Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

每个人在成功之前都有权自负。

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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

如果没有火,就不会有尖叫。如果没有尖叫,那么就没有人听到你,也没有人来帮助你。我奋斗的深度决定了我成功的高度。能够教导我的孩子不仅仅是关于成功,还有随之而来的奋斗。

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

我想对你们说,一个开明的人民和一个充满活力的国家的生活不能用一个人的生活来衡量。一个成功的人是设法打下一块新石头,一块有助于巩固他的国家存在的砖。

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

你有许多小的天赋和美德,但是没有必要炫耀它们,因为自负会毁掉最优秀的天才。真正的才华和善良不会被长期忽视,所有力量的最大魅力在于谦虚。

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

对于诗人来说,平庸现在和从前一样,是危险的,通常是致命的;但是,即使是成功的散文作家,那些理智地超越它的人也是非常罕见的例外。

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

心胸越小,自负越大。

Count no man successful until he is dead.

死后才算成功。