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

没有目标的一生注定碌碌无为，确定一个目标吧。——R.Peters

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

生活没有目标，就像航海没有罗盘。  ——John Ruskin

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

人犯错误最危险的一种就是忘记自己的目标是什么。   ——Paul Nitze

High expectations are the key to everything.

远大理想是开启万物的钥匙。  ——Sam Walton

What makes life dreary¹ is the want of motive².

缺少动力将让生活无聊乏味。  ——G.Eliot

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

如果你等待，发生的只是你变老。 ——Larry McMurtry

Try not to ome a man of success but rather try to ome a man of value.

不要试图去做个成功者，宁可做个有价值的人。   ——Einstein

Hope deserts us at no period of our existence.

在我们一生中，希望从来未遗弃过我们。  ——R.L.Stevenson

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

希望是顿美好的早餐，但却是顿糟糕的晚餐。——Francis Bacon

It is not by the y of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

白发并不能告诉你一个人心灵的年纪。   ——Edward B.Lytton

If you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

如果年轻时不培养知识，年老时将没有乘凉的树荫。——Chesterfield

Pross is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.

进步乃今日之努力，明日之保证。   ——Emerson

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a ret.

青年时卤莽；中年时奋斗；老年时后悔。  ——Benjamin Disraeli

Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out.

时间一点一滴地流逝，如同蜡烛慢慢燃尽。——Willian Yeats

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

光辉人生中忙碌的一个小时抵得过碌碌无为的一生。——Scott 一起呵英语站

When your will is ready, your feet are light.

当你的意志坚强了，你前进的脚步就轻快了。  ——Herbert

To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.

对于一只盲目航行的船而言，所有方向的风都是逆风。——Herbert

Our atest glory consists not in never falling, but in raising every time we fall.

人生的光荣不在于从不失败，而在于跌倒后每次都能站起来。——O.Goldsmith

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

并不是我的所有愿望都能实现，但我依然拥有希望。——Ovid

All the advantage isn't in running fast, but rather in getting an early start.

优势不在于跑得快，而在于起身早。 ——Rabelais

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

去奋斗，去追求，去发现，但不要放弃。  ——Tennyson

Ages are all equal, but genius is always above it's age.

一切时代都是平等的，但天才总是超越自己所处的时代。——William Blake

Unhappy, hope; happy, be cautions.

失意时，满怀希望；得意时，凡事审慎。  ——Robert Burton

Ideal is the beacon³. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without a direction, there is no life.

理想是灯塔。没有理想，就没有明确的航向；没有航向就没有生活。——Leo Tolstoy

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

一个目标过高和过低都会偏离靶心。   ——Thomas Fuller

Life's like a play: It's not the length, but the excellence⁴ of the acting⁵ that matters.

生活如一个剧本：重要的不是长度而是演出精彩与否。——Seneca

A man's not old, but mellow⁶, like good wine.

人不会老朽， 而是越来越有味道，就像美酒。  ——Stephen Phillips

The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.

世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你；笑着对它，它也笑着看你。   ——H.L.Samuel

Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

有一点我可以确信，如果我们就过去和现在展开一场争吵， 我们就会发现我们已失去将来。——W.Churchill

A at obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too at a happiness.

通往幸福的最大障碍就是对幸福苛求太多。  ——Fontenelle

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

精彩的人生未必完美。   ——Annette Funicello