Motivational Quotes of the Day-112007
Motivational Quotes of the Day
Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations
November 01, 2007
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
停止生气，愤怒和伤痛只会使你的肌肉紧张，因咬紧牙关而引起头痛和下巴酸痛。原谅还你欢笑和轻松的生命。
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
那些在已有的教堂寻求慰藉的人通常为获得他们平静的心灵而默认接受去忽视这世界运作的实况。
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
我不认为成功像很多人所说的是有害的。相反的，假如增进天份和其他的比较，我相信天份是不可缺的。
Jeanne Moreau
We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
我们不能学什么除了从已知到未知。
Claude Bernard (1813 – 1878)
A smiling face is half the meal.
笑脸是半餐饭。
Latvian Proverb
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
我们从未一起笑的人我们无法真正的爱他们。
Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaim the man.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
相信你自己！对你的能力有信心！对自己的力量没有谦恭而又合理的信心你无法成功或快乐。
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
在我们的孩提时，我们常想当我们长大我们就不会再容易受伤。但成长就是去接受弱点。活着就是要受伤。
Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. 当你们互相给予，那就是公平交易。每一个人都赢。
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
当你离开大学时，有成千上万的人和你有一样的文凭；当你找到ㄧ个工作时，有成千上万的人为生活做着你想要做的事。但是你是唯一活着监护你的生命的一个人。Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.
我们一直在此而我们也会一直在这里。我们是一个粒子的特别安排组合，而这瞬间是无限的。是我们倒霉吗，或不？打出这句子的胜算比被这句子你所读是不可理解的。笑一笑，因为事实上妳所为几乎是不可能被理解的。
Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
专心来自信心和渴望的结合。
Arnold Palmer (1929 - )
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
假如你没被批评，那你可能做的不多。
Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Secretary of Defense
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
我们对明日的认知的唯一极限是我们对今日的怀疑。让我们以坚强和积极的信念向前进。
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
(暂译)我想人们没有放置够高的价值于无论那完全吸引他们所用以培育他们的。Jean Shinoda Bolen
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
假如你渴望的到最高的位子，那并不丢脸停在第二名，甚至于第三名。
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
顺从的回报是每个人都喜欢你除了你自己。
Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. 纵令有最好的地图和仪器，我们永远也无法完全绘出旅程。
Gail Pool
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
人是生来活的，不是来为生命做准备。
Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
My Karma ran over your dogma.
我的业力超越你的教条。
Unknown
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
当你没有时间或金钱去把事情做对时传统是你的凭借。
Kurt Herbert Alder
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. 真正伟大的书应该在年轻的时候阅读，成熟时再读一次，而老时再读一次，就像一座优雅的建筑应在晨曦时，午时和月光下看。
Robertson Davies
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.当我年轻的时候，我可以记得任何事，无论它是否发生。
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.
Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
人的才智不是和他们的经验而是和他们容纳经验的能力成正比。
James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
最有力量的人乃是将自己置于自己的力量内。
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
工作和收获，你已将幸运之轮串起来。
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
假如我们改变我们的态度，我们将不只对生命有不同的看法，且生命本身也会变得不同。因为我们自己态度进行改变生命的外观也改变。
Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
真情是唯一可安全立足的土地。
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
无人可以给你自由。无人可以给你平等或正义或任何事。假如你是个人，你取之。Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
只有好心肠是不够的。主要是要把它用得好。
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
Dare to be yourself.
大胆当你自己。
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
为何不到树枝去，果实不是长在那里吗？
Frank Scully
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
我们不接受智慧；我们必须经过一段没有人能接受或宽恕我们的旅程来自己发现。Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
我们对关键的事情保持静默那天我们的生命开始结束。
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
享受进餐的艺术不是些微的艺术，愉快不是些微的愉快。
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
我入错行了，但是我用正直的态度来做。
Sydney Biddle Barrows, in Marian Christy, ''Mayflower Madam' Tells All,' Boston Globe, 1986
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
没有人能真正像我。有时我甚至会觉得如此做有问题。
Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
每一个人必得是他个人生命故事的英雄。
John Barth (1930 - )
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
爱不是像顽石一样坐在那里；爱必须去制造，像面包一样，随时重做，制造新的。Ursula K. LeGuin
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
虽然这世界充满着痛苦，但是它也充满克服痛苦的方法。
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
你一排解接受比你所应得的还少时，你得到比你所排解接受的还少。
Maureen Dowd, in 'New Y ork Times'
Y ou can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
你无法将时钟倒转，但是你可以将它再次的上紧。
Bonnie Prudden
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together. 我写一张壹仟万元的支票给我自己当作演戏的酬劳并写上一九九五年感恩节为兑现日期。我放入皮夹内，它破损了。接着就在一九九五年感恩节前，我发现我将得到壹仟万元当Dumb & Dumber的片酬。我将这张支票放入父亲的棺材内因为那是我们共同的梦想。
Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
上智的心灵乃仍然有待学之处。
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
不要悲伤看过去。它不会再回来。聪明地改进现有的。那是你的。不要恐惧，向朦胧的未来前进。
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.
才干无它只是延长专心期和缩短心智的同化期。
Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938)
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
训练你自己放下你所畏惧失去的东西。
George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
我给任何年轻女子最强可能的建言是：莫鬼混及勿抽烟。
Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
治疗担心、忧郁、伤感、郁结的最好的方法就是审慎的向前进并试着用对别人哀伤的同情鼓舞自己。
Arnold Bennett
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.
完美主义仅对你的未来设限。当你在心中有一个完美的主意，你就开一扇门不断地去比较你现有的和你想要的。这种自我批评有效的制止你不敢前进。
John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
我们不可能失去胜利除非我们不尝试。
Tom Clancy (1947 - )
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
法律并不是刻在石头上而事像写在水中，随着潮水流进流出。
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
真的幽默是有趣的–它不会陷害，戏弄，或嘲弄。它让人觉得惊奇，不是分离的，异常的，和使人闭口无言。真正的幽默在其内有谅解说我们在这都是在一起的。Hugh Prather
No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
无人能替你说唇上的字。将你自己浸润在未说的话语。张开你的双臂来生活。今天是你的书本的第一页。其他的还未写。
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
我已失败许多次，这就是为何我是一个成功者。
Michael Jordan (1963 - )
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
永勿读完一本书只因为你已开始读它。
John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
专注未来不止预防我们视现在如其然，通常也会提醒我们重新安顿过去。
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Y ou can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
当你对自己不满意你可能对所有的事不满意。
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. Y ou don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. Y ou realize that you control your own destiny.
你生命中最好的数年是你判决你的问题是你自己的的那几年。你不怪罪你的母亲，生态，或总统。你体认到你掌控你自己的命运。
Albert Ellis
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
毕竟那些有深沉和真正内在生命的人是最能处理外在生命的惹人生气细节。Evelyn Underhill
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
唯一真正的幸福来自为一目的散尽自我。
William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. 切勿对你毫无真正感觉的爱做假，因爱不是我们能指使的。
Alan Watts
Y ou desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use o f suffering.
你渴望了解生命的艺术吗，我的朋友？那含在一句话之内：善用痛苦。
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
有些事在静中学得最好，有些却是在风暴中。
Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark, 1915
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
用书写来学习和用阅读来学习一样。
Lord Acton
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets felicity in love. 淡然的拥有；泰然的放弃。这是一个最大爱的秘密幸福之一。
Spanish Proverb
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
我所知道可确定的事是你所给予的会回报给你。
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
『常识』是我知道最好的感觉器。
Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Y ou cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
你不能以逃避今天的责任来逃避明天的责任。
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. 要自生命中取得你所要的第一步是：决定你要什么。
Ben Stein
Y ou sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
假如你够胆你可说已开始认为任何一件事是可能的。
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. 不积极是一个极快乐但又令人苦恼的状况；我们必须做些事时才能快乐。Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
和有礼貌的人打交道你的举止也会改进。和正派的人士打交道你自己正经的天性也会增强。
Stanley Walker
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.
爱会飞翔，奔跑和欢乐；它是自由也没有什么能制止它。
Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
有时候过去的事必须让它过去。如此，我们才有空间让新的事物进入我们的生命。Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05