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Ernest Hemingway
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.
The men of history were not perpetually looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it. They did it so well that the wondering world sees them to be great, and labeled them accordingly.
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. “Eternal vigilance ,” it has been said, “is the price of liberty.” With equal truth it may be said, “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 great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist, and irresponsible creature of circumstances.
Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovel. Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else.
The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.
Wise men don't care for what they can't have.
难词释义
vigilance n. 警觉；警惕
outstrip v. 超过；胜过
pluck v. 摘；拔
crystallized adj. 结晶的；具体化的
heredity n. 遗传
欧内斯特·海明威
我们无法将每条路都走一遍。要想获得成功就必须坚守于一条道路。我们必须给自己设定一个终生目标，其他目标则从属于这个目标。
我讨厌做事半途而废。如果这件事是对的，就大胆地去做。如果是错的，那就不去做。
历史上的伟人并非终日对镜衡量自身形象，而是全身心地投入所从事的事业。他们是如此的超尘拔俗，所以大众觉得他们很伟大，把他们称为伟人。
拥有崇高理想的生活才是成功的生活。使人强大的，不是做了什么，而是在努力尝试做什么。有句话说，“自由的代价是永恒的警惕”，同样也可以说，“成功的代价是不懈的努力”。
如果我们不拼尽全力工作，总有人会拼尽全力，于是他们会在竞争中超过我们，从我们的手中夺走荣誉和成果。
成功越来越不靠运气和巧合。缺乏自信是造成我们失败的主因。
性格是获得成功最重要、最不可或缺的一部分。它是一种固化的习惯，是不断培养且坚信于此的结果。每种性格都会受到遗传因素、环境和教育的影响。但除了这些，如果一个人在很大程度上不能去塑造自己的性格，那么他会成为宿命论者，成为环境里的无用造物。
与其说人是环境的造物，不如说人是环境的建筑师更加贴切。用同样的材料，有人能建出宫殿，而有人只能堆出简陋的小屋。砖泥就只能是砖泥，直到建筑师把它们建造成其他东西。
想得到的多就不要奢望得到太多。
智者不会在意他们得不到的东西。