If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋,勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般,勤勉会补足其缺陷。
-Joshuas Reynolds(美国散文家雷诺兹)
Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成伟大的事业不在于体力,而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。
-Samuel Johnson(英国作家和评论家约翰逊)
Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
-Mendeleyev(俄国化学家门捷列耶夫)
Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的;其所以做不成,与其说是条件不够,不如说是由于决心不够。
-(La Racheforcauld(法国作家罗切福考尔德)
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战,世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了,不断地挑战,它总会屈服地。
-W.M Thackeray(英国小说家萨克雷)
All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为,半途而废永远不行。
-R.H. Stoddard(美国诗人斯托达德)
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败多次,但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人,他还不是一个失败者。
-J.Burroughs(美国博物学家巴勒斯)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
-Norman Douglas(英国作家道格拉斯)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
-Franklin Roosevelt(美国总统罗斯福)
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
-Mark Twain(美国作家马克?吐温)
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标,并决心实现它。
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德国诗人、剧作家歌德)
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。
-George Eliot(英国小说家艾略特)
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你怀疑自己,那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
-Ibsen(挪威剧作家易卜生)
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明灯。没有理想,就没有坚定的方向;没有方向,就没有生活。
-Leo Tolstory(俄国作家托尔斯泰)
Ideal are like the stars --- we never reach them , but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想犹如天上的星星,我们犹如税收水手,虽不能达到天上,但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。
-Carl Schurz(美国政治家舒尔茨)
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生应该树立目标,否则你的精神会白白浪费。
-R. Peters(美国法学家彼得斯)
Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后,你还可以生存,但是你虽生犹死。
-Mark Twain(马克?吐温)
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失败,就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
-Willian Shakespeare(莎士比亚)
Between the ideal and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想与现实之间, 动机与行为之间,总有一道阴影。
-Thomas Stearns Eliot(T.S.爱略特)
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一个人还有所追求,他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想,一个人才算老。
-J. Barrymore(巴里穆尔)