Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生的,但是你得为之拼命的努力。
-C. Weizmann(爱尔兰总统魏茨曼)
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不会掉下玫瑰来,如果想要更多的玫瑰,必须自己种植。
-G. Eliot(英国小说家艾略特)
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋,勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般,勤勉会补足其缺陷。
-Joshuas Reynolds(美国散文家雷诺兹)
Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成伟大的事业不在于体力,而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。
-Samuel Johnson(英国作家和评论家约翰逊)
Genius only means hard-working all ones life.
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
-Mendeleyev(俄国化学家门捷列耶夫)
Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的;其所以做不成,与其说是条件不够,不如说是由于决心不够。
-(La Racheforcauld(法国作家罗切福考尔德)
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战,世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了,不断地挑战,它总会屈服地。
-W.M Thackeray(英国小说家萨克雷)
All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为,半途而废永远不行。
-R.H. Stoddard(美国诗人斯托达德)
A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败多次,但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人,他还不是一个失败者。
-J.Burroughs(美国博物学家巴勒斯)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
-Norman Douglas(英国作家道格拉斯)
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。
-Franklin Roosevelt(美国总统罗斯福)
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。
-Mark Twain(美国作家马克吐温)
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