Life is in a sense a battle.The man who thinks to get on by mere smartness and by idling meets failure at last.Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls，and holds the key to those treasure—houses of knowledge from which the world has drawn its wealth both of wisdom and of moral worth.
Great men never wait for opportunities；they make them.They seize upon what ever is at hand，work out their problem，and master the situation.The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him.This is successand there is no other.
One of the important lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat.It takes courage and stamina，when mortified by humiliating disaster，to seek in the ruins the elements of future conquest.Yet this measures the difference between those who succeed and those who fail.We cannot measure a man by his failures.We must know what use he makes of them.The man who has not fought his way upward and does not bear the scar of desperate conflict does not know the highest meaning of success.
想過成功，想過失敗，但從沒想過放棄……
參考翻譯（王偉明）
拿破侖曾經說過，“成功屬於那些有毅力的人”。通過細致的研究我們發現毅力取決於三方麵——目標、意誌和激情。一個有目標的人一定會集中他的所有精力去做一件事情；隻有有了強烈的想要成功的意誌，一個人的夢想和計劃才不能破滅而得以實現；激情可使人的興趣持續下去而不至於衰減，使人蔑視困難的存在。
從某種意義上講，人生是場鬥爭。僅僅妄想通過小聰明和閑混取得成功的人最終都會遭遇失敗。毅力是那些意誌最堅定的人前進的主要推動力；毅力是取得財富的鑰匙。這些財富是知識的寶庫，在這裏人們既可以得到智慧的啟迪又能得到道德價值的提升。
偉大的人從來不會坐著等待機會的到來，而是要抓住身邊的機會。他們會抓住自身擁有的資源，解決問題，掌控形勢。在世界上，一個人能做的最偉大的事情就是用自身僅有的資源創造出最大的價值。這就是成功唯一的定義。
生活教給我們一堂重要的課就是怎樣從失敗中取得成功。受盡巨大災難的淩辱卻還在廢墟中尋找未來製勝的因素是需要勇氣和耐力。這正是成功者和失敗者的區別所在。我們不能用失敗來評判一個人，我們必須知道他能從失敗中學到什麼。一個人，不求上進、沒有承受過絕望的衝擊和矛盾的痛苦，是不會理解成功的真正內涵的。
Companionship Of Books 與書為伴
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A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps；for there is a companionship of books as well as of men；and one should always lived in the best company，whether it be of books or of men.