·All things in their being are good for something.

· 天生我才必有用。

· Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.

· 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

· Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine

· 失败乃成功之母。

· For man is man and master of his fate.

· 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。

· The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates

· 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。——苏格拉底

· None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus

· 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。

· Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice¹ of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon

· 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运。——尼克松

· Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin

· 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。——罗斯金

· What makes life dreary² is the want of motive³. -- George Eliot

· 没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。——乔治 · 埃略特

· Towering genius disdains⁴ a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.-- 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。

· There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac

· 没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。——巴尔扎克

· The good seaman⁵ is known in bad weather.

· 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。

· Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman

· 不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。——纽曼

· Gods determine what you‘re going to be. -- Julius Erving

· 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。——欧文

· An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

· 生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。-- 史蒂文森

· While there is life there is hope.

· 一息若存，希望不灭。——英国谚语

· Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. 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

· You have to believe in yourself. That‘s the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin

· 人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。——卓别林

· Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily⁶ and indefatigably⁷.

· 不管追求什么目标，都应坚持不懈。

· We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King

· 我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。——马丁 · 路德 · 金

· Energy and persistence⁸ conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin

· 能量加毅力可以征服一切。——富兰克林

· Nothing seek, nothing find.

· 无所求则无所获。

· Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle

· 生命不止，奋斗不息。——卡莱尔

· A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.

· 千里之行，始于足下。

· Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished⁹. -- Swetchine

· 只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。——斯威特切尼

· The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw

· 在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机会，他们便自己创造机会。——萧伯纳

· A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison

· 强者能同命运的风暴抗争。——爱迪生

· He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe

· 谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。——歌德

· Victory won‘t come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore

· 胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。——穆尔

· Man struggles upwards¹⁰; water flows downwards¹¹.

· 人往高处走，水往低处流。

· Man errs¹² as long as he strives. -- Goethe

· 失误是进取的代价。——歌德