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。 

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达到的目的。

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。

I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man．I don’t know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world．

我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。我认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。

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。

If winter comes，can spring be far behind？

冬天来了，春天还会远吗？

If you doubt yourself，then indeed you stand on shaky11 ground．

如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。

If you would go up high，then use your own legs！Do not let yourselves carried aloft；do not seat yourselves on other people’s backs and heads．

如果你想走到高处，就要使用自己的两条腿！不要让别人把你抬到高处；不要坐在别人的背上和头上。

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest，but there is seldom any money in them．

就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass．

生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。

The ideals which have lighted my way，and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness，beauty and truth．

有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是——真、善、美。

The important thing in life is to have a great aim，and the determination to attain it．

人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。

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。

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。

When an end is lawful and obligatory，the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory．

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 

雅思一息若存，希望不灭。 -- 英国谚语 

Try

While there is life there is hope. 

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。