Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

只要你的目标是履行你的职责,人类就会在你失败的地方给你荣誉。

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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

我们正面临着我们的命运,我们必须以崇高和坚定的勇气来迎接它。对我们来说,生命是行动的生命,是勤奋履行职责的生命;让我们生活在挽具里,奋力拼搏;让我们冒着磨损而不是生锈的危险吧。

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

人们希望运动员迎合他们心目中的运动员应该是什么样的形象,但他们也希望他们失败,这样他们才会觉得自己的失误没什么大不了的。如果我改变了优先级,我会去做,因为这对我来说是最好的。

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

人的心是偶像崇拜和迷信的仓库;甚至如果一个人相信他自己的思想,他一定会抛弃上帝,在自己的头脑中铸造一些偶像。

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

仅仅对新闻界来说,尽管滥用职权的情况错综复杂,但世界对理性和人道主义战胜错误和压迫所取得的一切胜利应负全责。

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

通常像我这样的人,他们经营一家公司,雇用员工,然后把功劳归于自己。

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

钱是一种奇怪的东西。没有得到它的人会强烈地瞄准它。有困难的人总是充满困难。

Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

为什么人们不能相信他和我们所有人都有幽默感?

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

责备母亲只是一种消极的死死抱住她的方式。

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

要想成功,你必须先学会失败。

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

瞄准高些,你的脚就不会掉下来。