A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
你们追求的不是一个近的目标，而是一个遥远的目标，你们不会对自己可能完成的事情感到满意。
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
独立不是一时兴起或雄心壮志。这是我们民族生存的必要条件。
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition.
你必须选择最好的，每天，不妥协…以你自己的美德和最高的抱负为指引。
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
作为一名艺术家，我的目标是永远忠于我自己，给我的歌迷们奉献他们将终生享受的音乐。
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
我认为格鲁吉亚应该追求伟大。我相信伟大就在我们的掌握之中。
It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all.
敢于做大的梦，实现一半的梦想，比做小的梦，实现所有的梦想要好。
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
驾驶赛车是我学习如何制造自己的汽车的途径，这一直是我的抱负。
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
艺术抱负很重要。这似乎是一个很好的时间做一些戏剧，像一个新的极端。
It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
如果我没有任何限制，我真正想做的是什么?
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.
我当然想要获得自由。但最主要的动机不是赚钱，而是产生影响。
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
想成为一个好演员是不够的。你一定想成为一名伟大的演员。你必须拥有它。
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
在我当选之前，年轻的切罗基女孩从来没有想过她们长大后会成为酋长。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
一个发展起来并付诸行动的想法，比仅仅作为一个想法而存在的想法更重要。
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
我们读的书越多，就越清楚地认识到，作家的真正职责是创作一部杰作，没有其他任何任务是重要的。
Know your limits but never stop trying to exceed them.
知道自己的极限，但永远不要停止超越它们。
There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
有些人不会等待下一个结果。他们决定接下来该做什么，然后去实现它。
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。
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
任何为未来奋斗的人，都活在今天。