It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

  • -- Samuel Smiles 塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯

认为人通过成功而成功是错误的;他们往往通过失败获得成功。教训、学习、忠告和榜样永远不能像失败那样教会他们。

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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.

我们每个人的成功,都是因为有人在那里为你指明出路。光不一定一定要在你的家里;对我来说,这就是老师和学校。

They were always...getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

他们总是……他们得到了超出他们应得的荣誉,承受了超出他们承受能力的悲伤,在他们还没有准备好之前就爬上了工作岗位,在他们成功的时候却失败了。

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

如果我奋斗的时候你不在,那就别指望我成功的时候你在。

If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.

如果我不能成为一个好例子,我就只能成为一个可怕的警告。

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

人生是一连串的教训,只有经历过才会懂得。

Produce great men, the rest follows.

产生伟大的人物,其余的就跟着产生。