Strike while the iron is hot.趁热打铁 The good seaman is known in bad weather. 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。 For man is man and master of his fate. 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。 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。 The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底 All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。 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。 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，满心愉 悦地把握命运。-- 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 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
