If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.想要美梦成真，就别睡懒觉。

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself,想要有收获，就得动手做。

In doing we I earn.行而知。

Indolence is about the worst habit a man can form.怠惰是最坏的习惯。

It is a good goose that drops ay.会下蛋的就是好鹅。

It is better to do we I I than to say well.说得头头是道，不如做得有条有理。

It is better to fight for good than to rail at the ill.与其怨天尤人，不如努力行善。

It is better to I earn a certain trade than to possess a large fortune.腰缠 万贯，不如一技在身。

It is better to start weaving your fishing nets than merely coveting¹ fish at the water.临渊羡鱼，不如退而结网。(covet:贪求，要想)。

It is better to wear out than to rust² out.与其铸掉，不如用坏。(常用在老人 身上，意指晚年努力工作也好过游手好闲)。

It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him,养虎容易驯虎难。

It is when there is a stampede, that a person with big buttocks knows that he carries a load,逃窜之时，跌倒的人才会发现自己负载过重。(stampede:跌倒; buttocks:摔倒)。

It takes time to build castles, //Rome was not built in a day.罗马不是一天造成的。

It’ s better to return home and make a net than long for fish on the edge of the pond.临渊羡鱼，不如退而结网。

Living at a river, one comes to know the nature of the fish therein; dwelling³ by a mountain, one I earns to recognize the language of the birds thereupon.近水知鱼性，近山识鸟音。