人生几十年！是一个绚丽、悠长的梦。聚也匆匆，散也匆匆。等到白发于我们的那一年，梦也醒了，回头展望一下自己留下的足迹：有荒度光阴的追悔，只能发出白了少年头，空悲切感叹；也有碌碌无为的惆怅，不免会叹息自己的荒度时光，成功对于每一个人来说都是头顶的一轮圆月，每天都可以看到，却有多少人没有坚持下去。

下面是我们整理的国外名人对于成功的合理解释：

1、Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort. -- Shakespeare

不要因为一次挫折就放弃你原来决心要达到的目标。( 莎士比亚)

2、Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. (J. Anderson)

只要坚韧不拔，失败十九次之后，第二十次就会成功。(安德森)

3、Today’s opportunity erase yesterday’s failures. (Gene Brown)

今日的机遇可抹去昨日的失败。(吉恩 · 布朗)

4、You have to pay the price but if you do you can only win. (Frank Leahy)

为了成功，你必须付出代价。如果你付出了代价，你就会成功。(莱希)

5、It’s better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all. (A.H.Clough)

奋战过而失败，强于根本未战。(克拉夫)

6、Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even. (Lincoln)

记住，当人生之路陡峭之时，要保持沉着。( 林肯)

7、Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. (Fredrich Edwin Smith Birkenhead)

优雅地迎接成功，勇敢地面对挫折。(伯肯黑德)

8、A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.C.M.Schwab, American brsinessman.

无论何事，只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。 —— 美国实业家施瓦布。

9、Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. ( A. Gide)

人只有鼓起勇气，告别海岸，才能发现新的海洋.( 纪德)

10、The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. -- Goethe

人生最重要的是树立一个远大的目标，并下定决心去实现它. (歌德)

11、A chievement provides the only real pleasure in life.Thomas Eeison, American inventor.

有所成就是人生唯一的真正的乐趣。—— 美国发明家爱迪生。

12、I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.Bonapart Napoleon, French emperor.

我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇。 -—— 法国皇帝拿破仑。

13、If you wish to succeed, you should use perdistence as your good friend, experiece as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.Thomas Edison, American inventor.

如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。—— 美国发明家爱迪生。

14、People often ask me if I know the secret of success, and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.Walt Disney, American brsinessman.

人们时常问我是否晓得成功的诀窍，能否告诉别人怎样使他们的梦想成为现实。我的回答是：身体力行。—— 美国实业家迪斯尼。

15、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.Charles Montesquier, French thinker.

成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。—— 法国思想家孟德斯鸠。

16、The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want,and if they cannot find them, they make them.George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist.

在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。—— 英国剧作家肖伯纳。

17、There are two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.Jean De La Bruyere, French moralist.

成功之路有两条：靠自己的努力或靠他人的愚蠢。—— 法国道德家拉布吕耶尔.。

18、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.Louis Pasteur, French chemist.

意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。—— 法国化学家巴斯德。