August 2020

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
卓越不是有关技能，而是态度。
– Ralph Marston

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
天上或许会掉下头衔与地产、财产或许会找上我们，但智慧我们必须自己去找。
– Edward Young

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
每个挑战、每个逆境，里面都藏有机会与成长的种子。
– Roy Bennett

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
被不确定所扰的人，无法专注在往胜利的道路。
– Arthur Golden

Some people dream of success, while other people get up and make it happen.
有些人有成功的梦想，其他人起身去实现它。
– Wayne Huizenga

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
不要以时钟，而是罗盘来引领你的人生。
– Stephen Covey

There is no disputing about tastes.
人各有所好。

Beware begninnings.
慎始为上。

The unexamined life is not worth living.
浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过。

Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康庄大道。

The meaning of life is that it stops.
生命之所以有意义是因为它会停止。

Nothing for nothing.
不费力气，一无所得。

Familiarity breeds contempt.
亲不尊，熟生蔑。

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
奇迹出自于困境。

Circumstances? I make circumstances!
英雄造时势。

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
对一件事情我们必先接受它，才能改变它。

Life is not a matter of a day.
人生没有不重要的一天。

Time never dies, we never part.
时光不老，我们不散。

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
做不可能的事蛮有趣的。

Other man live to eat, while I eat to live.
别人为食而生存，我为生存而食。
– Socrates

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。
– Victor Hugo

All for one, one for all.
人人为我，我为人人。
– Dumas pere

Easy come, easy go.
易得者亦易失。
– Hazlitt

Cowards die many times before their death.
懦夫在死之前就已经死过很多次了。
– William Sharkespeare

We have too much high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
我们的豪言壮语太多，而相应的行动太少。
– John Adams

Fans don’t boo nobodies.
粉丝不会向无名之辈喝倒彩。
– Reggie Jackson

The unexamined life is not worth living.
没有反省的人生不值得活。
– Plato

Every man is a poet when he is in love.
每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。
– Plato

Beauty lives with kindess.
美寓于善。
– William Shakespeare

The world has changed, and we must change with it.
世界已经变了，我们必须同时改变。
– Barack Obama

He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself.
胜不骄，等于胜利了两次。
– Francis Bacon

July 2020

The proper function of man is to live, but not to exist.
人应该生活，而不是单纯生存。
– Jack London

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.
鼓励是灵魂的氧气。
– George M. Adams

A great man is always willing to be little.
伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。
– R. W. Emerson

Every tragedy makes heroes of common people.
每一场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。
– Normna Stephens

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty little package.
一个人只顾自己的人不足以成大器。
– John Ruskin

Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.
人品之于人，犹如芳香之于花。
– C.C.Schwab

Konowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
– Francis Bacon

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
要善于处世，不要老于世故。
– Francis Quarles

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。
– George Eliot

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
一个人怎样死去并不重要，重要的在于他怎样活着。
– Samuel Johnson

Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
苦难显才华，好运隐天资。
– Horace

There is no absolute success in the world, only constant progress.
世界上的事没有绝对成功，只有不断地进步。
– Swift

Talent without working hard is nothing.
没有努力，天分不代表什么。

Be the best version of you.
做最好版本的你。

Everything happens for a reason.
这个世界，没有偶然。

Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
不轻诺，诺必果。

Nothing down, nothing up.
不经历风雨，怎能见彩虹。

Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
人生是不公平的，但还是好的很。

Not being heard is no reason for silence.
没有被听见不是沉默的理由。

By falling we learn to go safely.
吃一堑，长一智。

Every cloud has a silver lining.
山穷水尽疑无路，柳暗花明又一村。

Never say die.
永不气馁。

Over prepare, and then go with the flow.
准备要周全，然后随遇而安。

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
人生太短，短到来不及浪费时间去恨任何人。

Love is composed of a single inhabiting two bodies.
爱情是两个不同身体里住着同一个灵魂。

Everyone’s got a life that no one else knows about.
每个人都有自己的人生，冷暖自知。

Youth is not a time of life. It’s a state of mind.
青春不是年华，而是一种心境。

As long as we live in each other’s heart, death can’t keep us apart.
只要我们住在彼此心里，死亡也不能让我们分离。

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
真相很少纯粹，也绝不简单。

My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.
我的生活不能取悦我，所以我创造了自己的生活。

Constant dropping wears the stone.
锲而不舍，金石可镂。

June 2020

Sometimes your plans don’t work out because God has better ones.
有时候，你的计划不奏效，是因为上天有更好的安排。

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.
执子之手，与子偕老。

There is no royal road to learning.
求知无坦途。

Good is good, but better carries it.
精益求精，善益求善。

All things come to those who wait.
苍天不负有心人。

Weep no more, no sign. Sorrow calls no time that’s gone.
别哭泣，别叹息。悲伤唤不回逝去的时光。

You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
你可以拥有一切，只是你不可能马上拥有一切。

There is no coincidence in the world, only the inevitable result.
世界上是没有巧合的，只有必然的结果。

Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
心之所愿，无事不成。

A stitch in time saves nine.
防微杜渐。

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
每一个不曾起舞的日子，都是对生命的辜负。

I can stand much vilified, can afford much praise.
我能经得起多少诋毁，就能担得起多少赞美。

You will never know what you can do till you try.
你永远无法知道自己能做什么，知道你真的去做了。

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。

When all else is lost, the future still remains.
就是失去一切别的，也还有未来。

Don’t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。

A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.
千里之行，始于足下。

Not do a last effort, how will you make sure that you can’t.
不拼尽最后一丝力气，怎能确定你不行。

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
这一刻全力以赴，下一刻成就最佳。

Achievements provide the only real pleasure in life.
有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。

Stay hungry, stay foolish.
求知若饥，虚心若愚。

Don’t be afraid to be different.
不要害怕与众不同。

Every ebb awaits an overwhelming flow.
跨过人生低谷，飞跃前途险峰。

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
如果你等待，发生的只是你变老。

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
去奋斗，去追求，去发现，但不要放弃。

Ages are all equal, but genius is always above its age.
一切时代都是平等的，但天才总是超越自己所处的时代。

It never rains but it pours.
不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。

I can because I think I can.
我行，因为我相信我行。

May 2020

Week 22

No pains, no gains.
一分耕耘，一分收获。

You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。
– Charles Chaplin

Every man is the master of his own fortune.
每个人都主宰自己的命运。
– Richard Steele

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
勇敢并非没有恐惧，而是克服恐惧，战胜恐惧。
– Mark Twain

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活而无目标，犹如航海之无指南针。
– J. Ruskin

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
人可以别摧毁但不能被打败。
– Ernest Hemingway

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
抛弃我们的偏见，永远来得及。
– Henry David Thoreau

Week 21

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
人生的伟大目的不在于知而在于行。
– Thomas Henry Huxley

Never be unduly elated by victory or depressed by defeat.
胜不骄，败不馁。
– Horace Potter

The longest day has an end.
最难过的日子也有尽头。
– Howell

Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成。
– Thomas Edison

Life is not all cakes and ale.
人生并非吃喝玩乐。
– Thomas Hughes

Happiness takes no account of time.
幸福年华似流水。
– Jack London

Cease to struggle and you cease to live.
生命不止，奋斗不息。
– Thomas Carlyle

Week 20

I want to do, even if again.
我想做好，就算一次。
– Jane Austin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
艺术要么是剽窃，要么是革命。
– Marcel Duchamp

In solitude, be a multitude to yourself.
在孤独中，一个人要像一支队伍。
– Tibullus

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。
– Victor Hugo

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱那行。
– Winston Churchill

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
冬天来了，春天还会远吗？
– P.B. Shelley

Week 19

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
错误是发现的大门。
– James Joyce

Freedom lies in being bold.
自由源于勇敢。
– Robert Frost, Poet

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
你自己要成功的决心比其他任何一件事都来得重要。
– Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president

You do not succeed beacause you do not know what you want or you don’t want it intensely enough.
你没有成功因为你不知道想要什么或你想要的还不够强烈。
– Frank Crane, Minister

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
一个清楚的愿景，伴随明确计划的支持，将给你极大的信心及个人力量感。
– Brian Tracy, movtivational coach

Good mngement consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
好的管理主要在于展现一般人如何做杰出人所做的事。
– Jonhn D.Rockefeller, industrialist

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
我学到好的判断源自于经验，而经验源自于错误。
– Omar Bradley, General

Week 18

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
唯有透过了解及处理困难你才能够发现自己的最大潜能。
– Charles de Gaulle, Statesman

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
帮助别人成功可以使自己成功得最好最快确实是真的。
– Napolean Hill, Motivational writer

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
除非你能想象，否则你做不到。
– George Lucas, director

Create my new post