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Useful Quotations

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Adversity   逆境
 
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                     Robert Collier

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
                                                                              

                                                                                                                     Albert Einstein

Perseverance   坚持
 

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.
                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling...
but in rising every time we fall.
                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                    Confucius 孔子

 

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                    Mother Teresa

 

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                     Henry Ford

 

Never, never, never, never give up.
                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                     Winston Churchill

 

Hard Work And Success    努力与成功

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
                               

                                                                                                                      Ann Landers


Those who aim at great deeds must suffer greatly.
                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                      Crassus


There is no substitute for hard work.
                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                      Thomas Edison


The strongest of all warriors are these two- Time and Patience.
                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                      Leo Tolstoi


I’m a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work...
the more I have of it.
                                                                                                                      Thomas Jefferson


Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                      Robert Collier


Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                      Ray A. Croc

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                     Henry Ford

Experience    经验

You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it...
than by consulting all the maps in the world.

 

动机与结果

Winning isn’t everything... but wanting to win is.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                     Vince Lombardi


We choose to go to the moon and other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                      John F. Kennedy


The strong do what they will.  The weak do what they must.

 

                                                                                                                      Thucydides
                                                                                                                                                                                 

 

为人态度

Talent is God given--Be Humble.
Fame is man given-- Be Thankful.
Conceit is self given --Be Careful.
                                                                
                                                        

                                                                                                                       John Wooden

行动


Do what you can , with what you have , with where you are.
                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                       Theodore Roosevelt


No one knows what he can do till he tries.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                        Publilius Syrus Maxim

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                        Terence

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                       Thomas Fuller

Prosperity is a great teacher;
adversity is a greater.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                       William Hazlitt

 

No pains, no palm;
no thorns, no throne;
no gall , no glory;
no cross, no crown.
                                                                                                                       William Penn

 

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over... if you just sit there.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door.
Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                       Will Rogers

成功与失败

It’s not whether you get knocked down.
...It’s whether you get up again.
                                                                                                                      Vince Lombardi


An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity;
a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
                                                                                                                      Winston Churchill

热情(年轻/年老)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                      Ralph Waldo Emerson

信心

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                      James Allen


Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                      Samuel Johnson


Lost time is never found again.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                       Aughey Voltaire


No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

 

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
                                                                                                                        Napoleon

 

细心


 Leave no stone unturned.
                                                                                                                       Euipides

 

计划与工作


Plan your work for today and every day;
then work your plan.
                                                                                                                       Norman Vincent Peale


Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                       Henry Ford

I start where the last man left off.
                                                                                                                       Thomas Edison

 

理想与现实


What the mind of man can conceive and believe,
the mind of a man can achieve.

 

勤奋
 
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
                                                                                                                      Benjamin Franklin

目标
In the lone run men hit only what they aim at.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                      Henry David Thoreau

幸运

Luck is not chance...
It’s toil...
Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
                                                                                                                      Emily Dickinson

勤奋
 
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Useful Quotations
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                      Thomas Edison

想象力
 
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
                                                                                                                      Albert Einstein

挑战:
 
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                      Walter Begehot

机会与准备
 
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                      Abraham Lincoln

信心与事实


Whether you think you can or think you can’t -- you are right.

 

 

  English Proverb

Where there’s a will there’s a way.
There is no failure excepting no longer trying.

 

 

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