，成功就自然会到来。 ——弗罗斯特
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
——John Locke 阅读只是用堆积的知识来充实大脑；只有思考才能使我们读过的东西真正成为自己的。
——约翰·洛克
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
——Charles Chaplin 你必须要相信你自己。这是成功的秘诀。
——查尔斯·卓别林
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ——Albert 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
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
——Thomas Carlyle 一切工作都好象是播下的种子；它生长开花结籽，然后又重新播种。
——托马斯·卡莱尔
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
——Elbert Hubbard 为明天所做的最好的准备工作就是把今天的工作做好。
——E·哈伯德
We have no right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without prod- ucing it.
——G. B. Shaw
如果我们不能创造幸福，我们就没有权利去享受幸福；正如我们如果不能创造财富；也就没有权利去享用财富一样。
——萧伯纳
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
——Pope
心胸狭窄的人就象细口瓶，里面装的东西越少，倒出时的噪音也就越大。
——蒲伯
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
——Bertrand Russell 美好的生活是一种由爱所激励和由知识所指导的生活。
——罗素
All men have happiness as their object: There is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
——Blaise Pascal
所有的人都以快乐幸福作为他们的目的：没有例外。不论他们所使用的方法是如何不同，大家都在朝着这同一个目标前进。
—— 帕斯卡
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two.
——Amy Lowell 生活是一张白纸，每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话。
——洛威尔
Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
——O. Henry
生活是美好的，而你也必须要学会享用美好的生活。
——欧·亨利
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
——Thomas Carlyle
生活的悲剧不在于人们受多少苦，而在于人们没有得到什么。
——托马斯·卡莱尔
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. ——Francis Bacon
对某些人而言，财富给他们带来的只是让他们为失去财富而担忧。
——培根
There can be no honor in a sure success, but much must be wrested from a sure defeat.
——Thomas Lawrence 轻易获得的成功中也许并不能得到荣誉，但从真正的失败中却能得到许多东西。
——托马斯·劳伦斯
If time being of things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
——Benjamin Franklin 如果时间是最宝贵的东西那么浪费时间就是最大的浪费。
——本杰明·富兰克林
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
——Francis Bacon 一个人如果从肯定入手，必定以疑问而告终；如果他乐于从疑问入手， 则必定以肯定告终。 ——培根
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
——Ralph Waldo Emerson 最深的思想或感情就如同深睡的矿藏，在等待着同样深沉的头脑与心灵去发现和开采。
——爱默生
To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation.
——Socrates 注重智慧、真理和灵魂的进步远比追求金钱、荣誉和名胜要好得多。
——苏格拉底