Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. 
奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。 

－C. Weizmann（爱尔兰总统魏茨曼） 



It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. 
天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。 

－G. Eliot（英国小说家艾略特） 



If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. 
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。 

－Joshuas Reynolds（美国散文家雷诺兹） 



Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance¹. 
完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。 

－Samuel Johnson（英国作家和评论家约翰逊） 



Genius only means hard-working all one's life. 
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。 

－Mendeleyev（俄国化学家门捷列耶夫） 



Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,rather than of means, that man fails to succeed. 
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。 

－(La Racheforcauld（法国作家罗切福考尔德） 



Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb². 
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服地。 

－W.M Thackeray（英国小说家萨克雷） 



All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right. 
做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。 

－R.H. Stoddard（美国诗人斯托达德） 



A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. 
一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。 

－J.Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯） 



You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. 
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。 

－Norman Douglas（英国作家道格拉斯） 



The only limit to our realization³ 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（美国总统罗斯福） 



The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 

－Mark Twain（美国作家马克•吐温）

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