Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.人往高處走，水往低處流。

　　Man errs as long as he strives. --Goethe失誤是進取的代價。--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, which no Arcadian success would do. -- Henry David Thoreau盡管失敗和挫折等待著人們，一次次地奪走青春的容顏，但卻給人生的前景增添了一份尊嚴，這是任何順利的成功都不能做到的。--梭羅A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.--J. Burroughs一個人可以失敗很多次，但是只要他沒有開始責怪旁人，他還不是一個失敗者。--巴勒斯

　　In time of prosperity,friends will be plenty ,In time of adversity,not one amongst twenty.得勢時朋友盈門，失勢時不見一人,富在深山有遠親，窮在鬧市無人問

　　Hope for the best and prepare for the worst抱最好的希望 做最壞的大算

　　Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is貧窮非恥辱 恥貧乃恥辱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.困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。

　　Failure is the mother of success.-- Thomas Paine失敗乃成功之母。

　　For man is man and master of his fate.人就是人，是自己命運的主人。

　　The unexamined life is not worth living.-- Socrates混混噩噩的生活不值得過。-- 蘇格拉底None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.-- Erasmus只有每天再度戰勝生活并奪取自由的人，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命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。因此，讓我們毫無畏懼，滿心愉悅地把握命運。-- 尼克松

　　Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.--John Ruskin生活沒有目標，猶如航海沒有羅盤。--羅斯金What makes life dreary is the want of motive.--George Eliot沒有了目的，生活便郁悶無光。--喬治·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過的路。他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。

　　There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power.-- Balzac沒有偉大的意志力，便沒有雄才大略。--巴爾扎克

　　The good seaman is known in bad weather.驚濤駭浪，方顯英雄本色。Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.--J.H. Newman 不要害怕你的生活將要結束，應該擔心你的生活永遠不會真正開始。--紐曼

　　Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving人生的奮斗目標決定你將成為怎樣的人。--歐文

　　An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.--Robert Louis Stevenson生活的目標，是唯一值得尋找的財富。-史蒂文森

　　While there is life there is hope.一息若存，希望不滅.-- 英國諺語Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. --A. Einstein 不要為成功而努力，要為做一個有價值的人而努力。--愛因斯坦

　　You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.--Charles Chaplin人必須有自信，這是成功的秘密。--卓別林

　　Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.不管追求什么目標，都應堅持不懈。

　　We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.-- Mattin Luther King我們必須接受失望，因為它是有限的，但千萬不可失去希望，因為它是無窮的。--馬丁·路德·金Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin能量加毅力可以征服一切。--富蘭克林

　　Nothing seek, nothing find.無所求則無所獲。

　　Cease to struggle and you cease to live.-- Thomas Carlyle 生命不止，奮斗不息。--卡萊爾

　　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只有強者才懂得斗爭；弱者甚至失敗都不夠資格，而是生來就是被征服的。--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在這個世界上取得成就的人，都努力去尋找他們想要的機會，如果找不到機會，他們便自己創造機會。--蕭伯納A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. --Thomas Addison強者能同命運的風暴抗爭。--愛迪生

　　He who seize the right moment, is the right man. --Goethe誰把握機遇，誰就心想事成。--歌德

　　Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore勝利是不會向我們走來的，我必須自己走向勝利。--穆爾