A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.
我知道我想成为一名电影演员,但我从来不看电视。我总是太忙。
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
我能做你不能做的事,你能做我不能做的事;我们可以一起做伟大的事情。
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
我做音乐不是为了出名。有些人确实希望如此。
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
我想做的就是和世界上最好的高尔夫球手比赛。
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
你必须有一个梦想。如果你没有梦想,你将如何使梦想成真?
I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.
我现在感觉像只老虎。只要你肯为之奋斗,就没有什么是不可能的。
Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.
有一个大目标并完成一半总比没有目标并完成全部要好。
If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.
如果有什么是我想要的,我就去争取。我只是在想我该怎么做。
I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
因此,我决定申请西点军校学员一职。
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
我曾经认为,要想成功,你需要驾驶,不眠不休,雄心勃勃的劳动。
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
人是唯一努力超越自己,渴望不可能的事物的生物。
Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
你为什么要满足于这么少呢?你为什么不去做点大事呢?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
每个人生来就是为了做一些独特的事情,如果他或她不做,就永远不会做。
If you want to get what you haven’t gotten yet, then you have to do more than what you were doing before.
如果你想要得到你还没有得到的东西,那么你必须做的比你以前做的更多。
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
崇高的目标造就崇高的品格,伟大的目标造就伟大的心灵。
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
那些想要变得伟大的人,既不应该爱自己,也不应该爱自己的东西,而应该只爱正义的东西,无论是自己做的还是别人做的。
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
摘不到星星不是一种耻辱,但是没有星星可以摘是一种耻辱。