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
Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling.--Bernard Shaw
懒惰就象一把锁，锁住了知识的仓库，使你的智力便得匮乏。--萧伯纳
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. --Abraham Lincoln
永远记住：你自己的取得成功的决心比什么都重要。--林肯
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
最深的思想或感情就如同深睡的矿藏，在等待着同样深沉的头脑与心灵去发现和开采。 --爱默生
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. —— Catherall
求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。—— 加塞罗尔
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ( C. Darrow )
只要世界还存在，就会有错误，如果没有人反叛，这些错误将永远存在下去。(达罗)
Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind.
耐心等待!风车从不跑去找风。
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
与其诅咒黑暗，不如燃起蜡烛。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair , but the chalice of opportunity . (Richard Nixon, American President )
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。(美国总统 尼克松 . R.)
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
教养比出身更重要。
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 . ----F. W . Nietzsche , German Philosopher
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。(德国哲学家 尼采. F. W.)
You don't have to be afraid of what you are !
你不必害怕真正的你!!
What is the man's first duty? The answer is brief: to be himself. -- Henrik Ibsen
一个人的首要职责是什么?答案很简单：做自己。 -- 易卜生
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else. ( O. W. Holmes )
通常是没想到成名的人反而成了名。(霍姆斯)
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ( George Eliot )
我从不怜惜自负的人们，因为我觉得他们无处不能自我安慰。(艾略特)
Don't waste life in doubts and fears. ( Emerson )
不要把生命浪费于怀疑与恐惧中。(爱默生)
A great man is always willing to be little. ( R. W. Emerson )
伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。(爱默生)
Something attempted, something done. ( Longfellow )
有所尝试，就等于有所作为。(朗费罗)
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。
storms make trees take deeper roots.
风暴使树木深深扎根。(感激敌人，感激挫折!)
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "Impossible".(Napoleon)
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能”的。(拿破仑)
Do you love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.(Benjamin Franklin, American president)
你热爱生命吗?那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Truth needs no colour; beauty , no pencil. —— William Shakespeare
真理不需色彩，美丽不需涂饰。——W·莎士比亚
Character iS the first and last word in the success.
品德是成功的决定因素。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
若要求知，必须刻苦。
Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.
鸡蛋不打破，蛋卷做不成。/不甘愿吃苦，则预期效果达不到。
Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe
失误是进取的代价。 -- 歌德
He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe
谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。 -- 歌德
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. --John Steinbeck
主意就象野兔，你若有一对，学会怎样驯养它们，你很快就会有一打。--约翰·斯坦贝克
Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. —— James Thompson
可爱，并不需要外来的装饰，天然的可爱远比雕饰的更可爱。 —— J· 汤普森
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet . (Jean Jacques Rousseau , French thinker)
忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。 (法国思想家 卢梭. J. J.)
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. ( AL Jaber )
宝石即使落在泥潭里，仍是一样可贵;尘土纵然扬到天上，还是没有价值。(贾比尔)
I have nothing to offer but blood , toil， tears and sweat. (Winston Churchill, British Politician)
我所能奉献的没有其它，只有热血、辛劳、眼泪与汗水。(英国政治家 丘吉尔 . W.)
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. —— Aristotle
学问在成功时是装饰品，在失意时是庇护所，在年老时是供应品。—— 亚里士多德
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, whch he gives himself. --E Gibbon
每个人都接受两种教育， 一种来自别人，另一种更重要的来自自己。--吉朋
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ( W. G. McAdoo )
在争论中是无法击败无知者的。(麦卡杜)
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ( T. S. Eliot )
世界上大部分的麻烦都是要想成为伟大人物的人搞出来的。(艾略特)
In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. ( W. A. White )
教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。(怀特)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ( E. Hubbard )
许多人的名声如果在街上遇到自己的品德会互相不认识。(哈伯德)
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you. ( P. Brooks )
在你耐心地操劳于生活的琐事的过程中，你才能领悟整个生活的伟大意义和形象。 (布鲁克斯)
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ( O. Goldsmith )
我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。(哥德斯密斯)
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself. ( Nietzche )
聪明的人只要能掌握自己，便什么也不会失去。(尼采)
Ideas are like the stars --- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. ( C. Schurz )
理想就象是星星——我们永远无法到达，但是我们象水手一样，用它们指引航程。(舒尔茨)
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. ( Montaigne )
生命的价值不在于能活多少天，而在于我们如何使用这些日子。(蒙田)
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，才配享受生活或自由。(伊拉斯漠)
Man can only be free through mastery of himself. ( S. E. Morison)
只有通过掌握自己，才能使自己得到解放。(莫里森)
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败许多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪别人，他还不是一个失败者。(巴勒斯)
Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. ( C. Nepos)
要选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。(内波斯)
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effor.(Shakespeare)
不要只因一次挫败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(莎士比亚)
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。
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, whichnoArcadiansuccess 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
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ’individuality’ is the key to success. - Robert Orben
毕业典礼就是演讲人对着几千名头戴一样帽子、身穿统一制服的学生说“个性”是成功的关键。
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J. D’Angelo
不管你去往何方，不管将来迎接你的是什么，请你带着阳光般的心情启程。
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. - Susan B. Anthony
总有一天，我们会发现我们生命中那些重要的时刻并不是人们所一直宣称的那些：生日、毕业、婚礼等，也不是我们奋斗的目标实现的时刻。真正的人生转折点可能要普通得多。
School’s out, memories past, Don’t ever doubt, Our friendship will last. - Unknown
毕业了，曾经的点滴变成了回忆。但是请相信，我们的友谊将长存。
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. - Louisa May Alcott
生活就是我的大学，我希望我能顺利毕业，赢得“奖学金”。
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. - Richard Halliburton
一个月之后，我就要扬帆起航了，我将以学识做帆，勇气为桨。
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B.F. Skinner
教育是经历了学习和遗忘仍保留下来的.东西。
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
受教育的标志是你可以不接受一种观点，但你能够容纳它。
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies commencement exercises. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. - Orrin Hatch
人们把毕业典礼称为“commencement exercises”的原因是：毕业不是旅程的终结，而是开始。
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference. - Arie Pencovici
毕业只是一个抽象的概念而已，在现实生活中，我们每天都在毕业，直到生命的最后一刻。如果你能领会这句话的意思，你将会有一个不一样的人生。
