英文格言警句 第28期:堅(jiān)持與勝利(8)

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

我不知道成功之道,但卻知道失敗之路的大門向人人敞開(kāi)。

Bill Cosby, American comedian

比爾.科斯比，美國(guó)喜劇演員

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts.

許多人終于成功只是因?yàn)樗诜磸?fù)努力之后遭遇了失敗。

If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

如果他從來(lái)沒(méi)有失敗過(guò)，那他就不會(huì)知道任何偉大的勝利。

Orison Marden, American writer

奧里森.馬登，美國(guó)作家

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

如果你失敗了你也許會(huì)失望，但如果你不嘗試，你就死定了。

Beverly Sills, American soprano

貝弗利.西爾斯，美國(guó)女高音歌唱家

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent.

無(wú)論你秉性如何，保持你的本色;永遠(yuǎn)不要拋棄你的天賦。

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;

成為你自己，你將會(huì)成功;

be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

否則，你會(huì)比一事無(wú)成還要糟糕千萬(wàn)倍。

Sydney Smith, English writer

西德尼.史密斯，英國(guó)作家

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better.

不要因?yàn)樽约涸谂Ω纳粕畹倪^(guò)程中而可能取得的微乎其微的成功而氣餒，也不要為此傷心痛苦。

You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise.

當(dāng)然，你不可能在自己這一代就能創(chuàng)造個(gè)人世間的天堂。

Who could expect that?

誰(shuí)又能指望那樣呢?

But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

但是，如果你讓生活哪怕是好一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，你都表現(xiàn)得極為出色了，你的生命也將有所價(jià)值。

Arnold Toynbee, British historian

阿諾德.湯因比，英國(guó)歷史學(xué)家