Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.

　　困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

　　All things in their being are good for something.

　　天生我才必有用。

　　Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. (R.M. Nixon)

　　命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运。(尼克松)

　　What makes life dreary is the want of motive. (George Eliot )

　　没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。(乔治 • 埃略特)

　　Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.(Lincoln)

　　卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。(林肯)

　　The good seaman is known in bad weather. 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。

　　Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. (J.H. Newman)

　　不要害怕你的生活将要结束,应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。(纽曼)

　　Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. (A. Einstein)

　　不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。( 爱因斯坦)

　　You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. ( Charles Chaplin )

　　人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。 (卓别林)

　　We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. (Mattin Luther King)

　　我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。 ( 马丁 • 路德 • 金)

　　A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step. 千里之行，始于足下。

　　Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. (Swetchine)

　　只有强者才懂得斗争;弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。 ( 斯威特切尼)