Quotations

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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