1.All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。

2.Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. 困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。

3.Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.-- Lincoln 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路。他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。

5.There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac 沒有偉大的意志力，便沒有雄才大略。 -- 巴爾扎克

6.The good seaman is known in bad weather. 驚濤駭浪，方顯英雄本色。

7.Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman 不要害怕你的生活將要結束，應該擔心你的生活永遠不會真正開始。 -- 紐曼

8.Gods determine what youre going to be. -- Julius Erving 人生的奮斗目標決定你將成為怎樣的人。 -- 歐文

9.An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson 生活的目標，是唯一值得尋找的財富。-- 史蒂文森

10.Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)苦難顯才華，好運隱天資。(古羅馬詩人 賀拉斯)

11.Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)差不多任何一種處境無論是好是壞都受到我們對待處境的態度的影響。(古羅馬哲學家 西尼加 L A)

12.Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller, American writer)雖然世界多苦難，但是苦難總是能戰勝的(美國作家 海倫凱勒)

13.Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficultie，and concentrate instead upon the opptunity---for there is always opportunity in crisis. (Seebohm Caroline, British physician)讓我們建議處在危機之中的人：不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危險和困難上，相反而要集中在機會上因為危機中總是存在著機會。(英國醫生 卡羅琳 S)

14.Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent. (Lucius Annaeus Seneneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)小困難，大聲叫嚷；大困難，悶聲不響。(古羅馬哲學家 尼加 L A)

15.Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.(James Russell Lowell, American poetess and critic)災難就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以為我們服務，拿住刀刃則會割破手。(美國女詩人、批評家 洛威爾 J R)

16.No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us. (B.T.Washington, American educator)除了我們自己以外，沒有人能貶低我們。如果我們堅強，就沒有什么不良影響能夠打敗我們。(美國教育家 華盛頓 B T)

17.No pain , no palm; no thorns , no throne ; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (William Penn, British admiral)沒有播種，何來收獲；沒有辛勞，何來成功；沒有磨難，何來榮耀；沒有挫折，何來輝煌。(英國海軍上將 佩恩 W)

18.As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it. (Hugh Black, American writer)水果不僅需要陽光，也需要涼夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不僅需要歡樂，也需要考驗和困難。(美國作家 布萊克 H)

19.Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine 失敗乃成功之母。

20.For man is man and master of his fate. 人就是人，是自己命運的主人。

21.The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates 混混噩噩的生活不值得過。 -- 蘇格拉底

22.None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus 只有每天再度戰勝生活并奪取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。