●A person must never turn his back and try to escape when encountering a dangerous threat. If you do this, it will only double the risk. But if you face it immediately without flinching, the danger will be halved. Never run away from anything, never! - Winston Churchill

●If you convince yourself that you can do something, if it is possible, you can do it, no matter how difficult it is. On the other hand, if you think you can't do even the simplest things, you won't be able to do them, and the mole hills will become unreachable mountains to you. - Emily Guet

●Fear is the most destructive emotion in the world. I fought it and overcame it by helping people who were worse off than myself. I believe that anyone can overcome his fear by doing what he fears and continuing to do it until he has a record of success to back him up. - Eleanor Roosevelt

●He who loses his money loses little, he who loses his health loses much, and he who loses his courage loses everything. Our fears always outweigh our dangers. - Seneca

●Perhaps there is no more important component of personality than firm decision-making. If a little boy wants to become a great person, or to be important in any field in the future, he must be determined not only to overcome obstacles in his career, but also to win after thousands of setbacks and failures. -Theodore Roosevelt

●The word "impossible" can only be found in the dictionary of fools. -Napoleon

● Do what you are afraid of and your fear will disappear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

●Everything in this world is accomplished through hope. A farmer would not sow a grain of corn if he had not hoped that it would grow into seed; a bachelor would not take a wife if he had not hoped to have children; a merchant or craftsman would not work if he had not hoped to gain a profit by it. -Martin Luther

●Perseverance in goal is one of the most necessary sources of strength in character and one of the sharpest tools for success. Without it, genius will work in vain in the confusing path of contradiction and uncertainty. - Sir Charles Defiel

●In real life, every great deed begins with faith and takes the first step with faith. - August von Schlegel

●Faith, you can't do anything about it, but you can't do anything without it. -Samuel Butler

●I believe that strong goals, this sincerity that can enable people to accomplish anything, and this self-loyalty are the biggest factors that make people's hearts successful in their careers. - Frederick B. Robinson

●Action may not necessarily bring happiness; but there will never be happiness without action. -Benjamin Disrae

●Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better off than those who succeed at nothing. -Louis Hammers

●Belief is powerful. Doubt only inhibits ability, but faith is power. - Frederick Robertson

●The longer I live, the more certain I become that enthusiasm is the most important of all characteristics or qualities. Usually, there is a winner and a loser in their skills. There is not much difference in ability and intelligence. If there are two people, starting with equal abilities, intelligence, physical strength and other important qualities, the one who is full of enthusiasm will come out ahead. At the same time, a person with mediocre abilities but enthusiasm can often outperform a person with strong abilities but no enthusiasm. - Frederick Williamson

●The most important thing in life is to have a lofty goal and to use talent and perseverance to achieve it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

●In any industry, the first step to success is to become interested in it. -Sir William Osler

●Strong faith wins strong men and then makes them stronger. - Walter Bekiho

●A person can succeed in almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles Scoub

●If you want to be a force among people, you must develop enthusiasm. People like you more because of your heart and enthusiasm; and you can escape from the boring and unchanging mechanical life, and you will always be disadvantaged.

There can be no other, because that's how human life is, put your soul into your work, and you will not only find that every hour of the day becomes more enjoyable, but you will also find that people believe in you, just as we did with the generator. Believe that electricity is like that. - Jonathan Oden Amore

●Unless a person has confidence himself, he cannot bring confidence to others; only those who are already convinced can convince others. -Matthew Arnold

●Value creates confidence, confidence creates enthusiasm, and enthusiasm conquers the world. - Walter H. Cottingham

●Honesty is part of the power of eloquence; we convince others because we are earnest and sincere. - William Harlett

●Luck is a great teacher, but misfortune is an even greater teacher. Possession indulges the mind, but lack of ability trains and strengthens the mind. - William Harlett

●The birth of every genius must be the product of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Dislari

Wilson-----Have confidence and then go all out--if you have this concept, everything will be successful nine times out of ten...

Einstein------Confidence is the first step towards success”

Believe in yourself first, and then others will believe in you. ——Romain Rolland

Everyone should have self-esteem, self-confidence, and independence, otherwise he is a slave. But self-esteem is not contempt, self-confidence is not complacency, and independence is not independence. ——Xu Teli

We. Loving our nation is the source of our self-confidence - Zhou Enlai

Those who accomplished great things in ancient times not only had extraordinary talents, but also had perseverance - Su Shi

He was born as a hero, but died as a ghost. He still misses Xiang Yu and refuses to cross Jiangdong. ——Li Qingzhao

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Ideal

Ideal is the master of the world .

[Hawthorne]

* A good life cannot be obtained without paying a price.

[Stalin]

* A person can only know his own ability by using his ability in practice.

[Seneca]

* God will never help those who do not do it.

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[Sophocles]

* It is not career for thought, but thought for career.

[Voltaire]

* Great undertakings require unswerving spirit

[Voltaire]

* If a man does not know to which pier he is sailing, then no wind will be the same. Shunfeng

[Seneca]

* Those who talk about ideals without doing anything are hypocritical and hypocritical

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[Democritus]

* Having no ideals and being indecisive is a sad mentality.

[Bacon]

* Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad dinner.

[Bacon]

* The higher the goal, the more valuable the ambition.

[ Ceritis ]

* To a ship sailing blindly, all winds are headwinds.

[Harbert]

* If you don’t have self-confidence, you will never be happy.

[Rossiufko]

* Hope can never be achieved, so people have hope and pursue hope.

[Franklin]

* The poorest person is without talent, and the most base person is without ambition.

[Johnson]

* Living without a goal is like sailing without a compass.

[Kant]

* The person who walks the slowest, as long as he does not lose his goal, can still walk faster than the person who wanders aimlessly

.

[Lessing]

* Hope is the dawn that appears on a stormy night.

[Goethe]

* Hope is the second soul of the unfortunate.

[Goethe]

* People not only want to be rich, but also want to be richer than others.

[British economist Mill.J.S]

* Money is a good servant and an evil master.

[British philosopher Bacon.F.]

* Reality is this shore, ideal is the other shore. There is a rushing river in the middle, and action is a bridge across the river.

[Krylov]

* As long as a person pursues strongly and persistently, he can achieve his goal.

[Stendhal]

* The past belongs to death, and the future belongs to you.

[Shelley]

* When your hopes fail one by one, you must be firm and calm!

[Longfellow]

* People who do not have ideals in life are poor people.

[Turgenev]

* Ideal is the sun of life.

[Dreiser]

* Only those who set great goals for themselves and strive for them with all their strength are happy.

people.

[Kalinin]

* Only for great goals can great power be produced.

[Stalin]

* Confidence is the master of destiny.

[Helen Keller]

* Ambition is the germ of noble behavior.

[English]

* It is never too late to make a decision.

[Podovis]

* As long as a person knows where to go, the whole world will make way for him.

[Starr]

* Without desire in the heart, there is no air on the ground.

[Cotton]

* The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will.

[Confucius]

* If the will is not established, there will be no sailing boat and no reining horse.

[Wang Shouren]

* When water stirs up rocks, they roar, and when people stir up ambition, they become ambitious.

[Qiu Jin]

* Ideal is both an acquisition and a sacrifice.

[Anonymous]

* People who have ideals but no actions can only wait for harvest in dreams.

[Proverb]

* Even if the strings of hope are broken, we must use silent songs to pursue the future.

[Proverb]

* The ideal of life is for an ideal life.

[Zhang Wentian]

* Stick to your doctrine, which is more important than life; you would rather life disappear, as long as your reputation can remain

[Petofi]

* Whoever wastes their years will lose their youth and life will abandon them.

[Hugo]

* Without great character, there would be no great people, not even great artists,

great actors.

[Romain Rolland]

* A day of hard work can lead to a long night of sleep. A life of hard work will lead to a happy sleep.

[Leonardo da Vinci]

* Being dissatisfied with oneself is the fundamental characteristic of any truly talented person.

[Chekhov]

* If you want to succeed, you should use perseverance as your good friend, experience as your adviser, caution as your brother

Hope for the Sentinels.

[Edison]

* Do you want to be a happy person? I hope you will learn to bear hardships.

[Turgenev]

* The most difficult profession is how to be a human being.

[Jose Martí]

* Wisdom, hard work and genius are higher than nobles and wealth.

[Beethoven]

* Ideal is the guiding star. Without ideals, there is no firm direction, and without direction, there is no life.

There is no life.

[Leon Tolstoy]

* Great goals form great characters.

[Emmons]

* If you are determined, nothing can be done in the world.

[Wang Yangming]

* Fate is ambition.

[Zhu Xi]

* Ambition and enthusiasm are the assistants of great achievements.

[Goethe]

* Push your career, don’t let your career push you.

[Einstein]

Death

When a person lives to the age of seventy-five, he will always have to think about death, and we will not feel uneasy about it

. The sun seems to be sinking, but it is not sinking but is constantly shining.

——Goethe

When you have solved all the mysteries of life, you will long for death, because it is just another mystery of life.

Life and death are the two most noble manifestations of bravery - Kahlil Gibran

Life and death are irreversible, you can only enjoy the time in between. The dark background of death

Brings out the brilliance of life - Santayana

To live in the heart of a living person is to not die - Campbell

Death is not the greatest loss in life, but death is even while living - Cousins

People should not be afraid of death, what they should be afraid of is not living truly - Aureliano

Si

Whoever is afraid of death is no longer alive - Zuo Yimo

Pain and death are part of life. To abandon them is to abandon life itself - Harv

Locke Ellis

Death is not the misfortune of the dead, but the misfortune of the living - Epicurus

After death silenced a great voice, his ordinary words became words of wisdom

Browning

Death may be free . ——But it was earned in a lifetime——Manlius

Fear of death is more terrifying than death——Senz

To despise oneself and betray oneself by death, Denying one's beliefs is the greatest punishment and the greatest sin in the world.

It is better to suffer the pain and disaster in the world than to reach this point

——Romain Rolland

Before he died, Rufu had experienced many deaths. Horrible - Caesar

If an old man can have a wide range of interests, learn to care about others, and integrate his life into the life of the whole world, he will Like a drop of water falling into the sea, it slowly forgets its own existence. In the end, there will be no fear of death anymore - Russell

Happiness

Happiness lies in living for others.

No matter how long the night is, day will always come - Shakespeare

Only the happiness of the entire human race is your happiness - Di Cigen

It makes people Happiness is not physical strength or money, but justice and versatility - Democrines

Spect

The joy of doing good is the only reliable happiness in life - Leto Erstair

When you can feel what you want to feel and say what you feel

this is a very happy time - Tassie Lun

As long as you have one reasonable thing to do, your life will be particularly beautiful - Ein

Stein

If we cannot build happiness If we live a life without any right to enjoy happiness; just as we have no right to enjoy wealth without creating wealth - Bernard Shaw

Happiness has no tomorrow and no yesterday, it does not miss it The past does not yearn for the future; it only has the present - Turgenev

The arrival of a happy era will not be like tomorrow after sleeping all night - Bly Hitt

Happiness can depend on fantasy, but happiness depends on reality - Chamfort

The happiest person is the person who can connect the end and the starting point of his life - Goethe

The happiness of serious people does not lie in frivolous companions such as romance, amusement and laughter, but in perseverance and perseverance - Cicero

All we can enjoy is the joy of giving - Muck

Don't tell unfortunate humanity about your own happiness - Brautage

Freedom

The purpose of freedom is to create freedom for others - Malamud

Justice and freedom are mutually exclusive. Once separated, both will be lost - Fulk

Freedom should be an opportunity to make yourself better - Camus

Morality is the defender of freedom - Smits

Freedom of thought is the highest independence - Fiske

Liberty is the power to do everything permitted by law - Montesquieu

The freedom of one citizen is bounded by the freedom of another citizen - - "Declaration of the French National Convention

In order to enjoy freedom, we must control ourselves - Ren Erf

Order without freedom and without order Freedom is equally destructive - Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt

As long as a person claims to be free, he will also feel that he is restricted.

If

you dare to claim that you are restricted, you will feel that you are free - Goethe

Freedom is lost not only through the abuse of power, but also through the abuse of freedom ——McChison

If freedom leads to indulgence, the devil of tyranny will take the opportunity to invade——Washington

An unbridled life is not a free life——Anonymous

Those who are willing to be slaves do not know the power of freedom - Baker

Those who give up basic freedom in exchange for peace will eventually lose their freedom and will not be safe -

——Franklin

If everything was left to me, I would feel lost in the abyss of freedom——Igor

Stravinsky

Lie

Life cannot bloom bright flowers from lies - Heine

Rumors are things that get thicker the more they are spread - M.H.W.

I would rather be killed by one before everyone else When people say bad things, they don’t want to be said bad things by everyone before one person

Bad words - Howell

It is better to say 'I don't know' than to lie - Magen

Whenever a man declares that all human beings are bad, you can rest assured that he is acting as the exception

Gerrold

A promise is as fast as a horse, but the truth can catch up with it - Spanish proverb

Those who believe lies will be destroyed before the truth - Herbart

Flattery never comes from a great heart - Balzac

Flattery can also cause coordination, but this coordination is caused by servile shameless sin or deception

—— Spinoza

Sometimes people also hate flattery, but they only hate the way it is done.——Lalo

Shivko

give He who defends himself betrays himself - Tolstoy

Silent innocence often touches people's hearts more than words - Shakespeare

Friendship

Friendship is a kind of gentle and calm love, guided by reason, formed by habit, arising from long-term acquaintance and common agreement, without jealousy , and no fear - Homer

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity - Kahlil Gibran

True friendship is like phosphorus - the darkest around you The brightest moment - D.M.

True friendship is a plant that grows slowly - Washington

Friendship produces happiness, civilization brings harmony - Victor Hugo

Best friends are like different bodies but one mind - Aristotle

The most beautiful thing in the world is to have a few serious friends with upright minds and hearts

Friend - Einstein

You may forget the person who laughed with you; but you will never forget the person who cried with you

- Kahlil Gibran

He who has neither friends nor enemies is just a common man - Rafat

Treat everyone equally, be confidant to a few, and do no wrong to anyone - Shakespeare

Bia

Among all kinds of loneliness, people are most afraid of spiritual loneliness - Balzac

Where a single person may perish, two people Together we may be saved - Balzac

Joy

All the joys in life are the joys of creation: love, genius, action - all depend on creation

A ball of fire shoots out - Romain Rolland

True happiness is inner, it can only be found in the human heart - Bremer

The so-called inner happiness Happiness is the joy felt by a person living a sound, normal and harmonious life - Romain Rolland Laughter is a sedative without side effects - Guerra So

Optimism sees a hope in a disaster, and pessimism sees a hope in a hope

Disaster - Proverb

Happiness is not inherently bad, but some producers of happiness bring about many times more troubles than happiness

Epicurus

Not once Happiness is trouble-free - Fulai

Those who have toothache think that there is one kind of person who is the happiest in the world, and that is the person who does not have toothache -

Bernard Shaw

There is no cosmetic in the world that can make people more beautiful than happiness - Breton

Only faith makes happiness real - Montaigne

The greatest happiness in life is not What you possess depends on the process of pursuing something - Bensheng

You should not pursue all kinds of happiness, but only pursue noble happiness - Democritus

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Doing good is the only truly happy action in life - Sidney

No one feels more profoundly miserable than the person who laughs too much - Richter

Greatness

Anything that appears much higher when we compare it with other things is great

Chernyshevsky

A great man is a born child. When he died, he dedicated his great childhood to the world - Rabindranath Tagore

A great goal Forming a great character - Edmus

Every person who is loyal to the future and sacrifices for a better future is a statue of heather

Vuni Qi

Real great men are often ordinary; their actions are neither artificial nor pretentious - Ke

Keil Lin

Have the courage to Those who try to solve new problems in their own lives are the ones who make society great! Those who just live by the rules are not making society progress,

They are just keeping it going - Rabindranath Tagore

The greatest people are not those who despise the small things in daily life, but He is someone who pays careful attention to these things and improves them - Smiles

You can't expect to be great and comfortable at the same time - Barry

Ambition and enthusiasm are the supporting wings of great deeds - Goethe

Nobility is the echo of a great soul - Langanas

A great person has two hearts Heart: One heart bleeds, another heart tolerates - Kahlil Gibran

Without simplicity, kindness and truth, there is no greatness - Tolstoy

Method

A person who loves practice but does not pay attention to science is like a sailor entering a ship without a rudder or compass. He is never sure where he is going - Leonardo da Vinci

Good methods can enable us to better utilize our innate talents, while poor methods may

hinder the development of talents - Bernard

thinks People who come up with new ideas are always said to be whimsical before they come up with their ideas

Mark Twain One of the dangers - Bacon

Asking the right questions often equals solving more than half of the problem - Heisenberg

Assumptions always precede knowledge - Humboldt

Before you go in, think about whether you can come out - Arabic proverb

In all difficult negotiations, you should not hope to sow and reap at the same time; rather, you should be prepared for everything

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Things are prepared so that they can gradually mature - Bacon

Without some bold and unbridled speculation, progress in knowledge is generally impossible - Gauss

Every good thing starts hard - Spencer

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you may think that all problems are nails -

——Masler

The steps are not designed for rest, they are just for people to step on one foot to make the other higher——

Huxley

A poor craftsman complains about his tools——Gerry

Never give up on yourself.

Just walk, as long as you walk, power will naturally arise - Fabre

Having imagination but no discernment is the most terrifying thing in the world - Goethe

People must live independently , learn useful skills - Cade

Difficulty

Nature traps people in darkness, forcing people to always yearn for the light - Goethe

Danger It is the touchstone of life - Shirokov

Only in suffering can one know oneself - Hildy

Adversity and hardship are the highest school for tempering one's personality - Liang Qichao

If you don’t know pain, you are not a good man - Hugo

Difficulties are a severe mentor - Baker

Difficulties arise from the efforts to overcome difficulties - - Smiles

Sorrow inspires genius - Horace

Not all things that are helpful to you are easily available - Ferguson

The most difficult time is when success is not far away - Napoleon

If there are no obstacles in life, what else is there for people to do - Bismarck

Everything is possible Before maturity, everything has a bitter taste - Cyrus

Thought

A person who can think is really a person with boundless power - Balzac

People must have three minds, one born with them, one acquired from books, and one acquired from life

Montaigne

Thought - the free spirit - Shakespeare

Without freedom of thought, there is no science and no truth - Renan

Wise men are guided by reason, ordinary people are guided by experience; The beast is guided by intuition -

Cicero

The most rare courage is the courage of thought - France

Our life is like execution , Thought is the guide; without a guide, everything will stop

. Goals will be lost and strength will be reduced to nothing - Goethe

Thoughts are the property of those who enjoy them - Emerson

Those who kill their ideas are the greatest murders Criminal - Romain Rolland

One should strive to think a lot rather than know a lot - Democritus

Analyzing the obvious requires extraordinary thought - Whitehead Virtue

Thoughts, like love and death, cannot be replaced by others - Rothstein

Beauty

Beauty is a symbol of moral goodness - Kant

If your heart is very young, you will often have many dreams. In the thick dark clouds,

You will still catch the golden sunshine - Svolen

Beauty comes from the depths of the soul - Belinsky

Beautiful things are eternal joy - Keats

Beautiful words are the brilliance of thoughts - Longinus

Passion and expression are beauty. A face without passion and expression is a flaw; let it be smeared with makeup and powder, flattered by you, only fools can admire it - Blake

Beauty must be clean, Innocent and white, both in appearance and even more so in the heart—

—Montesquieu

We live only to discover beauty. Everything else is a form of waiting - Kahlil Gibran

If you sing about beauty, you will have an audience even if you are in the center of the desert - Kahlil Gibran

What can directly touch the soul is beauty.

Beauty immediately permeates the imagination with an inner joy

and satisfaction - Edison

Reason conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood, and taste produces the emotions of beauty and ugliness, and good and evil. ——Hugh

Mo

If you want to turn a perceptual person into a rational person, the only way is to first make him an aesthetic person

—— Schiller

Pursue beauty without blaspheming beauty, this kind of love is legitimate - Democritus

Youth

Ah, youth! youth! Perhaps the whole secret of your beauty lies not in being able to do everything, but in wishing to do everything - Turgenev

There is no loss as great as the loss of spring - - Engler

Everything in youth is a test - Stevenson

No one will feel that youth is disappearing; but anyone will feel that youth is disappearing; Already

gone - Little Seneca

Spring is the new season of the year in nature, and the new season of life is only once

in a lifetime Youth - Cicero

Youth is not a period of life, but a condition of the soul - Seneca

Youth is something that cannot be hidden for long - Shakespeare

People

All beautiful things on earth come from the sun, and all beautiful things come from

People - Plishvin

Man is the center of all things, the world. Man is the center of all things, the axis of the world

——Bacon

Gorgeous clothes are made by tailors Yes, official ranks and titles are determined by the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites. Grade

is nothing but a symbol of currency. And people are gold - Burns

said that people are a complex of strength and weakness, light and blindness, smallness and greatness. This said

Man is a person. A complex combination of strength and weakness, light and blindness, smallness and greatness

It is not to blame people, but to define them - Diderot

The most difficult profession Just how to be a human being - Jose Martí

To be a real human being, it is not enough to have a logical mind, but also to have a strong temperament

Stendhal

People are not empty bottles into which any liquid can be poured - Pisarev

It is important to let others know what you agree with; it is also important to let others know what you oppose. Equally important

M.H.W

People live for a certain belief - Claire

Belief is not a kind of knowledge. Faith is a kind of behavior, it only has meaning when it is practiced

——Romain Rolland

Faith is a bird, when the dawn is still dark, it touches the dawn and sings - Rabindranath Tagore

Doubt and faith, both are necessary. Doubt can destroy yesterday's faith and open the way for tomorrow's faith - Romain Rolland

Happiness

Happiness lies in living for others.

No matter how long the night is, day will always come - Shakespeare

Only the happiness of the entire human race is your happiness - Di Cigen

It makes people Happiness is not physical strength or money, but justice and versatility - Democrines

Spect

The joy of doing good is the only reliable happiness in life - Leto Erstair

When you can feel what you want to feel and say what you feel

this is a very happy time - Tassie Lun

As long as you have one reasonable thing to do, your life will be particularly beautiful - Ein

Stein

If we cannot build happiness If we live a life without any right to enjoy happiness; just as we have no right to enjoy wealth without creating wealth - Bernard Shaw

Happiness has no tomorrow and no yesterday, it does not miss it The past does not yearn for the future; it only has the present - Turgenev

The arrival of a happy era will not be like tomorrow after sleeping all night - Bly Hitt

Happiness can depend on fantasy, but happiness depends on reality - Chamfort

The happiest person is the person who can connect the end and the starting point of his life - Goethe

The happiness of serious people does not lie in frivolous companions such as romance, amusement and laughter, but in perseverance and perseverance - Cicero

All we can enjoy is the joy of giving - Muck

Don't tell unfortunate humanity about your own happiness - Brautage

Love

The heart is not where it lives, but where it loves - British proverb

The noble element in love is no less than the gentle element, and the power to make people upward is no less than the power to make people upward.

People's sluggish strength can sometimes inspire other virtues - Voltaire

Although the joy of love is extremely sweet, it can only be found where glory and virtue exist

Survival - Gurnell

Loving all mankind may be easy; falling seriously in love with one person is difficult - Proverb

Those who regard love as an ideal will not have a real ideal - Anonymous

Love sublimates the human heart's longing to the state of perfection - Dante

No clothing can compare to Love fits better; no adornment is more charming than love. Some people say that without beauty, there is no love. In fact, it is the opposite: without love, there is no beauty - Anonymous

Without the sun, flowers will not bloom; without love, there will be no happiness; without women There would be no

love, no mother, neither a poet nor a hero - Gorky

Love is like a leaf, it turns green when people ignore it, and it turns green when people ignore it. Buds are revealed in patience - how beautiful

Fang

Love is