－john ray（美國科學家雷伊）
i don’t wait for moods. you accomplish nothing if you do that. your mind must know it has got down to work.
我從不等待情緒的來臨。如果你一味等待，就將一事無成。你必須牢記，只有動手才能有所得。
－pearl buck（美國作家賽珍珠）
experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. we cannot learn men from books.
經驗是思想之子，思想是行動之子，了解他人不可以書本為據。
－benjamin disraeli（英國政治家狄斯雷利）
the measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
衡量一個人真正的品質，要看他在知道永遠也不會被人發現的情況下做些什麼。
－thomas bobington macaulay（英國歷史學家麥考萊）
take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
考慮是不要匆忙，但是一旦行動的時刻來到，就要毫不猶豫地投身行動。
－john albion andrew（美國廢奴運動領導人安德魯）
love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
知識總是從愛好開始，猶如光總是從火開始一樣。
－thomas carlyle（英國歷史學家卡萊爾）
people need to know one another to be at their honest best.
人們需要相互了解才能達到最誠實的境界。
－(robbins staca（英國作家斯達卡）
admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
要私下告誡朋友，但是要公開誇獎朋友。
－publius syrus（敘利亞作家西拉丁）
all happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
所有幸福的家庭都相似，而每個不幸的家庭各不同。
－leo tolstoy（俄國文學家托爾斯泰）
friendship is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.
友誼既是快樂之源泉，又是健康之要素。
－ralph waldo emerson（美國思想家愛默生）
if you don’t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.
如果你年輕時沒有學會思考，那就永遠學不會思考。
－thomas edison（美國發明家愛迪生）
whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
不管是誰，匆匆忙忙只能說明他不能從事他所從事的工作。
－philip dormer chesterfield（英國政治家切斯特菲爾德）
it takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable.
要做到與人融洽相處，需要仔細地思考，認真地努力和痛下決心。
－ralph waldo emerson（美國思想家愛默生）
when work is a pleasure, life is joy! when work is duty, life is slavery.
工作是一種樂趣時，生活是一種享受！工作是一種義務時，生活則是一種苦役。
－maxim gorky（俄國作家高爾基）
it is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
不能愛哪行才幹哪行，要乾哪行愛哪行。
－winston churchill（英國首相，邱吉爾）
a man is called selfish, not pursuing his own good, but neglecting his neighbour’s.
追求自身的利益，不是自私；只有忽視他人的利益，才是自私。
－richard whately (美國牧師惠特利)
people need to know one another to be at their honest best.
人們需要相互了解才能達到最誠實的境界。