A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成功
Success
成功的讨论不只有结果,也包括学习、实践、挫折和判断。把这些表达放回自己的处境中阅读,比把一句话当作万能答案更有帮助。
Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
许多付了一辈子房租的人拥有自己的房子;许多家庭成功地攒钱买了一所房子,最后却发现自己一无所有,只有一所房子。
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
我们社会的价值观正在被广告对等式的坚持所破坏:青春等于受欢迎,受欢迎等于成功,成功等于幸福。
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
如果我允许我的失败,或者在当时我看来缺乏成功,使我灰心丧气,我看不出我还有什么办法取得进步。
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
健全的性格提供了一种力量,一个人可以驾驭生活中的突发事件,而不是被它们压倒。失败是……成功之路。
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
人们总是认为我没有野心。他们以貌取人,结果被愚弄了。我是竞争力。我想要成功,并愿意为之努力。
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
艺术家绝不能成为囚犯。囚犯?艺术家不应该成为自己的囚徒、风格的囚徒、名誉的囚徒、成功的囚徒等等。
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
如果你说教会的历史是一连串的丑闻,那你就是在说真话,虽然如果你说的就是这些,那你就是在歪曲事实。
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
因此,部队被赋予权力,在这场战争中有责任使用任何将导致成功的手段,而不减轻甚至对妇女和儿童的伤害。
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
我对那些努力工作以求成功的人没有意见。但是我认为人们非常嫉妒成功。我工作很努力,他们却不领情。
I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.
我希望我的作品能激发年轻艺术家的灵感。作为一名艺术家,我一直努力保持自己的自由,我觉得这是我成功的主要原因之一。
Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.
即使人们在电视节目上很有钱,很成功,也总会有一些麻烦。你得给他们打洞,把他们从工作中赶出去,把馅饼扔到他们脸上。
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
优胜者的优势不在于天生的天赋、高智商或天赋。胜利者的优势在于态度,而不是天资。态度是成功的标准。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
没有人有足够的记忆力成为一个成功的说谎者。
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
一切伟大成就的代价,都是不断的斗争,从荒凉的环境中取得成功的无休止的斗争。
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
随着时间的推移,一家成功的公司将获得大量的资源和动力,而一旦它不再成功,这些东西往往会将它与现实隔离开来。
The road to success is not a path you find but a trail you blaze.
成功之路不是你找到的路,而是你自己开辟的路。
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
每一个在一次伟大的冒险中获得成功的人,在遇到问题时都能迎刃而解。他们帮助自己。在他们起航的时候,有他们所知道的,也有他们所不知道的。他们不顾遇到的困难继续前进。
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
我爸爸是婴儿。当他出生时,他们已经很成功了。他们把他送进了商学院——他可能很想成为一名诗人或作家之类的,而且他非常有创造力。