英文名句
1、 Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without!
寧靜來自內心，勿向外尋求！
2、Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
不嫉妒、不貪婪、沒有私慾，在任何情況下，內心都持有那份寧靜，這就是高尚！
3、He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquility becomes free from fear and free from sin.
當一個人品嚐到孤獨與恬靜的美味時，便不會產生恐懼的心理和犯罪的行為。
4、The cause of suffering is selfish desire, whether it is the desire for pleasure, desire for revenge, or simply desire for a long life.
痛苦的根源來自私慾，無論企求快樂、報復，或只企求長壽，都會導致痛苦。
5、Desire causes suffering because it can never be completely gratified.
慾望會導致痛苦，其主要原因乃是慾望永遠無法完全滿足。
6、To be attached to one thing （to a certain view） and to look down upon other thing （views） as inferior--this wise men call a fetter.
固執某一件事物（或某種見解），而輕視其他事物（或見解）是卑鄙的，智者稱它為「束縛」。
7、Bonds do not exist for those to whom naught is dear or not dear.
沒有貪愛和憎恨的人，就沒有束縛。
8、There is no fire like lust, no grip like hate; there is no net like delusion, no river like craving.
貪心是最猛烈的火，憎恨是最壞的執著，迷惑和錯誤的見解是最難脫逃的網，
9、One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I’ll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
一個人應該捨棄憤怒，拔除傲慢，超越所有的束縛。不執著心靈和物質的人，內心可以得到真正的安寧，而不受外在的影響。
10、All desires have in them little pleasant taste but rather much potential suffering.
所有的欲望，只有小小的甜味，而卻隱藏著相當多的苦頭。
11、The sensible man is not influenced by what other people think.
明智的人不為別人的想法所影響。
12、Do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay.
不要被任何報導、傳統、或流言所左右。
13、Do not believe what is passed from mouth; Do not believe rumors ; Do not believe the infallibility of texts.
不要輕信別人的道聽塗說，不要相信謠言，不要以為書是絕對可靠的。
14、May all beings be happy and secure ; may their mind be contented!
願所有的人都幸福安寧，內心滿足！
15、Let one’s thoughts of boundless love pervade the whole world--above, below and across--without any hatred, without any enmity.
讓我們心中無限的愛能遍佈整個世界，無論在宇宙的那一個角落，都沒有絲毫的怨恨和敵意。
16、May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
願我努力精進，勤奮不懈；願我有耐心能容忍並寬恕別人的過錯，願我能信守自己立下的諾言。
17、May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
願我能堅決勇敢，有毅力和恒心。
18、He who sees other’s faults is ever irritable, the corruptions of such as one grows. He is far from the destruction of the corruptions.
尋找別人過失，而且容易發怒的人，苦惱越來越多。離開沒有煩惱的境界也越來越遠。
19、The wise man builds no hopes for the future, entertains no regrets for the past.
聰明的人不奢望未來，也不追悔過去。
20、Only things with which a man identifies himself are able to disturb his mind-only that which concern “ myself ”can give me grief.
執著自我的人，心智將會受到干擾。處處只考慮自我的人，將給自己帶來憂愁。
21、The world is in continuous flux and is impermanent.
世界變遷不已，並非是常久不變的。
22、Change, impermanence is characteristic of life.
變化和無常是生命的特徵。
23、Let him be cordial in his ways and refined in conduct ; thereby full of joy he will make an end of ill.
待人熱誠，舉止文雅，只要每天充滿著喜悅，苦惱就會消失得無影？。
24、He who wishes his own happiness by causing pain to others is not released from hatred, being himself entangled in the tangles of hatred.
為了追求快樂，而把快樂建築在別人的痛苦上，便會受到怨恨的困擾，而無法擺脫怨恨。
25、Look at every one equally, irrespective of rich or poor, noble or of low caste.
平等地對待每一個人，而不論其貧富或貴賤。
26、The attendant should make the patient happy and hopeful.
探視病人應使患者充滿希望和快樂。
27、Those who adhere to the principles of wisdom, have right attitudes, and true to their words and discharge their duties with responsibility are loved by people.
人們愛戴忠於真理、態度良好、言而有信、對職位負責的人。
28、When a man speaks or acts with good intention. Then happiness follows him like his shadow that never leaves him.
當一個人的言談和舉止懷著良善動機，快樂便像影子般地跟隨他。
29、From moment to moment, a wise man removes his own impurities, as a smith removes the dross of silver.
聰明的人時常清除內心的污垢，就如同工匠清理銀礦中的雜質。
30、Make haste in doing good, restrain your mind from evil. Whosoever is slow in doing well, his mind delights in evil?
及時行善，以免你的心裡再起壞念頭。凡是不能及時行善的人，內心常會生起惡念。
英文勵志文章
《Today I begin a new life》
Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediority.
Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard,for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me,generation upon generation.
Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me.
The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.
Yet I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts which will guide through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed but a dream.
Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle. Just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure. Failure, like pain, is alien to my life. In the past I accepted it as I accepted pain. Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward.
Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity. Yet within my allotted time I must practice the art of patience for nature acts never in haste. To create the olive, king of all trees, a hundred years is required. An onion plant is old in nine weeks. I have lived as an onion plant. It has not pleased me. Now I wouldst become the greatest of olive trees and, in truth, the greatest of salesman.
And how will this be accomplished? For I have neither the knowledge nor the experience to achieve the greatness and already I have stumbled in ignorance and fallen into pools of self-pity. The answer is simple. I will commence my journey unencumbered with either the weight of unnecessary knowledge or the handicap of meaningless experience. Nature already has supplied me with knowledge and instinct far greater than any beast in the forest and the value of experience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.
In truth, experience teaches thoroughly yet her course of instruction devours men's years so the value of her lessons diminishes with the time necessary to acquire her special wisdom. The end finds it wasted on dead men. Furthermore, experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow.
Only principles endure and these I now possess, for the laws that will lead me to greatness are contained in the words of these scrolls. What they will teach me is more to prevent failure than to gain success, for what is success other than a state of mind? Which two, among a thouand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have successed lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is --I will form good habits and become their slave.
As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. I have surrendered my free will to the years of accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison my future. My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.
I will form good habits and become their slave.
And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls, it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. For it is another of nature's laws that only a habit can subdue another habit. So, in order for these written words to perform their chosen task, I must discipline myself with the first of my new habits which is as follows:
I will read each scroll for thirty days in this prescribed manner, before I proceed to the next scroll.
First, I will read the words in silence when I arise. Then, I will read the words in silence after I have partaken of my midday meal. Last, I will read the words again just before I retire at day's end, and most important, on this occasion I will read the words aloud.
On the next day I will repeat this procedure, and I will continue in like manner for thirty days. Then, I will turn to the next scroll and repeat this procedure for another thirty days. I will continue in this manner until I have lived with each scroll for thirty days and my reading has become habit.
And what will be accomplished with this habit? Herein lies the hidden secret of all man's accomplishments. As I repeat the words daily they will soon become a part of my active mind, but more important, they will also seep into my other mind, that mysterious source which never sleeps, which creates my dreams, and often makes me act in ways I do not comprehend.
As the words of these scrolls are consumed by my mysterious mind I will begin to awake, each morning, with a vitality I have never known before. My vigor will increase, my enthusiasm will rise, my desire to meet the world will overcome every fear I once knew at sunrise, and I will be happier than I ever believed it possible to be in this world of strife and sorrow.
Eventually I will find myself reacting to all situations which confront me as I was commanded in the scrolls to react, and soon these actions and reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes easy.
Thus a new and good habit is born, for when an act becomes easy through constant repetiton it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will.
Today I begin a new life.
And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not , I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.
As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I allow the brevity of each scroll nor the simplicity of its words to cause me to treat the scroll's message lightly. Thousands of grapes are pressed to fill one jar with wine, and the grapeskin and pulp are tossed to the birds. So it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered and tossed to the wind.Only the pure truth lies distilled in the words to come. I will drink as instructed and spill not a drop. And the seed of success I will swallow.
Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not , for today I am a new man, with a new life.
《今天，我天始新的生活》
今天，我爬出滿是失敗創傷的老繭。
今天，我重新來到這個世上，我出生在葡萄園中，國內的葡萄任人享用。
今天，我要從最高最密的藤上摘下智慧的果實，這葡萄藤是好幾代前的智者種下的。
今天，我要品嘗葡萄的美味，還要吞下每一位成功的種子，讓新生命在我心裡萌牙。
我選擇的道路充滿機遇，也有辛酸與絕望．失敗的同伴數不勝數，
然而，我不會像他們一樣失敗，因為我手中持有航海圖，可以領我越過洶湧的大海，抵達夢中的彼岸．
失敗不再是我奮鬥的代價．它和痛苦都將從我的生命中消失。失敗和我，就像水火一樣，互不相容。我不再像過去一樣接受它們。我要在智慧的指引下，走出失敗的陰影，步入富足、健康、快樂的樂園，這些都超出了我以往的夢想． 我要是能長生不老，就可以學到一切，但我不能永生，所以，在有限的人生裡，我必須學會忍耐的藝術，因為大自然的行為一向是從容不迫的．造物主創造樹中之王橄攤樹需要一百年的時間，而洋蔥經過短短的九個星期就會枯老．我不留戀從前那種洋蔥式的生活，我要成為萬樹之王——橄欖樹，
怎麼可能？我既沒有淵博的知識，又沒有豐富的經驗，況且，我曾一度跌入愚昧與自憐的深淵．答案很簡單。我不會讓所謂的知識或者經驗妨礙我的行程．造物生已經賜予我足夠的知識和本能，這份天賦是其它生物望塵莫及的。經驗的價值往往被高估了，人老的時候開口講的多是糊塗話．說實在的，經驗確實能教給我們很多東西，只是這需要花費太長的時間．等到人們獲得智慧的時候，其價值已隨著時間的消逝而減少了．結果往往是這樣，經驗豐富了，人也餘生無多．經驗和時尚有關，適合某一時代的行為,並不尋味著在今天仍然行得通。
只有原則是持久的，而我現在正擁有了這些原則．這些可以指引我走向成功的原則全寫在這幾張羊皮卷裡．它教我如何避免失敗，
事實上，成功與失敗的最大分野，來自不同的習慣。好習慣是開啟成員的鑰匙，壞習慣則是一扇向失敗敞開的門。因此，我首先要做的便是養成良好的習慣，全心全意去實行。
小時候．我常會感情用事，長大成人了，我要用良好的習慣代替一時的衝動。我的自由意志屈服于多年養成的惡習，它們威脅著我的前途。我的行為受到品味、情感、偏見、欲望、愛、恐懼、環境和習慣的影響，其中最厲害的就是習慣。因此．如果我必須受習慣支配的話，那就讓我受好習慣的支配。那些壞習慣必須戒除，我要在新的田地裡播種好的種子。 我要養成良好的習慣，全心全意去實行。
這不是輕而易舉的事情，要怎樣才能做到呢，靠這些羊皮卷就能做到。因為每～卷裡都寫著一個原則，可以摒除—項壞習慣，換取一個好習慣，使人進步，走向成功。這也是自然法則之一，只有一種習慣才能抑制另一種習慣。所以，為了走好我選擇的道路，我必須養成的第一個習慣
每張羊皮卷用三十天的時間閱讀，然後再進人下一卷。 清晨即起，默默誦讀；午飯之後，再次默讀；夜晚睡前，高聲朗讀。
第二天的情形完全一樣。這樣重複三十天后，就可以打開下一卷了。每一卷都依照同樣的方法讀上三十天，久而久之，它們就成為一種習慣了。
這些習慣有什麼好處呢？這裡隱含著人類成功的秘訣。當我每天重複這些話的時候，它何成了我精神活動的一部分，更重要的是，它們滲入我的心靈。擁是個神秘的世界，永不靜止，創造夢境，在不知不覺中影響我的行為。
當這些羊皮卷上的文字，被我奇妙的心靈完全吸收之後，我每天都會充滿活力地醒來。我從來沒有這樣精力充沛過。我更有活力，更有熱情，要向世界挑戰的欲望克服了一切恐懼與不安。在這個充滿爭鬥和悲傷的世界裡，我竟然比以前更快活。 最後，我會發現自己有了應付一切情況的辦法。不久，這些辦法就能運用自如．因為，任何方法，只要多練習，就會變得簡單易行。
經過多次重複，一種看似複雜的行為就變得輕而易舉，實行起來，就會有無限的樂趣，有了樂趣，出於人之天性，我就更樂意常去實行。於是，一種好的習慣便誕生了．習慣成為自然。既是一種好的習慣，也就是我的意原。
今天，我天始新的生活．
我鄭重地發誓，絕不讓任何事情妨礙我新生命的成長。在閱讀這些羊卷的時候，我絕不浪費一天的時間，因為時光一去不返，失去的日子是無法彌補的。我也絕不打破每天閱讀的習慣。事實上，每天在這些新習慣上花費少許時間，相對於可能獲得的愉樂與成功而言，只是微不足道的代價。 當我閱讀羊皮卷中的字句時，絕不能出為文字的精煉而忽視內容的深沉。一瓶葡萄美酒需要千百顆果子釀制而成，果皮和渣子拋給小鳥。葡萄的智慧代代相傳，有些被過濾，有些被淘汰，隨風飄逝。只有純正的真理才是永恆的。它們就精煉在我要閱讀的文字中。我要依照指示，絕不浪費，飲下成功的種子。
今天，我的老繭化為塵埃。我在人群中昂首闊步，不會有人認出我來，因為我不再是過去的自己、我已擁有新的生命。
英文格言
1、A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
——Joseph Addison（美國作家艾迪生）
2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道錢的價值，就想辦法去借錢試試。
——Benjamin Franklin（美國總統佛蘭克林）
3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend,
experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，當以恒心為良友，以經驗為參謀，以謹慎為兄弟，以希望為哨兵。
——Thomas Edison（美國發明家愛迪生）
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康當然比金錢更為重要，因為我們所賴以獲得金錢的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson（英國作家詹森）
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能處處尋求快樂的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau（美國作家梭羅）
6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有時候一個人為不花錢得到的東西付出的代價最高。
——Albert Einstein（美國科學家愛因斯坦）
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur（法國化學家巴斯勒）
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世間所有的榮華富貴不如一個好朋友。
——Voltaire（法國思想家伏爾泰）
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身體之間存在極大的不同。
——William Hazlitt（英國批評家散文家哈滋裡特）
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
懷著希望去旅行比抵達目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在於工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson（英國作家史蒂文生）
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一個人越偉大，對表揚和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs（美國博物學家巴勒斯）
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以說成功要靠三件事才能贏得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy（英國詩人小說家哈代）
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取決於知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu（法國思想家孟德斯鳩）
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圓滿完成簡單工作的人，才能夠輕而易舉的完成困難的事。
——Friedrich Schiller（德國劇作家詩人席勒）
15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
你必須相信自己，這是成功的關鍵。
——Charles Chaplin（美國演員卓別林）
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
無論何事，只要對它有無限的熱情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab（美國實業家施瓦布）
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.
凡是決心取得勝利的人是從來不說“不可能的”。
——Bonapart Napoleon（法國皇帝拿破崙）
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
進步是今天的活動，明天的保證。
——Emerson（美國思想家愛默生）
20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。
——Richard Nixon（美國總統尼克森）
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇跡有時候是會發生的，但是你得為之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann（愛爾蘭總統魏茨曼）
22、It never will rain roses.（名人名言 ）
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不會掉下玫瑰來，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必須自己種植。
——G. Eliot（英國小說家艾略特）
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天賦，勤勉會使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉會補足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds（美國散文家雷諾茲）
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成偉大的事業不在於體力，而在於堅韌不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson（英國作家和評論家詹森）
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味著終身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev（俄國化學家門捷列耶夫）
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，與其說是條件不夠，不如說是由於決心不夠。
——（La Racheforcauld（法國作家羅切福考爾德）
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大膽挑戰，世界總會讓步。如果有時候你被它打敗了，不斷地挑戰，它總會屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray（英國小說家薩克雷）
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都應盡力而為，半途而廢永遠不行。
——R.H. Stoddard（美國詩人斯托達德）
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一個人可以失敗多次，但是只要他沒有開始責怪旁人，他還不是一個失敗者。
——J.Burroughs（美國博物學家巴勒斯）
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
從一個國家的廣告可以看出這個國家的理想。
——Norman Douglas（英國作家道格拉斯）
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
實現明天理想的唯一障礙是今天的疑慮。
——Franklin Roosevelt（美國總統羅斯福）
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法實現之前是個怪人。
——Mark Twain（美國作家馬克？吐溫）
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是確定一個偉大的目標，並決心實現它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德國詩人、劇作家歌德）
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世間的大多數煩惱都是由那些想成為重要人物的人惹出來的。
——George Eliot（英國小說家艾略特）
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你懷疑自己，那麼你的立足點確實不穩固了。
——Ibsen（挪威劇作家易卜生）
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明燈。沒有理想，就沒有堅定的方向；
沒有方向，就沒有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory（俄國作家托爾斯泰）
37、Ideal are like the stars --- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想猶如天上的星星，我們猶如水手，雖不能達到天上，
但是我們的航程可憑藉它指引。
——Carl Schurz（美國政治家舒爾茨）
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生應該樹立目標，否則你的精神會白白浪費。
——R. Peters（美國法學家彼得斯）
39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
不要放棄你的幻想。當幻想沒有了以後，你還可以生存，但是你雖生猶死。
——Mark Twain（馬克 吐溫）
40、Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失敗，就放棄你原來決心想要達到的目的。
——Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亞）
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想與現實之間，動機與行為之間，總有一道陰影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.愛略特）
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一個人還有所追求，他就沒有老。直到後悔取代了夢想，一個人才算老。
——J. Barrymore（巴里莫爾）
這不是輕而易舉的事情，要怎樣才能做到呢，靠這些羊皮卷就能做到。因為每～卷裡都寫著一個原則，可以摒除—項壞習慣，換取一個好習慣，使人進步，走向成功。這也是自然法則之一，只有一種習慣才能抑制另一種習慣。所以，為了走好我選擇的道路，我必須養成的第一個習慣
每張羊皮卷用三十天的時間閱讀，然後再進人下一卷。 清晨即起，默默誦讀；午飯之後，再次默讀；夜晚睡前，高聲朗讀。
第二天的情形完全一樣。這樣重複三十天后，就可以打開下一卷了。每一卷都依照同樣的方法讀上三十天，久而久之，它們就成為一種習慣了。
這些習慣有什麼好處呢？這裡隱含著人類成功的秘訣。當我每天重複這些話的時候，它何成了我精神活動的一部分，更重要的是，它們滲入我的心靈。擁是個神秘的世界，永不靜止，創造夢境，在不知不覺中影響我的行為。
當這些羊皮卷上的文字，被我奇妙的心靈完全吸收之後，我每天都會充滿活力地醒來。我從來沒有這樣精力充沛過。我更有活力，更有熱情，要向世界挑戰的欲望克服了一切恐懼與不安。在這個充滿爭鬥和悲傷的世界裡，我竟然比以前更快活。 最後，我會發現自己有了應付一切情況的辦法。不久，這些辦法就能運用自如．因為，任何方法，只要多練習，就會變得簡單易行。
經過多次重複，一種看似複雜的行為就變得輕而易舉，實行起來，就會有無限的樂趣，有了樂趣，出於人之天性，我就更樂意常去實行。於是，一種好的習慣便誕生了．習慣成為自然。既是一種好的習慣，也就是我的意原。
今天，我天始新的生活．
我鄭重地發誓，絕不讓任何事情妨礙我新生命的成長。在閱讀這些羊卷的時候，我絕不浪費一天的時間，因為時光一去不返，失去的日子是無法彌補的。我也絕不打破每天閱讀的習慣。事實上，每天在這些新習慣上花費少許時間，相對於可能獲得的愉樂與成功而言，只是微不足道的代價。 當我閱讀羊皮卷中的字句時，絕不能出為文字的精煉而忽視內容的深沉。一瓶葡萄美酒需要千百顆果子釀制而成，果皮和渣子拋給小鳥。葡萄的智慧代代相傳，有些被過濾，有些被淘汰，隨風飄逝。只有純正的真理才是永恆的。它們就精煉在我要閱讀的文字中。我要依照指示，絕不浪費，飲下成功的種子。
今天，我的老繭化為塵埃。我在人群中昂首闊步，不會有人認出我來，因為我不再是過去的自己、我已擁有新的生命。
英文格言
1、A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
——Joseph Addison（美國作家艾迪生）
2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道錢的價值，就想辦法去借錢試試。
——Benjamin Franklin（美國總統佛蘭克林）
3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend,
experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，當以恒心為良友，以經驗為參謀，以謹慎為兄弟，以希望為哨兵。
——Thomas Edison（美國發明家愛迪生）
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康當然比金錢更為重要，因為我們所賴以獲得金錢的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson（英國作家詹森）
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能處處尋求快樂的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau（美國作家梭羅）
6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有時候一個人為不花錢得到的東西付出的代價最高。
——Albert Einstein（美國科學家愛因斯坦）
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur（法國化學家巴斯勒）
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世間所有的榮華富貴不如一個好朋友。
——Voltaire（法國思想家伏爾泰）
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身體之間存在極大的不同。
——William Hazlitt（英國批評家散文家哈滋裡特）
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
懷著希望去旅行比抵達目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在於工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson（英國作家史蒂文生）
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一個人越偉大，對表揚和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs（美國博物學家巴勒斯）
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以說成功要靠三件事才能贏得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy（英國詩人小說家哈代）
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取決於知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu（法國思想家孟德斯鳩）
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圓滿完成簡單工作的人，才能夠輕而易舉的完成困難的事。
——Friedrich Schiller（德國劇作家詩人席勒）
15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
你必須相信自己，這是成功的關鍵。
——Charles Chaplin（美國演員卓別林）
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
無論何事，只要對它有無限的熱情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab（美國實業家施瓦布）
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.
凡是決心取得勝利的人是從來不說“不可能的”。
——Bonapart Napoleon（法國皇帝拿破崙）
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
進步是今天的活動，明天的保證。
——Emerson（美國思想家愛默生）
20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。
——Richard Nixon（美國總統尼克森）
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇跡有時候是會發生的，但是你得為之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann（愛爾蘭總統魏茨曼）
22、It never will rain roses.（名人名言 ）
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不會掉下玫瑰來，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必須自己種植。
——G. Eliot（英國小說家艾略特）
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天賦，勤勉會使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉會補足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds（美國散文家雷諾茲）
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成偉大的事業不在於體力，而在於堅韌不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson（英國作家和評論家詹森）
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味著終身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev（俄國化學家門捷列耶夫）
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，與其說是條件不夠，不如說是由於決心不夠。
——（La Racheforcauld（法國作家羅切福考爾德）
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大膽挑戰，世界總會讓步。如果有時候你被它打敗了，不斷地挑戰，它總會屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray（英國小說家薩克雷）
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都應盡力而為，半途而廢永遠不行。
——R.H. Stoddard（美國詩人斯托達德）
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一個人可以失敗多次，但是只要他沒有開始責怪旁人，他還不是一個失敗者。
——J.Burroughs（美國博物學家巴勒斯）
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
從一個國家的廣告可以看出這個國家的理想。
——Norman Douglas（英國作家道格拉斯）
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
實現明天理想的唯一障礙是今天的疑慮。
——Franklin Roosevelt（美國總統羅斯福）
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法實現之前是個怪人。
——Mark Twain（美國作家馬克？吐溫）
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是確定一個偉大的目標，並決心實現它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德國詩人、劇作家歌德）
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世間的大多數煩惱都是由那些想成為重要人物的人惹出來的。
——George Eliot（英國小說家艾略特）
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你懷疑自己，那麼你的立足點確實不穩固了。
——Ibsen（挪威劇作家易卜生）
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明燈。沒有理想，就沒有堅定的方向；
沒有方向，就沒有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory（俄國作家托爾斯泰）
37、Ideal are like the stars --- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想猶如天上的星星，我們猶如水手，雖不能達到天上，
但是我們的航程可憑藉它指引。
——Carl Schurz（美國政治家舒爾茨）
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生應該樹立目標，否則你的精神會白白浪費。
——R. Peters（美國法學家彼得斯）
39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
不要放棄你的幻想。當幻想沒有了以後，你還可以生存，但是你雖生猶死。
——Mark Twain（馬克 吐溫）
40、Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失敗，就放棄你原來決心想要達到的目的。
——Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亞）
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想與現實之間，動機與行為之間，總有一道陰影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.愛略特）
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一個人還有所追求，他就沒有老。直到後悔取代了夢想，一個人才算老。
——J. Barrymore（巴里莫爾）
