Burnt child dreads the fire.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。
Business before pleasure.
事業在先，享樂在后。
Business is business.
公事公辦。
By doing we learn.
經一事，長一智。
By falling we learn to go safely.
吃一塹，長一智。
By other's faults, wise men correct their own.
他山之石，可以攻玉。
By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
讀書可以使我門的思想充實，談話使其更臻完美。
pain past is pleasure
過去的痛苦即快樂。
All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事必先難后易。
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
心之所愿，無事不成。
A plant may produce new flowers; man is young but once
花有重開日，人無再少年。
God helps those who help themselves
自助者，天助之。
What may be done at any time will be done at no time
明日待明日，明日不再來。
Diligence is the mother of success
勤奮是成功之母。
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves
積少自然成多。
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
今天能做的事絕不要拖到明天。
Live and learn
活到老，學到老。
an hour in the morning is worth two in the evening
一日之計在于晨。
a year's plan starts with spring
一年之計在于春。
a young idler, an old beggar
少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
a good beginning is half done
良好的開端是成功的一半。
a good beginning makes a good ending
善始者善終。
a good book is a good friend
好書如摯友。
a good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever
一本好書，相伴一生。
Where there is life, there is hope.
有生命必有希望。
I feel strongly that I can make it.
我堅信我一定能成功。
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
與其詛咒黑暗，不如燃起蠟燭。
The shortest answer is doing.
最簡短的回答就是行動。
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
成功的秘訣就是四個簡單的字：多一點點。
All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。
Failure is the mother of success. Thomas Paine
失敗乃成功之母。
For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人，是自己命運的主人。
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得過。 蘇格拉底
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. Erasmus
只有每天再度戰勝生活并奪取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
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
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。因此，夢頤嗆廖薹懼，滿心愉悅地把握命? 尼克松
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. John Ruskin
生活沒有目標，猶如航海沒有羅盤。 羅斯金