difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.艰难艰辛是我们的生活教材。
failure is the mother of success.– thomas paine失败乃取得成功之母。
for man is man and master of his fate.人便是人，是自身命运的主人家。
the unexamined life is not worth living.– socrates混混噩噩的生活不值过。– 苏格拉底none is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.– erasmus仅有每日再度击败生活并夺得随意的人，才配享有生活的随意。
our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. so let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. — r.m. nixon命运给与人们的没有心寒之酒，反而是机遇之杯。因而，使我们没什么惧怕，心头喜悦地掌握命运。– 尼克松总统
man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.识时务者为俊杰，水往低处流。
man errs as long as he strives. –goethe过失是奋发进取的成本。–施特劳斯
the failures and reverses which await men – and one after another sadden the brow of youth – add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no arcadian success would do. — henry david thoreau虽然失败和挫败等候着大家，一次次地抢走青春年少的容貌，但却给人生道路的市场前景增加了一份自尊，这也是一切成功的顺利都无法实现的。–梭罗a man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.–j. burroughs一个人可以失败很多次，可是只需他沒有逐渐指责别人，他还没有一个失败者。–巴勒斯
in time of prosperity,friends will be plenty ,in time of adversity,not one amongst twenty.失势时好朋友盈门，失势时看不到一人,富在深山有远房亲戚，穷在闹市无人问
hope for the best and prepare for the worst抱最好是的期待 做最坏的大算
poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is贫困非耻辱 耻贫乃耻辱all things in their being are good for something.天生我才必有效。