On Achieving Success
佚名/Anonymous
我們不可能同時涉足每條路。若想成功就要沿著一條路堅定地走下去。我們要確定一個人生目標，其他一切都服務於此。我討厭半途而廢的做事方式。如果認為事情是正確的，就放手去做。如果認為不正確，就不要冒險而為。懷有成功夢想的生活才是理想的生活。能使一個人強大的不是他做什麽事，而是他想努力做什麽事。成功需要不懈地努力。如果我們不盡心盡力地工作，別人就會趕超我們，奪取桂冠。若懷有僥幸心理，成功隻會漸行漸遠。氣餒是失敗的罪魁禍首。品格是獲取成功的得力助手，是訓練和信念的果實，是一種確定的習性。每種品格都受遺傳、環境和教育等諸多因素的影響。若忽略這些影響因素，每個人都不“擴建”自己的品格，那麽他就是一個宿命論者，一個無責任感的特定環境下的生物個體。
與其說人是環境的創造物，不如說人是環境的建造師。相同的材料，有的人可以用它建造宮殿，有的人卻隻能用它建造茅草房。磚頭和灰泥無力改變自己的本質，而建造師們可以將其構築成任何一個有形之物。
若想收獲豐盛，就不要期望太多。
明智的人不會為他們無法得到的事物而懊惱。
We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along one line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be subordinate. I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right， do it boldly. If it be wrong， leave it undone. To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does， but what one tries to do， that makes a man strong. Unceasing effort is the price of success. If we do not work with our might， others will； and they will outstrip us in the race， and pluck the prize from our grasp. Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. The great and indispensable help to success is character. Character is a crystallized habit， the result of training and conviction. Every character is influenced by heredity， environment and education. But these apart， if every man were not to be a extent the architect of his own character， he would be a fatalist， and irresponsible creature of circumstances.