写一篇英语励志的作文

Success is not easy to talk about because the word success it-self has hundreds of definitions. For some it means power, for some it means wealth, for others it is fame or great achieve-ments. But I have my own understanding of it.

Success means to try your best.
Many people believe that success means to win. In my opin-ion, it means to try your best when you do everything, no matter you will win or not. When you are taking part in a long-distance race, if you keep on running as fast as you can, you are successful, although you may be the last to pass the finishing-line. Because you have showed your best to others, and you have made I your greatest effort to be the winner.

Success means to work hard.
No one can succeed without any hard work. Karl Max was successful, because he spent more than 30 years writing the book Communist Manifesto; Tomas Edison succeeded, because he had experimented thousands of times to find the best material for lights. Every success calls for hard work. If you want to suc-ceed, work hard first.
About success 关于成功
Success means not to lose heart.
No one can always be the winner. You will certainly lose or fail some day. It is important for you not to lose heart. A person who has lost heart is just like a tree without roots. It will be easi-ly blown down by the wind. Nobel had failed many times when he was doing his experiments. Sometimes his lab was on fire and he was nearly killed. But he never lost heart and kept on trying. Finally he invented a new explosive. So when you fail or meet any difficulty, just believe in yourself, stand up and give the dif-ficulty a heavy strike.

格言
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.
· 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
· Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine
· 失败乃成功之母。
· For man is man and master of his fate.
· 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
· The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
· 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底
· None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
· 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，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
· 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运 - 尼克松
· Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin
· 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金
· What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot
· 没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 · 埃略特
· Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-- Lincoln
· 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。
· There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac
· 没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。 -- 巴尔扎克
· The good seaman is known in bad weather.
· 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。
· Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman
· 不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。 -- 纽曼
· Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving
· 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。 -- 欧文
· An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
· 生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。-- 史蒂文森
· While there is life there is hope.
· 一息若存，希望不灭。 -- 英国谚语
· Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein
· 不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。 -- 爱因斯坦
· You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin
· 人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。 -- 卓别林