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。

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。

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 (来源：英语麦当劳www.EnglishCN.com)
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

The good seaman is known in bad weather.
惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。

Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman
不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。 -- 纽曼

Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving
人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。 -- 欧文

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。-- 史蒂文森

While there is life there is hope.
一息若存，希望不灭。 -- 英国谚语

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein (来源：英语博客http://space.englishcn.com)
不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。 -- 爱因斯坦

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin
人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。 -- 卓别林

Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.
不管追求什么目标，都应坚持不懈。

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King
我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。 -- 马丁 · 路德 · 金

Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin
能量加毅力可以征服一切。 -- 富兰克林

Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求则无所获。

Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle
生命不止，奋斗不息。 -- 卡莱尔

A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.
千里之行，始于足下。

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. -- Swetchine
只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。 -- 斯威特切尼

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw
在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机会，他们便自己创造机会。 -- 萧伯纳

A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison
强者能同命运的风暴抗争。 -- 爱迪生

He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe
谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。 -- 歌德

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore
胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。 -- 穆尔

Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。

Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe
失误是进取的代价。 -- 歌德

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了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。 -- 梭罗

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- J. Burroughs
一个人可以失败很多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。 -- 巴勒斯