Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. (智力投资绝不会白花。)
Constant dropping wears the stone. (滴水穿石。)
Experience is the mother of wisdom.(经验是智慧之母。)
Every man is his own worst enemy.(一个人最大的敌人就是他自 己。)
Saying and doing are two different things. (说和做是迥然不同的两回事。)
Actions speak louder than words. (行动比语言更响亮。)
From small beginnings comes great things. (伟大始于渺小。)
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.（脑中有知识，胜过手中有金钱。）
The voice of one man is the voice of no one. (一个人的声音没有力量。)
A great ship asks for deep waters.(大船要走深水。)
While there is life, there is hope.(有生命便有希望/留得青山在,哪怕没柴烧)
Two heads are better than one. (一人不及二人智;三个臭皮匠,胜个过一个诸葛亮。)
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.
(聪明人从别人的错误中学得教训；笨人则自己付出代价。他山之石可以攻玉。)
Good company on the road is the shortest cut. (行路有良伴就是捷径。)
It takes all sorts to make a world. (世界是由各种不同的人所组成的。)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.(无热情成就不了伟业。)
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.(没有恒心只有力量是完不成伟业。)
It is never too late to learn. (活到老，学到老。)
It is never too late to mend. (亡羊补牢，犹时未晚。)
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.(成功的秘诀在于持之于恒。)
Misfortunes never come alone/single.(祸不单行。)
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.(遭祸容易脱祸难。)
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.(不经灾难不知福。)
To an optimist every change is a change for the better.(对于乐观者总是越变越好。)
Truth never fears investigation.(事实从来不怕调查。)
A good medicine tasks bitter.（良药苦口。）
Great minds think alike. （英雄所见略同。）
Storms make trees take deeper roots.（风暴使树木深深扎根。）
Live and let live. (自己生活也让别人生活。)
Better late than never. (迟做总比不做好；晚来总比不来强。)
A bold attempt is half success.(勇敢的尝试是成功的一半。)
All things are difficult before they are easy. (凡事必先难后易。)
What we acquire without sweat we give away without regret.(得之不费力，弃之不可惜。)
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.（只要有一颗意志坚强的心，没事不成。）
Work makes the workman.（勤工出巧 匠。）
Constant dropping wears the stone. (滴水穿石。)
He that can have patience, can have what he will.（唯坚韧者始能遂其志。）
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.（我们绝大多数的失败都是因为缺乏自信之故。）
The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of time.
（成功之路没它，唯全力投入工作，而不稍存沽名钓誉之心。）
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.(读书不思考，犹如吃饭不消化。)
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and thedetermination to attain it.
（人生之要事在于确立伟大的目标与实现这目标的决心。）
One of these days is none of these days.(有这么一天就是没有这么一天。/吾生待明日，万事成蹉跎。)
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.(每匹马都认为自己所负的背包最重。)
Nothing down, nothing up. (无下则无上。/不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹？)
A good book is your best friend. (好书如挚友。)
Asking costs nothing. (问人不费分文。)
Ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies.(你不问我，我就不会说谎话。)
The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones. (舌无骨却折断骨。)
A good name is easier lost than won.（名誉失之易，而得之难。）
Every profession produces its own best（行行出状元。）
Today must borrow nothing of tomorrow. (今日事今日毕。)
IDEAL 理想篇
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)
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。
(美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)
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 .)
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 )
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。
(美国作家 马克·吐温)
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 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)
如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国政治家 林肯. A.)
STRUGGLE 奋斗篇
Genius only means hard-working all one's life .( Mendeleyer , Russian Chemist)
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。 (俄国化学家 门捷列耶夫)
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.)
Man errs so long as he strives. (Johan Wolfgang Goethe , German poet and dramatist)
人只要奋斗就会犯错误。 (德国诗人、剧作家 歌德. J. W.)
My fellow Americans , ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country .
My fellow citizens of the world ; ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man .
(John Kennedy , American President )
美国同胞们，不要问国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你们能为国家做些什么。
全世界的公民们，不要问美国将为你们做些什么，而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。
(美国总统 肯尼迪. J.)
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.)
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.)
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow .
(Emerson, American thinker )
进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。 (美国思想家 家默生)
The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .
No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes .
He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new ;
and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them .
(Franklin Roosevelt , American President )
人经过努力可以改变世界，这种努力可以使人类达到新的、更美好的境界。没有人仅凭闭目、不看社会现实就能割断自己与社会的联系。他必须敏感，随时准备接受新鲜事物；他必须有勇气与能力去面对新的事实，解决新问题。(美国总统 罗斯福建. F.)
There is no royal road to science ,and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of gaining its numinous summits .
(Karl Marx, German revolutionary ) 在科学上没有平坦的大道，只有不畏劳苦沿着其崎岖之路攀登的人，才有希望达到它光辉的顶点。( 德国革命家 马克思. K .)
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible ".
(Bonaparte Napoleon ,French emperor )
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说"不可能的"。( 法国皇帝 拿破仑. B.)
To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom .(Ronald Reagan , American President )
为了保住这最后的、最伟大的自由堡垒，我们必须尽我们所能。(美国总统 里根. R.)
We cannot always build the future for our youth , but we can build our youth for the future .
(Franklin Roosevelt , American president )
我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F.)
Where there is a will , there is a way .( Thomas Edison , American inventor )
有志者，事竟成。 (美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)
SUCCESS 成功篇
Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life .( Thomas Edison , American inventor)
有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。( 美国发明家 爱迪生. T. )
But has the last word been said ? Is all hope to be lost ? Is the defeat final No !(Charles De Gaulle , French president )
但是难道败局已定，胜利已经无望？不，不能这样说！ (法国总统 戴高乐. C.)
I succeeded because I willed it ; I never hesitated .(Bonaparte Napoleon , French emperor )
我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇 。 (法国皇帝 拿破仑. B .)
If you wish to succeed , you should use persistence as your good friend , experience as your reference ,
prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. (Thomas Edison , American inventor )
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。
(美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily .
(Friedrich Schiller , German Dramatist and poet).
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举地完成困难的事。(德国剧作家、诗人 席勒. F.)
Power invariably means both responsibility and danger .(Theodore Roosevelt , American president)
实力永远意味着责任和危险。 (美国总统 罗斯福. T.)
Success covers a multitude of blunders .(George Bernard Shaw , British Dramatist)
成功由大量的失望铸就。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
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 .they make them.(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )
在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
You have to believe in yourself . That's the secret of success .(Charles Chaplin , American actor )
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。 (美国演员 卓别林. C)
HEALTH 健康篇
A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
豁达者长寿。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)
Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , American president)
懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker )
健康是人生第一财富。 (美国思想家 爱默生. R. W.)
WEALTH 财富篇
All the splendor 1 in the world is not worth a good friend .(Voltaire , French thinker)
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。 (法国思想家 伏尔泰)
Creditors 4 have better memories than debtors . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )
放债的比借债的记忆好。( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
If you would know the value of money , go and try to borrow some .
(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
If your Riches are yours , why don't you take them with you to the other world ?(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
如果财富是你的，那么你为什么不把它们和你一起带到另一个世界去呢？(
美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Money is a good servant and a bad master .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
金钱是善仆，也是恶主。( 英国哲学家 培根. F. )
Money is like muck , not good except it be spread .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher)
金钱好比粪肥，只有撒到在大地才是有用之物。(英国哲学家 培根. F.)
No country , however rich , can afford the waste of its human resources .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)
任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。(美国总统 罗斯富. F.)
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing .(Albert Einstein , American scientist )
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。(美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A.)
HAPPINESS 幸福篇
A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it ; it would be hell on earth .(G. Bernard Shaw ,British dramatist )
终身幸福！这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
Happiness is form courage .( H. Jackson , British writer )
幸福是勇气的一种形式。 (英国作家 杰克逊. H.)
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby .(G. Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )
醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G .)
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement ,
in the thrill of creative effort .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president )
幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。(美国总统 罗斯福. F.)
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen ,
as by little advantages that occur every day .( Benjamin Franklin ,American president).
与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be .(Abraham Lincoln ,American president )
对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。(美国总统 林肯. A.)
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not .
(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳 . G .)
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved .(
Victor Hugo , French novelist )
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。( 法国小说家 雨果. V .)
There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence .(Jean Jacques Rousseau, French thinker )
人间最大的幸福莫如既有爱情又清白无暇。( 法国思想家 卢梭. J . J. )
To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune .(Bonaparte Napoleon , French emperor )
要真正了解一个人，需在不幸中考察他。 (法国皇帝 拿破仑. B .)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it .
(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)
正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。
(英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G. )
TIME 时间篇
At twenty years of age , the will reigns; at thirty , the wit ; and at forty , the judgment .(Benjamin Franklin ,American president)
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。(美国总统 富兰克林 . B.)
Do you love life ? Then do not squander time ; for that's the stuff5 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.)
Each moment in history is a fleeting time , precious and unique .(
Richard Nixon , American president )
历史巨轮飞转，分分秒秒的时间都十分宝贵，也独具意义。(美国总统 尼克松. R.)
Fish and visitors smell three days .( Franklin Benjamin , American president )
鱼放三天发臭，客住三天讨嫌。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
I am a slow walker , but I never walk backwards .(Abraham Lincoln , American president)
我走得很慢，但是我从来不会后退。 (美国总统 林肯. A.)
If you want to understand today , you have to search yesterday .(
Pearl Buck , American female writer )
想要懂得今天，就必须研究昨天。(美国女作家 赛珍珠)
In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure .
(William Shakespeare , British dramatist) 迁延蹉跎，来日无多，二十丽姝，请来吻我，衰草枯杨，青春易过。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)
Never leave that until tomorrow , which you can do today . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )
今天的事不要拖到明天。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B. )
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time ; a man of talent tries to use it .
(Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher ) 普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。(德国哲学家 叔本华. A. )
The golden age is before us , not behind us . (Mark Twain , American writer )
黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。( 美国作家 马克·吐温)
The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long .
(William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)
Time is money .( Benjamin Franklin , American president)
时间就是金钱。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
To choose time is to save time .( Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
合理安排时间就是节约时间 。( 英国哲学家 培根. F.)
We always have time enough , if we will but use it aright. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet )
只要我们能善用时间,就永远不愁时间不够用。(德国诗人歌德. J.W.)
Weep no more , no sigh , nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone .(John Fletcher , British dramatist )
别哭泣，别叹息，别呻吟；悲伤唤不回流逝的时光。(英国剧作家 弗莱沏. J.)
STUDY 学习篇
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation .
(Franklin Roosevelt , American president )
E永恒的真理如果不在新的社会形势下赋予新的意义,要么就不是真理,要么就不是永恒的。
(美国总统 罗斯福 . F.)
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ;
logic and rhetoric able to contend . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。( 英国哲学家 培根. F.)
If you don't learn to think when you are young , you may never learn .(Thomas Edison , American inventor )
如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。(美国发明家 爱迪生 . T.)
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。(英国哲学家 培根 . F.)
WORK 工作篇
Don't gild the lily.
不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚 . W .)
I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain , American writer)
只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。(美国作家 马克·吐温)
It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do .
(Winston Churchill , British prime minister)
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。 (美国首相 丘吉尔. W.)
My philosophy of life is work . (Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor)
我的人生哲学就是工作。 (美国发明家 爱迪生 . T . A .)
When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer )
工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。
(俄国作家 高尔基. M.)
Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty.
(Voltaire , French philosopher )
工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。 (法国哲学家 伏尔基泰)
KNOWLEDGE 知识篇
Activity is the only road to knowledge .
(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)
行动是通往知识的唯一道路 。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 1 besides books .
(Thomas Jefferson , American president)
一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。( 美国总统 杰斐逊 . T.)
A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way .(Adams Franklin , American humorist )
我的大部分知识都是这样获得的：在寻找某个资料时意外的发现了另上的资料。
(美国幽默作家 富兰克林. A.)
If a man empties his purse into his head , no man can take it away from him ,
an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )
倾已所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Imagination is more important than knowledge .(Albert Einstein , American scientist )
想象力比知识更为重要。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A. )
Knowledge is power . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
知识就是力量。 (英国哲学家 培根. F.)
The empty vessels make the greatest sound . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)
