名言錄


The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.  

– Albert Einstein, Physicist

天才和愚蠢之間的區別就是天才是有極限的。阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦 (物理學家)



“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

– Albert Einstein

「想像力是一切,它是生命即將發生事情的預覽。」阿爾伯特‧愛因斯坦



Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

  Albert Einstein

想像力比知識更重要。因為知識是有限的,而想像力是無限,它包含了一切,推動着進步,是人類進化的源泉。 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 

 – Albert Einstein

不要試圖去做一個成功的人,要努力成為一個有價值的人 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦



The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.  

 – Albert Einstein

一個人的價值,在於他貢獻了甚麼,而不在於他能得到甚麼。 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦


If I can see a bit farther than some others, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants.  

– Isaac Newton

如果說我比別人看得更遠些,那是因為我站在了巨人的肩上艾薩克·牛頓



“Every man dies. Not every man lives. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the “buts” you use today.” 

– Les Brown, Musician

「每個人都會死,但不是每個人都真正活著。你明天人生唯一的限制是你今天說的『可是』。」萊斯‧布朗 (音樂家)



“The more a man thinks, the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” 

– Ernest Dimnet, Priest

「一個人愈常思考,他就愈能適應思考,若教育不是有方法的建立思考的習慣,那它是沒有意義的。」歐尼斯特‧蒂姆尼特 (牧師)



“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

– Plato, Greek Philosopher

「不要以威勢或嚴厲來訓練孩子學習,藉由讓他們感到快樂的事物引導他們,好讓你更能精準的發現每一位天才獨特的才華。」柏拉圖 (古希臘哲學家)



“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”

– Maya Angelou, Poet

「如果你不喜歡某件事,去改變它。如果你不能改變它,改變你的態度。不要抱怨。」馬雅‧安哲羅,詩



“Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.”

– Socrates, Greek Philosopher

「了解自己是智慧的最高點。」蘇格拉底 (古希臘哲學家)



“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”

– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Philosopher

「每個世紀人類一直犯的六個錯誤:相信個人利益是藉由摧毀別人來取得;擔心不能改變或修正的事情;因為我們無法達成,就堅持一件事不可能;拒絕排除不重要的個人偏好;忽視心智的發展及改進;企圖強迫別人有和我們一樣的想法及生活方式。」西塞羅 (羅馬哲學家)



“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.”

– Richard Bach, Writer

「為你的局限因素辯解,那你就是真的把自己局限在裡面。」理查‧巴哈 (作家)



“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

– Aristotle, Philosopher

「教育是興盛時的點綴物及逆境時的避難所。」亞里斯多德 (哲學家)

 
 “Don’t fear failure – Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

– Bruce Lee, Martial Artist

「不要害怕失敗不是失敗,而是低的目標,才是罪行。嘗試偉大的事即便失敗也是輝煌的。」李小龍 (武術家)



“Cease negative mental chattering. – If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”

– Bruce Lee, Martial artist

「停止負面的內心對話如果你覺得一件事不可能,你將讓它變得不可能。悲觀會讓你成功需要的工具變鈍。」李小龍 (武術家)



“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.”

– Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman

「力量不來自軀體的能力,它來自不屈不撓的意志。」甘地 (政治家)



“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

– Mahatma Gandhi, statesman

「如同你明天會死亡般地生活,如同你會活到永遠般地學習。」甘地 (政治家)



“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”

– Tom Clancy, novelist

「往前注視你能做的事,不是往後看你不能改變的。」湯姆‧克蘭西 (小說家)



“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”

– Jacki Joyner-Kersee, athlete

「往前看且準備比往後看再後悔更好。」賈姬‧喬伊納克西 (運動員)



“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”

– Will Rogers, Humorist

「別讓過去之事占據今天太多時間。」威爾‧羅傑斯 (幽默演員)



“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

– Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa

「生活最大的榮耀不在於從未跌倒,而是每次跌倒後再站起來。」納爾遜‧曼德拉 (前南非總統)



"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

– Michael Jordan, NBA player

「如果你試圖達成某事,那將有路障。我有遇過它;每個人都有遇過它。可是障礙並不一定要阻止你。如果你碰到一面牆,不要轉身放棄。想出怎麼爬過它,穿過它,或另想法子。」麥可‧喬丹  (NBA 球員)



“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.”

– Michael LeBoeuf, Author

「浪費錢你只會缺錢,但浪費時間你已失去生命的一部分。」麥克‧勒伯夫 (作家)



“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.”

– Bill Cosby, Comedian

「人們比你想像的更容易原諒別人,但你必需原諒自己,捨棄難過的事然後前進。」比爾‧考斯比 (喜劇演員)



“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

– Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

「悲觀主義者在每個機會裡看到困難;樂觀主義者在每個困難裡看到機會。」溫斯頓‧邱吉爾 (英國首相)



“There is only one good – knowledge, and only one evil – ignorance.”

– Socrates, Greek philosopher

「世上只有一件好事知識,只有一件惡事無知。」蘇格拉底 (古希臘哲學家)



“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven.”

– John Milton, Poet

「心決定它自己的地方,而它本身可以把地獄看作天堂或天堂看作地獄。」約翰‧彌爾頓 (詩人)



“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

– George Washington Carver, Botanist

「百分之九十九的失敗來自有習慣找藉口的人。」喬治‧華盛頓‧卡弗 (植物學家)



“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

– Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister

「意識到你對真相的無知是通往知識的一大步。」班傑明‧迪斯雷利 (英國首相)



“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction.”

– Warren Buffett, Investor

「與比你更好的人在一起較好。挑出行為比你好的夥伴,而你將往那個方向移動。」華倫‧巴菲特 (投資家)



“Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.”

– Tommy Lasorda, Baseball manager

「壓力是我們字彙裡被不當使用的字。當你開始在想壓力時,那是因為你已開始在想失敗。」湯米‧拉索達 (棒球隊經理)



“Being miserable is a habit. Being happy is a habit. The choice is yours.”

– Tom Hopkins, Sales trainer

「處於可憐是一個習慣,處於快樂是一個習慣,選擇是你的。」湯姆‧霍普金斯 (銷售培訓師)



“No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.”

– Lou Holtz, Football coach

「不管一個人的遭遇有多差,還有其它人的遭遇更差。記住那個會讓生活好過許多並讓你能夠享受所給予你的恩澤。」‧霍茲 (美式足球教練)



“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert Schuller, Clergyman

「永遠看你還留有什麼,絕不看你失去了什麼。」羅伯特‧舒勒 (神職人員)



“Every artist was first an amateur.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

「每位藝術家一開始都是外行人。」拉爾夫‧愛默生 (詩人)



“When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.”

– Thomas Edison, Inventor

「當一個人死時,若他能將熱忱傳承給他的孩子,他已留給他們一個價值難以計算的遺產。」湯瑪斯‧愛迪生 (發明家)



“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

– Mary Bethune, Educator

「沒有信念,沒有事情是可能的。有了它,沒有事情是不可能的。」瑪麗‧白求恩 (教育家)



“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president

「成功方程式裡最重要的單一元素是知道如何與人相處。」西奧多‧羅斯福 (美國第 26 任總統)



“Eighty-five percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job has to do with your people skills and people knowledge.”

– Cavett Robert, Professional speaker

「你得到一份工作、保有那份工作、及在那份工作的進展,85% 的原因與你的交涉技巧、人際知識有關。」卡維特‧羅伯特 (專業演說家)



“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”

– Plato, Greek philosopher

第一個及最好的勝利是戰勝自己。」柏拉圖 (古希臘哲學家)



“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

– Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach

「一位成功的人與別人不同之處不在於力量的缺乏,不在於知識的缺乏,而是意志的缺乏。」文斯‧隆巴迪 (美式足球教練)



“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer

「知道是不夠的,我們必需運用;希望是不夠的,我們必需行動。」約翰‧沃爾夫岡‧馮‧歌德 (作家)



“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

– Napolean Hill, Motivational writer

「行動是智慧的真正衡量標準。」拿破崙‧希爾 (勵志作家)



“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

– Laozi, Philosopher

「千里之行,始於足下。」老子 (思想家)



“Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”

– Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

「就如鐵因不用而生鏽,怠惰損壞智力更是如此。」李奧納多‧達文西 (藝術家)



“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

– Benjamin Franklin, Statesman

「要麼就書寫值得閱讀的事情,要不就做值得被書寫的事情。」班傑明‧富蘭克林 (政治家)



“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

– Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

「隨著年齡增長,我較不關注人們說的話。我只看他們做的事。」安德魯‧卡內基 (工業家)



“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

– Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

「我們都會死亡。我們的目標不是活到永遠,而是創造能夠如此的事物。」恰克帕拉尼克 (小說家)



“Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.”

– Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States

「生命裡沒有比有效溝通能力更重要的東西。」傑拉爾德‧福特 (美國第 38 任總統)



“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”

– Brian Tracy, Motivational Coach

「溝通是一個可以學習的技巧。它就像是學騎腳踏車或打字。如果你願意在此下功夫,你可以快速改善生活品質的每一部分。」布萊恩‧崔西 (勵志教練)



“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”

– Arthur C. Benson, Writer

「通常改變自己比改變環境更重要。」亞瑟‧班森 (文學作家)



“The great use of life is to spend it doing something that will outlast it.”

– William James, Psychologist

「生命之大用是花時間做比生命延續更久的事情上。」威廉‧詹姆斯 (心理學家)



“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

– Thomas Jefferson, Third U.S. President

「每當你做一件事情時,假設全世界都在看你。」湯瑪斯‧傑佛遜 (美國第三任總統)



“Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills that you should avoid.”

– Thomas Jefferson, Third U.S. president

「學習從別人的災難中看到你該避免的弊端。」湯瑪斯‧傑佛遜 (美國第三任總統)



“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

– William Faulkner, Author

「不要只想超越你的同儕或前輩,試圖超越你自己。」威廉福克納 (小說家)



“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”

– William J.H. Boetcker, Priest

「別在乎別人做什麼;做得比自己好,每天突破你自己的紀錄,你就是一位成功者。」威廉‧博克 (牧師)



“Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”

– Albert Einstein, Physicist

「任何愚蠢的人都可以把事情弄得更大、更複雜、或更暴力。些許的聰穎及很大的勇氣才能使事情往相反的方向移動。」艾伯特‧愛因斯坦 (物理學家)



“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

– Napolean Hill, Motivational writer

「教育源自於內心;你經由掙扎、努力、及思考而學習。」拿破崙‧希爾 (勵志作家)



“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”

– Thomas Edison, Inventor

「天才是 1% 靈感及 99% 汗水。因此,天才通常只是一個做完所有功課的聰明人。」湯瑪斯‧愛迪生 (發明家)



“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

– George Santayana, Philosopher

「最有智慧的人都還有須要學習的」喬治‧桑塔耶納 (哲學家)



“The most important thing is your self-respect. It doesn’t matter what people think about you, but what you think about yourself.”

– Robert H. Abplanalp, inventor

「最重要的東西是你的自尊,別人怎麼看你並不重要,而是你怎麼看你自己。」羅伯特‧阿普拉納爾普 (發明家)



“To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.”

– Stedman Graham, educator

「瞭解自己是追求夢想及目標的第一步也是最重要的一步。」史帝曼‧葛瑞漢 (教育家)



“Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately. “

– Stephen Covey, Author

「不要為別人的弱點爭辯,也不要為你自己的爭辯。當你犯錯時,承認它,糾正它,且立刻從中學習。」史蒂芬‧柯維 (作家)



“Don’t ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It’s like saying you’re wiser today than you were yesterday.”

– Robert Newell, Humorist

「絕不要害怕承認錯誤,這就像是在說你今天比昨天更加的明智。」羅伯特‧紐威 (幽默作家)



“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

– Lucille Ball, actress

「我其中一樣透過教訓而學來的事情是氣餒對人毫無幫助,保持忙碌且讓樂觀成為你的生活方式可以恢復你對自己的信心。」露西爾‧鮑爾 (演員)



“Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it.”

– David Jordan, Scientist

「智慧是知道要做什麼,實地執行才是美德。」–  大衛‧喬登 (科學家)



“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”

– Peter Drucker, Management Expert

「我們必需時常改進、挑戰、及增加我們的知識,否則它將不復存在。」彼得‧杜拉克 (管理學專家)



“All men who deliberate on controversial matters should do it free of hate, friendship, anger and pity.”

– Sallust, historian

「在商討具有爭議性話題時,所有人都應在沒有仇恨、友誼、氣憤、及憐憫的情況下進行。」薩盧斯特 (歷史學家)



“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”

– Helen Keller, Lecturer

「與其和那些比我們幸運的人比較命運,我們應該與大多數的人們來比較,這時我們反而顯得是幸運者之一。」海倫‧凱 (演說家)



“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act, but a habit.”

– Aristotle, Philosopher

「我們重覆的行為造就了我們,卓越因此不是一個行為,而是一個習慣。」亞里斯多德 (哲學家)



“Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.”

– Brian Tracy, Motivational Coach

先處理造成你最大煩惱的事情,通常這會突破你工作上的僵局,且讓你在心理上得到釋放以完成其它的工作。」布萊恩‧崔西 (勵志教練)



“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

– Hugh White, Senator

「過去的沒辦法改變,但未來還在你的掌握之中。」‧懷特 (參議員)



“Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90% of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. Instinct won’t carry you through the entire journey. It’s what you do in the moments between inspiration.”

– Cate Blanchett, Actress

「有人或許有點天賦,但是 90% 是紀律及你如何利用它,你用它做了什麼。直覺無法帶領你走完整趟旅程,在每個靈感之間你做了什麼才是真正重要的。」凱特‧布蘭琪 (女演員)



“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.”

– Jackson Brown Jr., Writer

「不要說你時間不夠,你每天被付予的小時數和海倫凱勒、巴士德、米開朗基羅、達文西、傑弗遜、及愛因斯坦完全一樣。」傑克森‧小布朗 (作家)



“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

– William Channing, Theologian

「困難是用來激勵人心,而不是使人氣餒。人的心靈將因挫折而成長拙壯。」威廉‧錢寧 (神學家)




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