21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.

奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。

——C. Weizmann(爱尔兰总统魏茨曼)

22、It never will rain roses.When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.

天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。

——G. Eliot(英国小说家艾略特)

23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;

if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。

——Joshuas Reynolds(美国散文家雷诺兹)

24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance¹.

完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。

——Samuel Johnson(英国作家和评论家约翰逊)

25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.

天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。

——Mendeleyev(俄国化学家门捷列耶夫)

26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,

rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.

事情很少又根本做不成的;其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。

——(La Racheforcauld(法国作家罗切福考尔德)

27、Dare and the world always yields.

If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb².

大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服地。

——W.M Thackeray(英国小说家萨克雷)

28、All that you do, do with your might; t

hings done by halves are never done right.

做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。

——R.H. Stoddard(美国诗人斯托达德)

29、A man can fail many times,

but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。

——J.Burroughs(美国博物学家巴勒斯)

30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。

——Norman Douglas(英国作家道格拉斯)

31、The only limit to our realization³ of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。

——Franklin Roosevelt(美国总统罗斯福)

32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。

——Mark Twain(美国作家马克?吐温)

33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,

and the determination to attain⁴ it.

人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。

——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德国诗人、剧作家歌德)

34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。

——George Eliot(英国小说家艾略特)

35、If you doubt yourself,

then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。

——Ibsen(挪威剧作家易卜生)

36、Ideal is the beacon⁵. Without ideal,

there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.

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。 ——Leo Tolstory(俄国作家托尔斯泰)

37、Ideal are like the stars --- we never reach them ,

but like mariners⁶ , we chart our course by them.

理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，

但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。

——Carl Schurz(美国政治家舒尔茨)

38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.

人生应该树立目标，否则你的精神会白白浪费。

——R. Peters(美国法学家彼得斯)

39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。

——Mark Twain(马克 吐温)

40、Do not, for one repulse⁷,

give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.

不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。

——Willian Shakespeare(莎士比亚)

41、Between the ideal and the reality,

Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.

理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。

——Thomas Stearns Eliot(T.S.爱略特)

42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

只要有一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。

——J. Barrymore(巴里穆尔)