第60章 论毅力

    Perseverance

    论毅力

    Anonymous/佚名

    Napoleon declared，“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”Upon careful study we find perseverance depends upon three things--purpose，will，and enthusiasm.He who has a purpose is always concentrating his forces.By the will，the hope and the plan are prevented from evaporating into dreams.Enthusiasm keeps the interest up，and makes the obstacles seem small.

    Life is in a sense a battle.The man who thinks to get on by mere smart-ness and by idling meets failure at last.Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls，and holds the key to those treasure--houses of knowledge from which the world has drawn its wealth both of wisdom and of moral worth.

    Great men never wait for opportunities；they make them.They seize upon whatever is at hand，work out their problem，and master the situation.The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him.This is success and there is no other.

    拿破仑主张：“胜利是属于最有毅力的人的。”根据精细的研究，我们发现毅力取决于三件事——目标、意志与热忱。有目标的人永远会集中他的力量；藉由意志，可使希望和计划不致于化为梦想；热忱则可以保持兴致盎然，并使阻碍显得渺小。

    就某种意义而言，生活是一种战斗。只想凭藉机智，无所事事就想出人头地的人，终会遭遇失败。毅力是信心坚定者的主要推动力，毅力也掌握了世人从中攫取智慧和道德价值的知识宝库之钥匙。

    伟人决不会等待机会，他们会制造机会。他们掌握手边任何一样东西，解决问题，并主宰形势。在这个世界上，一个人所能做出最伟大的事情，便是将所得资源发挥最大效用；这不是别的，这就是成功。

    One of the important lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of de-feat.It takes courage and stamina，when mortified by humiliating disaster，to seek in the ruins the elements of future conquest.Yet this measures the difference between those who succeed and those who fail.We cannot measure a man by his failures.We must know what use he makes of them.The man who has not fought his way upward and does not bear the scar of desperate conflict does not know the highest meaning of success.

    人生最重要的课程之一，是学习如何从失败中获胜。在受到令人羞耻的不幸时，我们需要勇气与毅力，从损失中探索未来致胜的要素；然而这样可以衡量出成功者与失败者之间的差别。我们不能以失败来衡量一个人，我们必须了解他如何运用失败。一个没有经过力争上游及遭受严酷战斗创伤的人，无法体会成功的最大意义。（未完待续）