A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
公共生活被视为事业的顶峰，对年轻人来说，这是最值得追求的目标。政治仍然是最伟大、最光荣的冒险。
I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.
除了湖人，我什么都不知道。作为一名球员，这不仅仅是我的工作。它对我的意义当然不仅仅是一份职业。
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
伟大的抱负是伟大人物的激情。具有这种能力的人可能会做出非常好的行为，也可能做出非常糟糕的行为。一切都取决于指导它们的原则。
It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.
这很大程度上取决于个人，取决于你自己，你在战斗中投入了多少，你工作有多努力，这就是结果的来源。
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
在我成长的过程中，与我的母亲、父亲、祖父母的交谈，显然促使我想要尽可能地做出改变。
We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.
我们看到的是那些眼睛里有星星的人，但如果你真的具备了所需的条件，你可以在大约五年的时间里，从一开始做到顶峰。
I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
我和其他孩子完全不同……我更有野心。我知道我喜欢什么，我想要什么，我非常努力地工作。我是一个非常认真的孩子。
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
一个成功的人通常会设定他的下一个目标，但不会比他的上一个目标高太多。就这样，他稳步提高了自己的抱负水平。
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
我很骄傲，爱报复，野心勃勃。我所犯的错误比我的思想、想象力和时间都要多。
Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'
年轻人必须停止想成为下一个扎克伯格。这是万亿分之一的机会。他们需要的是脱线和佩特说:“找份工作，孩子。”
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。
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
当我年轻的时候，我的抱负是成为改变这个世界的人之一。我希望离开这个世界，因为我曾经去过那里。
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it .is greatness.
做必须做的事。这也许不是幸福，但却是伟大。
If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
如果你想实现你的梦想，你必须追随它们，追随它们的最好方法不是想变得非常富有，而是想做一些你真正想做的事情。
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。
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
高尚的精神更多地与单纯而非炫耀有关，与智慧而非财富有关，与承诺而非野心有关。
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
除非一个人承担超过他所能做的，否则他永远也做不到他所能做的。
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
每一项对现有条件作出重大改变的大胆尝试，每一项对人类新的可能性的崇高设想，都被贴上乌托邦的标签。