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Have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted.
没有目标的一生注定碌碌无为，确定一个目标吧。——R.Peters

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活没有目标，就像航海没有罗盘。
——John Ruskin

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
人犯错误最危险的一种就是忘记自己的目标是什么。 ——Paul Nitze

High expectations are the key to everything.
远大理想是开启万物的钥匙。
——Sam Walton

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
缺少动力将让生活无聊乏味。
——G.Eliot

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
如果你等待，发生的只是你变老。
——Larry McMurtry

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
不要试图去做个成功者，宁可做个有价值的人。 ——Einstein

Hope deserts us at no period of our existence.
在我们一生中，希望从来未遗弃过我们。
——R.L.Stevenson

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
希望是顿美好的早餐，但却是顿糟糕的晚餐。——Francis Bacon

It is not by the grey of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
白发并不能告诉你一个人心灵的年纪。
——Edward B.Lytton

If you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
如果年轻时不培养知识，年老时将没有乘凉的树荫。——Chesterfield

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步乃今日之努力，明日之保证。
——Emerson

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
青年时卤莽；中年时奋斗；老年时后悔。
——Benjamin Disraeli

Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out.
时间一点一滴地流逝，如同蜡烛慢慢燃尽。——Willian Yeats

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
光辉人生中忙碌的一个小时抵得过碌碌无为的一生。——Scott

When your will is ready, your feet are light.
当你的意志坚强了，你前进的脚步就轻快了。 ——Herbert

To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
对于一只盲目航行的船而言，所有方向的风都是逆风。——Herbert

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in raising every time we fall.
人生的光荣不在于从不失败，而在于跌倒后每次都能站起来。——O.Goldsmith

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
并不是我的所有愿望都能实现，但我依然拥有希望。——Ovid

All the advantage isn't in running fast, but rather in getting an early start.
优势不在于跑得快，而在于起身早。
——Rabelais

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
去奋斗，去追求，去发现，但不要放弃。
——Tennyson

Ages are all equal, but genius is always above it's age.
一切时代都是平等的，但天才总是超越自己所处的时代。——William Blake

Unhappy, hope; happy, be cautions.
失意时，满怀希望；得意时，凡事审慎。
——Robert Burton

The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你；笑着对它，它也笑着看你。
——H.L.Samuel

Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without a direction, there is no life.
理想是灯塔。没有理想，就没有明确的航向；没有航向就没有生活。——Leo Tolstoy

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
一个目标过高和过低都会偏离靶心。
——Thomas Fuller

Life's like a play: It's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
生活如一个剧本：重要的不是长度而是演出精彩与否。——Seneca

A man's not old, but mellow, like good wine.
人不会老朽， 而是越来越有味道，就像美酒。 ——Stephen Phillips

The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你；笑着对它，它也笑着看你。
——H.L.Samuel

Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
有一点我可以确信，如果我们就过去和现在展开一场争吵， 我们就会发现我们已失去将来。——W.Churchill

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
通往幸福的最大障碍就是对幸福苛求太多。 ——Fontenelle

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
精彩的人生未必完美。
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不怕慢，只怕站。
Do not fear going slow, only fear standing still.
化干戈为玉帛
beat swords into ploughs
欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。
We widen our views 3 hundred miles by ascending one flight of stairs.
会当凌绝顶，一览众山小。
When reaching the great peak (of Mount Tai), we hold all mountains in a single glance.
结交一言重，相期千里至。
Friends are as good as their words, they travel a thousand li to keep a rendezvous.
桃李不言，下自成蹊。
Peaches and plums do not have to talk, the world beats a path to them.
君子敏于行而讷于言。
The gentlemen are speedy as a worker and cautious as a speaker.
实事求是。
Seek truth from the facts.
不到黄河心不死。
Until all is over ambition never dies. / Never say die.
雄关漫道真如铁，而今迈步从头越
The strong pass of the enemy is like a wall of iron, yet with firm strides, we are conquering its summit
路曼曼其修远兮，吾将上下而求索
My way ahead is long; I see no ending; yet high and low I'll search with my will unbending.
安不忘危，治不忘乱
In security, we should never forget the dangers and in times of peace, we should always beware of the potential for chaos.
海不辞水，故能成其大
The ocean never turns away streams, so it becomes wide and deep
山不辞土石，故能成其高
The mountain never turns away stones, so it becomes towering and strong.
同舟共济
Help one another, for we are all in the same boat.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福
Like Weather, one's fortune may change by the evening.
治大国如烹小鲜
Running a large country is like cooking a small fish.
先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐
To worry before the common people worries; to enjoy only after the people can enjoy.
春愁难遣强看山，往事惊心泪欲潸。四百万人同一哭，去年今日割台湾。
On such a nice spring day, my heart was so heavy with sadness. So I went out sightseeing in the mountain, however, my mind always went back to this day last year when 4 million people on Taiwan cried the same tears of sorrow as Taiwan was ceded.
原乡人的血，必须流返原乡，才会停止沸腾
Only when the blood of the native son flows back to his native place will it stop boiling.
已所不欲，勿施于人
What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.
有德者，必有言，有言者，不必有德。
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
不耻下问
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也
What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge. / True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.
自求多福/天助自助者
He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness
天下为公
Justice for all in the World
自相矛盾
Self Contradiction!
有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎。人不知而不愠，不亦君子乎。
When friends gather round from afar do we not rejoice? Whom lack of fame cannot vex is not he a gentleman?
力拔山兮气盖世
With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the world
四海为家
Make my home everywhere within the four seas / The world is my home / (The world is my oyster)
吾生也有涯，而知也无涯
Life is finite, while knowledge is infinite.
人生自古谁无死，留取丹心照汗青。
Since the dawn of time every one will die, let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.
四海之内皆兄弟也
All men are brothers
国家兴亡，匹夫有责
Rise and fall of a nation rests with every one of its citizens
老马识途
Old horse knows the way
掩耳盗铃
Like burying one's head in the sand / (self-deceit)
不管黑猫还是白猫，能抓到老鼠就是好猫。
Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat
不出户，知天下。
Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
人之初，性本善
Every child born has innate goodness.
一见钟情
Love at first sight
孟母三迁
Mencius' mother moves her home three times to better her son's education
不自由，勿宁死。
Give me liberty, or give me death!
百闻不如一见
Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times. /A picture is worth ten thousand words
学而时习之, 不亦说乎。 有朋自远方来, 不亦乐乎。
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it a lso great when friends visit from distant places?
巧言令色, 鲜矣仁。
Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a 'too-smiley' face is seldom considered a humane person.
诗三百, 一言以蔽之, 曰： 「思无邪」。
The 300 verses of the Book of Odes can be summed up in a single phrase: 'Don't think in an evil way’.
为政以德
Govern with the power of virtue
子曰： 「吾十有五而志于学, 三十而立, 四十而不惑, 五十而知天命, 六十而耳顺, 七十而从心所欲, 不逾矩。」
Confucius said: "At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts; at fifty I knew the mandate of heaven; at sixty my ear was obedient; at seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing the norm."
温故而知新, 可以为师矣。
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
学而优则仕
A good scholar can become an official.
学而不思则罔, 思而不学则殆。
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
知之为知之, 不知为不知, 是知也。
What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.
成事不说, 遂事不谏, 既往不咎。
Don't bother explaining that which has already been done; don't bother criticizing that which is already gone; don't bother blaming that which is already past.
子曰：「朝闻道, 夕死可矣 」
Confucius said: "If I can hear the Tao in the morning, in the evening I can die content."
见贤思齐焉; 见不贤而内自省也。
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points."
子曰：「德不孤, 必有邻。」
Confucius said: "If you are virtuous, you will not be lonely. You will always have friends."
子曰：「三人行, 必有我师焉：择其善者而从之, 其不善者而改之。」
Confucius said: "When three men are walking together, there is one who can be my teacher. I pick out people's good and follow it. When I see their bad points, I correct them in myself."
性相近也, 习相远也。
People are similar by nature, but through habituation become quite different from each other."

To know everything is to know nothing.
什么都知道，一如什么都不知道。
To know oneself is true progress.
人贵有自知之明。
Tomorrow never comes.
我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
过分熟悉会使人互不服气。
Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
学问太多催人老。
Too much liberty spills all.
自由放任，一事无成。
Too much praise is a burden.
过多夸奖，反成负担。
To save time is to lengthen life.
节约时间就是延长生命。
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋。
Troubles never come singly.
福无双至，祸不单行。
Truth never grows old.
真理永存。
Turn over a new leaf.
洗心革面，改过自新。
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。
Two heads are better than one.
一个好汉三个帮。
Two of a trade seldom agree.
同行是冤家。
Two wrongs do not make a right.
别人错了，不等于你对了。
Unity is strength.
团结就是力量。
Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
忠言逆耳利于行。
Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
不到黄河心不死。
Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
吃小亏占大便宜。
Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
美德远远胜过美貌。
Walls have ears.
小心隔墙有耳。
Wash your dirty linen at home.
家丑不可外扬。
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
滴水穿石。
Wealth is nothing without health.
失去健康，钱再多也没用。
We know not what is good until we have lost it.
好东西，失去了才明白。
Well begun is half done.
好的开始，是成功的一半。
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井干方知水可贵。