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