1、1. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Joseph Addison（美国作家艾迪生）知足是人生在世最大的幸事。2. If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）如果你希望成功，当以
2、恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。3. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. Richard Nixon（美国总统尼克松）命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。4. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人、剧作家歌德）人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现
3、它。5. Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life. Leo Tolstory（俄国作家托尔斯泰）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。6. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亚）不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。7. An ounc
4、e of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 预防胜於治疗。8. Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow . (Emerson, American thinker )进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。 (美国思想家 家默生)9. The world can be changed by mans endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .No man can sever the
5、 bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them . (Franklin Roosevelt , American President )人经过努力可以改变世界，这种努力可以使人类达到新的、更美好的境界。没有人仅凭闭目、不看社会现实就能割断自己与社会的联系。他必须
6、敏感，随时准备接受新鲜事物；他必须有勇气与能力去面对新的事实，解决新问题。(美国总统 罗斯福)10. When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory .(Abraham Lincoln , American statesman)如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国政治家 林肯. A.)11. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be o
7、ur doubts of today .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F .)12. Great works are performed not by strengh, but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic ) 完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。 13. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
8、困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。14. 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15. The people who get on
9、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16. Its better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and
10、youll drift in that direction.最好和比你优秀的人在一起。和行为良好的人在一起，你的行为也会朝着那个方向发展的。17. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, youll do things differently.建立名誉需要 20 年，而 5 分钟就可以毁了它。多这样想，做事就会全然不同了。18. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer
11、 than the windshield.在商界，后视镜往往比挡风玻璃更清晰。19. Beauty, wit, high birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. 美貌、智慧、门第、臂力，事业、爱情、友谊和仁慈，都必须听命于妒忌而无情的时间。20. Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or
12、deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all mans actions. Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy. (Sigmund Freud, German Psyc
13、hiatrist)言辞具有不可思议的力量。他们能带来最大的幸福，也能带来最深的失望；能把知识从教师传给学生；言辞能使演说者左右他的听众， ，并强行代替他们作出决定。言辞能激起最大强烈的情感，促进人的一切行动。不要嘲笑言辞在心理治疗当中的的用途。(国精神分析学家 弗洛伊德 S)21. The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep in their downward tendency. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German poet)文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这
14、两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德 J W)22. Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher)幸福的家庭，父母靠慈爱当家，孩子也是出于对父母的爱而顺从大人。(英国哲学家 培根.F.)23. Your school may have done away with winners and
15、 losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; theyll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesnt bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (Bill Gates)你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生，但生活却仍在作出类似区分。在某些学校已经废除不及格分；只要你想找到正确答案，学校就会给你无数的机会。这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处。24. Great beauty,great stength,and great riches,are really and truly of no great use;a right heart exceeds all.25. Its the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. 自欺是世上最易之事。
