For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscle can split a shield and even destroy life but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of men and until I master this art I will remain no more than a peddler in the market place. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
And how will I speak? I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
Is it not so that birds, the wind, the sea and all nature speaks with the music of praise for their creator? Cannot I speak with the same music to his children? Henceforth will I remember this secret and it will change my life.
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(励志名言 www.lizhidaren.com)
If winter comes , can spring be far behind ?（ P. B. Shelley , British poet ）
冬天来了，春天还会远吗？（ 英国诗人， 雪莱。 P. B.）
If you doubt yourself , then indeed you stand on shaky11 ground .（Ibsen , Norwegian dramatist ）
如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。 （挪威剧作家 易卜生）
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.）
It is at our mother“s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest , but there is seldom any money in them.（ Mark Twain , American writer ）
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.Alexander Dumas （Davy de La Pailleterie, French Writer）
生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。 （法国作家 大仲马。 A.）
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
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
Do not , for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to effect .（William Shakespeare , British dramatist）
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。（英国剧作家 莎士比亚。W.）
Don“t part with your illusions . When they are gone you may still exist , but you have ceased to live. （Mark Twain , American writer）
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。（（美国作家 马克 吐温）
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 .（Thomas Edison , American inventor）
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal , there is no secure direction ; without direction , there is no life .（ Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer）
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。
（俄国作家 托尔斯泰。 L .）
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。
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。
The ideals which have lighted my way , and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully 19 have been kindness , beauty and truth .（Albert Einstein , American scientist）
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。 （美国科学家 爱因斯坦 . A .）
The important thing in life is to have a great aim , and the determination to attain it. （Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German Poet and dramatist）
人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。（德国诗人、戏剧家 歌德 . J . M .）
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds .（Mark Twain , American writer）
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 （美国作家 马克 吐温）
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our 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 .）
When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory .（Abraham Lincoln , American statesman）
·All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
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。(励志英语 www.lizhidaren.com)
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
