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篇一：励志英语美文

《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.

篇二：励志英语美文

Every life coheres around certain fundamental core ideas whether we realize it or not。 If I were asked to state the ideas around which my life and my life's work have been built it would seem that they were very simple ideas。

无论我们能否认识到这点，每个人的人生都与某种基础的核心思想密切相连的。

An old professor of mine used to say that “effort counts。” “The surest thing in the world，” he would say， “next to death is that effort counts。” This I believe with all my heart。

倘若有人问我，我的生命与工作基于何种观念？我觉得它们非常简单。“一分耕耘，一分收获。”这是我的一位老教授过去常说的话。他说：“除了死亡之外，世界上最确切的事就是‘一分耕耘，一分收获’。”我对此深信不疑。

We seldom realize the sense of glow， the sense of growing self—esteem， the sense of achievement， which can come from doing a job well。 Just working at a thing with enthusiasm and with a belief that the job may be accomplished， however uncertain the outcome， lends zest to life。

我们很少能意识到工作带给我们的乐趣，对我们自尊心的培养，以及给予我们的成就感。只要带着热情去做一件事情，并坚信一定可以完成，无论最终会有怎样的结果，它都会为我们的生活带来激情。

If I were to start life again， I think I would do just what I have done in the past—this past having been done by mere chance。 I would start at some task which very much needed to be done。 I would start in a place which was run down and I would believe with all my heart that if the thing needed to be done and if effort were put into it， results would come for human good。

如果再给我一次生命，我想我仍会做过去所做的事——虽然过去所做的一切纯属偶然。我会从急需去做的事情做起，从破损之处做起;我会由衷地相信，只要是必须做的事，只要付出努力，就一定会获得对人类有益的结果。

Too， from the outset， my wife and I have had the feeling that no matter what else we did in life， we had to devote our best thinking and our best living to our children。

并且，我和妻子从一开始就认为，无论生活中还有任何什么别的事等待我们去做，我们都必须全身心为孩子们提供最好的生活。

Now that they are all grown， we have sincere satisfaction in the fact that trying to do ajob and trying to earn a living did not take away from us this urgency to be and do so that our children could have a feeling of the importance of integrity， honesty and straightforwardness in life。

如今，他们都已长大成人。我们感到无比满足，我们为生计奔波，努力工作，但都不曾忽略孩子，这样孩子们才能真正明白生活中正直、诚实和坦率的重要性。而我觉得，人们通常都忽略了这些。为了在社会中生存，人们不得不去工作，于是忽略了自己的孩子。

It seems to me far too often this is overlooked。 We people in public life do the jobs we have to do and fail to save our own children。 This second thing is important— doing the task you have to do but beginning at home to bring peace， love， happiness and contentment to those whom God has given you。

然而，后者更为重要——做你必须做的`事，但先要把和平、爱心、幸福和满足感带给家中的那些上帝恩赐与你的孩子们。

The third idea， around which I have tried to live and work， is that there is an overshadowing Providence that cares for one。 Ofttimes struggles are too intense， too “eager beaverish” when， as a matter of fact， time and God can solve many problems。

上天始终眷顾着我，这是维系我的生活与工作的第三个观念。有时，我们会过于积极，过于“急功近利”，而事实上，上帝和时间会解决很多问题。

Never in my life have I gotten away from the idea that God cares and that He provides that the forces of good in the world are greater than the forces of evil and that if we will lend ourselves to those forces， in the long run we have greater joy and happiness in the thing which we try to achieve。

上帝眷顾着我们，他让我们懂得世界上善的力量总大于恶的力量，只要我们追随着善，就一定会从我们努力成就的事业中获得更多的快乐与幸福，这正是我在一生中都不曾背离的一种观念。它们是我儿时时从母亲那里学到的。

This I learned from my mother as a boy。 Although she was ill and although we were poor—as poor as people can be—I do not now recall a moment of discouragement in her presence。 There was always an overpowering belief that God was in His heaven and that， as Joe Louis said， “God is on our side。”

虽然母亲染病在身，虽然我们的生活一贫如洗，但是在我的记忆中，母亲从未有过一刻的气馁。她始终坚信，正如乔路易斯所说：“上帝与我们同在。”上帝就在天堂。

These things I believe with all my heart。

对于这些观念，我是由衷地相信的。

篇三：励志英语美文

It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life。 I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling。 I don’t think it was spoken of a great deal。 It was more or less taken for granted that everybody held certain beliefs and needed certain reinforcements of their own strength and that that came through your belief in God and your knowledge of prayer。

But as I grew older I questioned a great many of the things that I knew very well my grandmother who had brought me up had taken for granted。 And I think I might have been a quite difficult person to live with if it hadn’t been for the fact that my husband once said it didn’t do you any harm to learn those things， so why not let your children learn them？ When they grow up they’ll think things out for themselves。

And that gave me a feeling that perhaps that’s what we all must do—think out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it。 And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop。

I don’t know whether I believe in a future life。 I believe that all that you go through here must have some value， therefore there must be some reason。 And there must be some “going on。” How exactly that happens I’ve never been able to decide。 There is a future—that I’m sure of。 But how， that I don’t know。 And I came to feel that it didn’t really matter very much because whatever the future held you’d have to face it when you came to it， just as whatever life holds you have to face it exactly the same way。 And the important thing was that you never let down doing the best that you were able to do—it might be poor because you might not have very much within you to give， or to help other people with， or to live your life with。 But as long as you did the very best that you were able to do， then that was what you were put here to do and that was what you were accomplishing by being here。

And so I have tried to follow that out—and not to worry about the future or what was going to happen。 I think I am pretty much of a fatalist。 You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give。

篇四：励志英语美文

Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast。 He constantly advertised for hired hands。 Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic。 They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic， wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops。 As the farmer interviewed applicants for the job， he received a steady stream of refusals。

Finally， a short， thin man， well past middle age， approached the farmer。 “Are you a good farmhand？” the farmer asked him。

“Well， I can sleep when the wind blows，” answered the little man。

Although puzzled by this answer， the farmer， desperate for help， hired him。 The little man worked well around the farm， busy from dawn to dusk， and the farmer felt satisfied with the man's work。

Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore。 Jumping out of bed， the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters。 He shook the little man and yelled， “Get up！ A storm is coming！ Tie things down before they blow away！”

The little man rolled over in bed and said firmly， “No sir。 I told you， I can sleep when the wind blows。”

Enraged by the response， the farmer was tempted to fire him on the spot。 Instead， he hurried outside to prepare for the storm。 To his amazement， he discovered that all of the haystacks had been covered with tarpaulins。 The cows were in the barn， the chickens were in the coops， and the doors were barred。 The shutters were tightly secured。 Everything was tied down。 Nothing could blow away。

The farmer then understood what his hired hand meant， so he returned to his bed to also sleep while the wind blew。

篇五：励志的英语美文

People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books, documents and records of the past. Why do we have libraries? What good are these documents and the history books? Why do we record and save the actions of men, the negotiations of statesmen and the campaigns of armies?

人们常常心存疑虑，为什么历史学家要费尽周折地保存数以万计过去的书籍、文献和记录。我们为什么要有图书馆呢?这些文献和史书有何用处呢?我们为什么要记载并保存人类的行为、政治家的谈判和军队的战役呢?

Because, sometimes, the voice of experience can cause us to stop, look and listen. And because, sometimes, past records, correctly interpreted, can give us warning of what to do and what not to do.

因为，有时候经验之谈能促使我们停步、观察和倾听。也因为有时候过去的记载经过正确的诠释，可以给我们一种警示，告诉我们何事可做、何事不可做。

If we are ever to create enduring peace, we must seek its origins in human experience and in the record of human idealism. From the story of the fortitude, courage and devotion of men and women, we create the inspirations of youth. From stories of the ancient cave dwellers right down to today's environmental activists, history records people's success, intelligence and strength. Surely from these records there can come help to mankind in our confusions and promote and in our desires for peace.

如果我们想要永保和平，我们就必须从人类经验以及人类追求理想的历程中去探索其渊源。从体现男性和女性不屈不挠、勇敢和奉献精神的故事之中，我们获得了青春的启示。远自基督教殉道者，近到布达佩斯的当代英勇烈士，历史记载着人类的一切苦难、克己、忠诚和英勇的事迹。当然，那些记载一定会对处于困惑、茫然和渴望和平的人们有所助益。

The supreme purpose of history is a better world. History gives a warning to those who would promote war. History brings inspiration to those who seek peace. In short, history helps us learn. Yesterday's records can keep us from repeating yesterday's mistakes. And from all these records, we can see the progress of mankind.

历史的终极目的是创造一个更加美好的世界。历史对那些力主战争的人加以警告。对于那些追寻和平的人予以启示。简而言之，历史帮助我们学习。昨日的记载可以使我们避免重蹈覆辙。而这些由历史学家所汇集的镶嵌图案艺术品，将会逐渐成为表现人类进步的伟大壁画。

篇六：励志的英语美文

Life doesn't always give us the joys we want.

生活并非总是如你所愿。

We don't always get our hopes and dreams, and we don't always get our own way.

我们的希望和梦想有时会落空、破灭，我们不能一切随心所愿。

But don't give up hope, because you can make a difference one situation and one person at a time.

但不要放弃希望，因为事物并非一成不变；不同时间，不同场合，你会呈现不同的面貌。

Look for the beauty around you--in nature, in others, in yourself--and believe in the love of friends, family, and humankind.

处处留心你身边的美吧－－自然中的，别人中的，你自己的－－请相信，爱来自朋友、家庭乃至全人类。

You can find love in a smile or a helping hand, in a thoughtful gesture or a kind word. It is all around, if you just look for it.

一个微笑，援助之手，关心的举止，友善的世界，无不传达着爱。爱无所不在，如果你有寻找的话。

Give love, for in giving it you will find the power in life along with the joy, happiness, patience, and understanding.

奉献爱心吧，从中你会发现生活的力量，感受生活带来的幸福快乐，学会忍耐和理解。

Believe in the goodness of others and remember that anger and depression can be countered by love and hope.

相信人性本善。记住，爱心和希望能化解一切愤怒和沮丧。

Even when you feel as though there isn't a lot you can do to change unhappiness or problems, you can always do a little--and a little at a time eventually makes a big difference.

哪怕生活中挥之不去的不快和困难将你重重包围，让你力不从心，但你仍可以尽力而为。累积点滴努力，最终你将扭转乾坤。

篇七：励志英语美文欣赏

Stay True to Yourself

做真正的自己

But my idea of success is different today. And as you grow, you'll realise the definition of success changes. For many of you, today, success is being able to hold down 20 shots of tequila. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity, and not to give into peer pressure; to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person; to contribute in some way. So to conclude my conclusion: follow your Passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, and by all means you should follow that. Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

但今日我对成功的定义变了，当你长大，你就会发现这点。对你们中的很多人来说，成功的定义是能灌下20杯龙舌兰酒。对我来说，生命中最重妥的事是:活得诚实!别屈从于同伴的压力，把自己变成本不是的那个人。要活得真诚，有怜悯之心，在某些方面有所贡献。这是结论的结论，追随热情，忠于自我。绝不要追随别人的脚步，除非你在森林里迷了路才要这么做。那时你真的该那样做。别给人忠告，它们会给你带来麻烦。也别接受任何人的忠告。那么，我要给大家的忠告是，做真正的自己，一切都会顺利的。

And I know that a lot of you are concerned about your future, but there's no need to worry. The economy is booming, the job market is wide open, the planet is just fine It's gonna be great. You've already survived a hurricane What else can happen to you? And as I mentioned before, some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most. And now you know the right questions to ask in your first job interview. Like, “Is it above sea level?”. So to conclude my conclusion that I've previously concluded, in the common cement speech, I guess what I'm trying to say is life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with. And you'll be drunk, most of the time.

我知道在庄很多人都在担心自己的前途，但不用担心，经济正急速增长，就业市场求才若J蜀，地球也好得很。一切都会好的，你们都经历过风灾了，还有什么可怕的?如我以前所说的:从最惨痛的经历中可以吸收最多的教训。现在你们知道在你们的第一场面试中该问什么样的问题了吧?比如，公司高于海平面吗?总结我之前的结论，我的“常见的水泥”演讲，我想说的是，人生就像一场狂欢节嘉年华，但请展现你们的头脑，而非胸部，如果人家欣赏的话你就有更多的金银珠宝可以使用，而且在大多时间你都会醉。

篇八：励志英语美文欣赏

Feelings, Failure and Finding Happiness

感觉、失败及寻找幸福

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school and our life the classrooms. And sometimes here in this Planet Earth school the lessons often come dressed up as detours or roadblocks. And sometimes as full-blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest university of all, that is, the universe itself. It's being able to walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here, to evolve as human beings. To grow into more of ourselves, always moving to the next level of understanding, the next level of compassion and growth.

这个世界将教会你们很多。我认为这个世界，这个地球，就像一所学校，而我们的人生就像是教室。在世界这所大学里，有些课程会是人生的弯路或障碍，有些课程则充满危机。而我所学到的应对这一切的私、诀就是：勇于面对一切挫折与危机，世界本身就是世上最好的大学。在人生的旅途中，妥对生活充满激情，并不断提高自我，这就是进化为人类并存在于世的意义。不断提升自我，去追求人生的更高境界，去追求更高级别的怜悯和自我提高。

I think about one of the greatest compliments I've ever received: I interviewed with a reporter when I was first starting out in Chicago. And then many years later, I saw the same reporter. And she said to me, “You know what? You really haven't changed. You've just become more of yourself.”

我记得我所受到的最高的赞扬之一。刚在芝加哥开始工作时，我采访了一个记者。很多年以后我们又见面了。她对我说：“你知道吗?你一点也没有变，你变得更自我了。”

And that is really what we're all trying to do, become more of ourselves. And I believe that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It's how you enrich your spirit. And, trust me, I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

这就是我们一直努力在傲的，去做我们自己。我坚信你们会从自己做过的每一件事情上学到经验，这样你们才能取得进步。也只有这样你们的心灵才能更加丰富。相信我，内在的智慧比外在的财富更加珍贵。你运用智慧越多，你得到的也会越多。

篇九：励志英语美文欣赏

Tribute to Diana

致戴安娜

There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling.

毫无疑问，她一直在寻找一个新的生活方向，她不时说起要离开英国，主要是受不了报纸对她的.围攻。我想她始终不明白为什么她的真诚善意会被媒体扭曲嘲弄，为什么周围总有一股永远把她拉倒的代表媒体的势力，这些确实令人难以理解。

My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.

我自己唯一的解释，就是真正的善与美对那些位于道德光谱另一端的人来说，是一种威胁。但是，在一切有关黛安娜的嘲讽中，也许最大的讽刺是：一个女孩子，她的名字是古代拧猎女神(黛安娜)，自己最后却成为现代社会最受围剿的一个人。

She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys William and Harry from a similar fate and I do this here Diana on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.

她会要我们今天誓言保护她钟爱的孩子威廉和哈里，免遭相同的命运。黛安娜，我在这里代表你起誓，我们决不会让他们遭受与你那种惯于把你逼到绝望落泪的苦难。

And beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.

另外，我代表你母亲和两个姐姐起誓，我们，你的骨肉亲人，将尽一切能力继续走你那极富创意和深具爱心的道路，引导这两个杰出孩子，让他们的心灵不是束缚在职责的传统中，而是能如你所期盼地自由地放声歌唱。

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