1. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin
2. The world is his who enjoys it.
3. Gods determine what you‘re going to be. -- Julius Erving
4. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson·
5. The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
6. The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time.
7. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go.
8. When all else is lost the future still remains.
9. There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self.
10. He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe ·
11. A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.
12. Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.
13. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
14. The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary.
15. You have to believe in yourself. That‘s the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin
16. Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine·失败乃成功之母。
17. The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates·
18. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
19. Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Lincoln
20. A man can't ride your back unless it is bent.
21. Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.
22. If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born Alexander.
23. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
24. Only they who fulfill their duties in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.
25. A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
26. Albert Einstein: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
27. All things in their being are good for something.
28. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
29. The world is like a mirror: Frown at itand it frowns at you; smile, and it smiles too.
30. Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. -- J.H. Newman ·
31. A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
32. Bad times make a good man.
33. Circumstances? I make circumstances!
34. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.-- Mattin Luther King
35. Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin
36. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
37. Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
38. Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
39. Victory won‘t come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore·
40. A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison·
41. Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
42. Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle ·
43. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
44. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
45. Live beautifully, dream passionately, love completely.
46. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains
47. 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
48. While there is life there is hope. ·
49. Adversity is the midwife of genius
50. The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.