英语格言

 　　英文格言1、A contented¹ mind is the greatest blessing² a man can enjoy in this world.

　　知足是人生在世最大的幸事。

　　——Joseph Addison（美国作家艾迪生）2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

　　要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。

　　——Benjamin Franklin（美国总统富兰克林）3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence³ as your good friend,experience as your reference, prudence⁴ as your brother and hope as your sentry⁵.

　　如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。

　　——Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,because it is by health that money is procured⁶.

　　健康当然比金钱更为重要，因为我们所赖以获得金钱的就是健康。

　　——Samuel Johnson（英国作家约翰逊）5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.

　　能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。

　　——Henry David Thoreau（美国作家梭罗）6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

　　有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。

　　——Albert Einstein（美国科学家爱因斯坦）7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.

　　意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。

　　——Louis Pasteur（法国化学家巴斯勒）8、All the splendor⁷ in the world is not worth a good friend.

　　人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。

　　——Voltaire（法国思想家伏尔泰）9、There is a great different between exposure ofthe mind and that of the body.

　　表露思想和展露身体之间存在极大的不同。

　　——William Hazlitt（英国批评家散文家哈滋里特）10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,and the true success is to labor⁸.

　　怀着希望去旅行比抵达目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。

　　——Robert Louis Stevenson（英国作家史蒂文森）11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.

　　一个人越伟大，对表扬和奉承就越反感。

　　——John Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）12、I might say that success is won by three things:

　　first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.

　　可以说成功要靠三件事才能赢得：努力，努力，再努力。

　　——Thomas Hardy（英国诗人小说家哈代）13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

　　成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。

　　——Charles Montesquieu（法国思想家孟德斯鸠）14、Only those who have the patience to do simple thingsperfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

　　只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举的完成困难的事。

　　——Friedrich Schiller（德国剧作家诗人席勒）15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.

　　你必须相信自己，这是成功的关键。

　　——Charles Chaplin（美国演员卓别林）16、A man can succeed at almost anything for whichhe has unlimited⁹ enthusiasm.

　　无论何事，只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。

　　——C. M. Schwab（美国实业家施瓦布）17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.

　　凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。

　　——Bonapart Napoleon（法国皇帝拿破仑）18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.

　　进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。

　　——Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,but the chalice¹⁰ of opportunity.

　　命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。

　　——Richard Nixon（美国总统尼克松）21、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）22、It never will rain roses.（名人名言  www.lz13.cn）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）23、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）24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance¹¹.

　　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）25、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）26、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）27、Dare and the world always yields.

　　If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb¹².

　　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）28、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）29、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）30、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）31、The only limit to our realization¹³ 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）32、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）33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,and the determination to attain¹⁴ it.

　　人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。

　　——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人、剧作家歌德）34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

　　人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。

　　——George Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）35、If you doubt yourself,then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

　　如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。

　　——Ibsen（挪威剧作家易卜生）36、Ideal is the beacon¹⁵. Without ideal,there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.

　　理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory（俄国作家托尔斯泰）37、Ideal are like the stars --- we never reach them ,but like mariners¹⁶ , we chart our course by them.

　　理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。

　　——Carl Schurz（美国政治家舒尔茨）38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.

　　人生应该树立目标，否则你的精神会白白浪费。

　　——R. Peters（美国法学家彼得斯）39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,but you have ceased to live.

　　不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。

　　——Mark Twain（马克 吐温）40、Do not, for one repulse,give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.

　　不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。

　　——Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亚）41、Between the ideal and the reality,Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.

　　理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。

　　——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.爱略特）42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

　　A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

　　只要有一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。

　　——J. Barrymore（巴里穆尔）

1 contented   

adj.满意的，安心的，知足的

参考例句：

• He won't be contented until he's upset everyone in the office.不把办公室里的每个人弄得心烦意乱他就不会满足。
• The people are making a good living and are contented,each in his station.人民安居乐业。

2 blessing   

n.祈神赐福；祷告；祝福，祝愿

参考例句：

• The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
• A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。

3 persistence   

n.坚持，持续，存留

参考例句：

• The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.他女儿持续的咳嗽把他难住了。
• He achieved success through dogged persistence.他靠着坚持不懈取得了成功。

4 prudence   

n.谨慎，精明，节俭

参考例句：

• A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。
• The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.幸运者都把他们的成功归因于谨慎或功德。

5 sentry   

n.哨兵，警卫

参考例句：

• They often stood sentry on snowy nights.他们常常在雪夜放哨。
• The sentry challenged anyone approaching the tent.哨兵查问任一接近帐篷的人。

6 procured   

v.（努力）取得， （设法）获得( procure的过去式和过去分词 )；拉皮条

参考例句：

• These cars are to be procured through open tender. 这些汽车要用公开招标的办法购买。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• A friend procured a position in the bank for my big brother. 一位朋友为我哥哥谋得了一个银行的职位。 来自《用法词典》

7 splendor   

n.光彩；壮丽，华丽；显赫，辉煌

参考例句：

• Never in his life had he gazed on such splendor.他生平从没有见过如此辉煌壮丽的场面。
• All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。

8 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

9 unlimited   

adj.无限的，不受控制的，无条件的

参考例句：

• They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
• There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。

10 chalice   

n.圣餐杯；金杯毒酒

参考例句：

• He inherited a poisoned chalice when he took over the job as union leader.他接手工会领导职务，看似风光，实则会给他带来很多麻烦。
• She was essentially feminine,in other words,a parasite and a chalice.她在本质上是个女人，换句话说，是一个食客和一只酒杯。

11 perseverance   

n.坚持不懈，不屈不挠

参考例句：

• It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
• Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。

12 succumb   

v.屈服，屈从；死

参考例句：

• They will never succumb to the enemies.他们决不向敌人屈服。
• Will business leaders succumb to these ideas?商业领袖们会被这些观点折服吗？

13 realization   

n.实现；认识到，深刻了解

参考例句：

• We shall gladly lend every effort in our power toward its realization.我们将乐意为它的实现而竭尽全力。
• He came to the realization that he would never make a good teacher.他逐渐认识到自己永远不会成为好老师。

14 attain   

vt.达到，获得，完成

参考例句：

• I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
• His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。

15 beacon   

n.烽火，（警告用的）闪火灯，灯塔

参考例句：

• The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
• The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。

16 mariners   

海员，水手（mariner的复数形式）

参考例句：

• Mariners were also able to fix their latitude by using an instrument called astrolabe. 海员们还可使用星盘这种仪器确定纬度。
• The ancient mariners traversed the sea. 古代的海员漂洋过海。