Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.

  • -- Bishop Westcott 韦斯科特主教

伟大的场合不会造就英雄或懦夫;他们只是在男人的眼前揭开面纱……危机向我们展示了我们已经成为什么样的人。

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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

从某种意义上说,失败是通往成功之路,因为每一次对错误的发现都会引导我们认真地追求真理,而非常新鲜的经验会指出某种形式的错误,我们以后会小心地避免这种错误。

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

他仍然认为他有责任闭嘴,继续干下去,不制造任何麻烦。在我们这个时代,我们把反抗者塑造成英雄,而敢于发声则更有英雄气概。

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

在我看来,这是普通人最根本的英雄品质;他们对暴君说不,并平静地承担反抗的后果。

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

如果你变得伟大,那么你就会变得快乐。如果你一开始就很快乐,想要变得伟大就难多了。

Don't fear failure... In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

不要害怕失败…在伟大的尝试中,即使失败也是光荣的。

From a fallen tree, make kindling.

从一棵倒下的树上点燃火柴。