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 chalice 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 dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 · 埃略特

Towering genius disdains 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 seaman 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, steadily and indefatigably.
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 persistence 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 vanquished. -- 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 upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。

Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe
失误是进取的代价。 -- 歌德

The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. -- Henry David Thoreau
尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。 -- 梭罗

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.   -- J. Burroughs
一个人可以失败很多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。   -- 巴勒斯

In time of prosperity,friends will be plenty ,In time of adversity,not one amongst twenty.
得势时朋友盈门，失势时不见一人,富在深山有远亲，穷在闹市无人问

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst
抱最好的希望 做最坏的大算

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is
贫穷非耻辱 耻贫乃耻

The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.  -- H.Black
生活的地平线是随着心灵的开阔而变得宽广的。  -- 布莱克

If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.  -- Hesiod
伟大的事业是通过不懈努力，一砖一瓦堆起来的。   -- 赫西奥德

The drop of rain makes a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by of falling.  -- Latimer
雨滴穿石，不是靠蛮力，而是靠持之以恒。  -- 拉蒂默

Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, adversity is not without comforts and hopes.  -- Bacon
幸运中并非不搀杂各种担心与烦恼，而厄运中也并非不存在欣慰与期望。   -- 培根

On life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
生活在顽强战斗中，只有每天不屈不挠奋勇向前的人才能取得胜利。

All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.  -- R.H.Sloddard
做一切事情都应尽力而为，不可半途而废。  -- 斯托达德

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。知道后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。

For all pain helps to make us rise, however much we may hate it at the time.
一切痛苦都有助于我们奋发向上，不论我们当时是多么憎恨它。

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem will be presented to every generation in different forms.
人生是一种考验，而这个世界就是考场。每一代都要面对一些问题 -- 可能是相同的问题 -- 只不过问题的形式不同。

Wish you an endless view to cheer your eyes, then one more story mount and higher rise.
欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
黎明之前最黑暗。

No road of flowers lead to glory.
没有一条通往光荣的道路是铺满鲜花的。

Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind on it.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。

Good courage breaks bad luck.
勇气可以改变厄运。

Fortune shows her power when there is no wise preparation for resisting her.
没有向命运抗争的明智准备，命运便会显示其威力。

Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.  -- Shakespeare
不要因为一次挫折就放弃你原来决心要达到的目标。   -- 莎士比亚

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
大业成于百折不挠，不论力量大小。

Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.  -- J. Anderson
只要坚韧不拔，失败十九次之后，第二十次就会成功。  -- 安德森

Today's opportunity erase yesterday's failures.  -- Gene Brown
今日的机遇可抹去昨日的失败。  -- 吉恩 · 布朗

You have to pay the price but if you do you can only win.  -- Frank Leahy
为了成功，你必须付出代价。如果你付出了代价，你就会成功。   -- 莱希

It's better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all.  -- A.H.Clough
奋战过而失败，强于根本未战。  -- 克拉夫

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.  -- Lincoln
记住，当人生之路陡峭之时，要保持沉着。  -- 林肯

Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man.  --Fredrich Edwin Smith Birkenhead
优雅地迎接成功，勇敢地面对挫折。 -- 伯肯黑德

A man can succeed at almost anything for  which he was unlimited enthusiasm.  -- C. M. Schwal
只要有无限的热情，一个人几乎可以在任何事情上取得成功。-- 施瓦希

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. -- A. Gide
人只有鼓起勇气，告别海岸，才能发现新的海洋。 -- 纪德

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. -- Goethe
人生最重要的是树立一个远大的目标，并下定决心去实现它。 -- 歌德

Knowledge is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.  -- Emerson
知识是一座城堡，每个人都应为它增砖添瓦。-- 爱默生

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and more than all, must be prayed for.  -- Thomas Arnold
真知如同珍宝，不是轻易获得的，必须学习、钻研、思考，最重要的是必须有强烈的求知欲。 -- 托马斯 · 阿诺德

Knowledge comes from experience alone.
知识来自实践。

Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
知识使人谦虚，无知使人骄傲。

Knowledge is power.  -- Bacon
知识就是力量。  -- 培根

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
知识是宝库，而实践是开启宝库的钥匙。

Knowledge is the food of the soul.  -- Plato
知识是心灵的食粮。  -- 柏拉图

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.  -- Daniel Webster
知识的确是天空中硕大无比的太阳。它的光辉撒下生命和力量。   -- 韦伯斯特

Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
有知识而无时间，只算半个能人。

Learning is the eye of the mind.
学问是心灵的眼睛。

Learn young, learn fair.
学习趁年少，而且要学好。

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
孩提时代学到的东西，至死也不会忘却。

Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
前人犯错，后人戒。

Learn to creep before you leap.
先学爬，后学跳。（循序渐进）

there is no royal road to learning.
学问之道无捷径。

Without learning, without eyes.
没有学识就是盲人。

He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit.
学习根苦果甜。

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to dropback.
学习如逆水行舟，不进则退。

Learning without thought is useless; thought without learning is dangerous.
学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。

There is no end to learning.
学无止境。

Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.  -- William Shakespeare
无知乃是罪恶，知识乃是我们借以飞向天堂的翅膀。   -- 莎士比亚

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
掩盖无知要比学到知识更难。

Not ignorance, but the ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
不是无知本身，而是对无知的无知，才是知识的死亡。

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
最可怕的事莫过于无知而行动。

Wisdom is more precious than wealth.
智慧比财富更宝贵。

The wise man is always a good listener.
智者善听人言。

Wise men are silent; fools talk.
蠢人多话，智者寡言。

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.  -- Bacon
读书使人充实，讨论使人机敏，写作使人严谨。  --培根

Reading enriches the mind.
开卷有益。

He that can read an meditate will not find his evenings long or life tedious.
会读书思索的人不会感到长夜无聊或生活乏味。

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.  -- Descartes
所有的好书，读起来就如同和过去世界上最杰出的人谈话。   -- 笛卡尔

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
在科学上没有平坦大道，只有不畏劳苦沿着陡峭山路攀登的人，才有希望达到光辉的顶点。

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
书籍和朋友，在好不在多。

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.  --L.W.Akott
好书使人开卷有所求，闭卷有所获。  -- 奥尔科特

There is no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence.
世间无所谓天才，它仅是刻苦加勤奋。