实用英语：别向挫折低头

*挫折赠言

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，让我们毫无畏惧、充满欢愉地把握住命运。

--尼克松

The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers.

--Frances Willard

彻底献身于自己最擅长的活动的人，是最正常、最完美的人。

--威拉德

The failures and reverses which await men-and one after another sadden the brow of youth-add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.

--Henry David Thoreau

尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。

--梭罗

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is: not to take the risk.

--Kierkegaard

在一个人生命的初始阶段，的危险就是不冒风险。

--克尔恺郭尔

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

--Thomas Fuller

黎明前总是最黑暗的。

--富勒

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

--Vauvenargues

只根据自己的想法去行动，是人们容易犯的错误。

--沃维纳格

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.

--Thomas Paine

我喜欢那种在困境中微笑，从忧伤中获得力量，通过反思变得勇敢的人。

--潘恩

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

--William Shakespeare

唯有希望才能拯救不幸者。

--莎士比亚

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

--Goethe

在任何情况下，满怀希望胜于绝望。

--歌德

Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

--J. Anderson

只要坚韧不拔，失败十九次之后，第二十次就会成功。

--安德森

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed──there is so little competition!

--Elbert Hubbard

全心全意地做你的工作，你就会成功──就此而言，几乎没有竞争。

--哈伯德

The good seaman is known in bad weather.

惊涛骇浪，方显出英雄本色。

He laughs best who laughs last.

谁笑到最后，谁笑得。