No one can degrade up except ourselves!
除了我们自己以外,每人能贬低我们!

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
不善始者不善终。
A bad thing never dies.
遗臭万年。
A bad workman always blames his tools.
不会撑船怪河弯。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward.
色厉内荏。
A burden of one's choice is not felt.
爱挑的担子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat has 9 lives.
猫有九条命。
A cat may look at a king.
猫也可以打量国王，意为人人平等。
A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入。
A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厌。
Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
穷则思变。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境出人才。
A fair death honors the whole life.
死得其所，流芳百世。
A faithful friend is hard to find.
知音难觅。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
A friend is easier lost than found.
得朋友难，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need.
需要之时方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found.
没有十全十美的朋友。
'After you' is good manners.
“您先请”是礼貌。
A good beginning is half done.
良好的开端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始者善终。
A good book is a good friend.
好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。

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Nothing in the world is impossible if you set your mind to do it.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。
Never too old to learn.活到老，学到老。
A man is known by the companion he keeps.近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Follow your own course,and let people talk.
走自己的路，让别人去说吧。

Discipline is remembering what you want.克己修身之道在于紧记自己的所需。
The difference between the determination.事之可为与不可为，紧于人的决心。
Life shrinks or expands in proportion one's courage.人生起落以意志勇怯而定。
There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.迈向卓越之路并无速度限制。
Careers,like rockets,don't always take lff on schedule.The key is to keep working on the engines.事业就像火箭并非总是依时升空。关键是始终保持动力。
Making long-term decisions requires short-term difficulties.要作长远的决定势必面对眼前的困阻。
There was never a night or a problem that could defeatsunrise or hope.黑夜不能阻止日出，难题无法抹杀希望。
Truth is etermal,knowledge is changeabli.It is disastrous to confuse them.真理是永恒的，知识却可变易，混淆二者则后果不堪设想。
Where principli is involved,be deaf to expediency.牵涉到原则的时候，决不能通融。
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past,threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.偏见是心灵上的累赘，会播迷务于往事，植危机于未来，更使人无法掌握现在。
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.能干的领航员永远看风使帆。
Let him that would move the world,first move himself.要推动世界，须先自己行动。
Noboby gets to live life backward.Look ahead___that's where your future lies.谁也不能回到过去。要向前看，那才是你要走的路。
Most people are welling to pay more to be amused than to be educated.大多数人情愿多付代价娱己，却吝啬请教求益。
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.生前不律己，身后难流芳。
You have to be frest,best or different.做事不先人着鞭，也应高人一等或与人不同。
Heroes and winners aren't the same thing.英雄未必得胜，胜利者未必是英雄。
No great deed,private or public,has ver been undertaken in a bliss lf certainty.杰出成就，不论公私，从来不是侥幸得来。
Victories only mean something they lead to happiness.胜利要带来快乐，才有意义。
Old age begins when we rise in the morning without a goal and lie down at night without hope.假若你早晨起床时心里没任何目标，晚上就寝时心里没任何期望，那表示你开始老了。
The way to use our past is not as crutches,but as steps up a ladder.不要视经验为拐杖，而应视之为助人进步的阶梯。
Men and kings are gauged not only bythe way they cope with defeat,but the way they hadle victory.衡量一个人是否卓越，不但要看他如何应付挫折，也要看他成功以后如何自处。
Underpromise;overdeliver.少些许诺，多些践诺。
If you don't thind every day is a good day,just try missing one.假如你不觉得人生天天美好，大可不过一天试试。
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks lf changing himself.人人都想改变人性，但谁都没想到要改变自己。
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.看日落而不兴遐想，几乎是不可能的。
The young do not know enough to be prudent,and therefore they attempt the impossible____and achieve it,generation after generation.年轻人少不更事，不知天高地厚，因此勇赴不可能事，竟有所成，代代如此。