All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine
失败乃成功之母。
All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事必先难后易。
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
眼见的不能全信，耳闻的也不能半信。
Better an empty purse than an empty head.
宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
脚踏两头要落空。
For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
心之所愿，无事不成。
Where there is life, there is hope.
有生命必有希望。
I feel strongly that I can make it.
我坚信我一定能成功。
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
与其诅咒黑暗，不如燃起蜡烛。
The shortest answer is doing.
最简短的回答就是行动。
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above
the crowd: a little bit more.
成功的秘诀就是四个简单的字：多一点点。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，梦颐呛廖薹惧，满心愉悦地把握命?- 尼克松
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin
生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 · 埃略特
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
出身固然重要，教养更且重要。
Business before pleasure.
事业在先，享乐在后。
By falling we learn to go safely.
吃一堑，长一智。
By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
读书可以使我门的思想充实，谈话使其更臻完美。
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.-- Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac
没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。 -- 巴尔扎克
pain past is pleasure
过去的痛苦即快乐。