勵志英語美文摘抄及翻譯

　　勵志這東西，是有時間期限的。不要期待一個刺激就可以順利地改變你，一個人的動力歸根結底只能來源於自己。小編整理了，歡迎閱讀!

　　：成功動力，自我激勵的6種技巧

　　1. have a cause

　　i can’t think of a more powerful source of motivation than a cause you care about. such cause can inspire you to give your best even in the face of difficulties. it can make you do the seemingly impossible things.

　　while other causes could inspire you temporarily, a cause that matters to you can inspire you indefinitely. it’s a spring of motivation that will never dry. whenever you think that you run out of motivation, you can always come to your cause to get a fresh dose of motivation.

　　1.找到一個理由

　　“在激勵裡，沒什麼比理由更有力了。這些理由能在困難當前時把你激發起來。它能讓你去做一些看起來不可能的事。”

　　儘管也有其他一些動機理由能臨時刺激你，與你休慼相關的那些目標能無限期地激發你。這是一口永不幹涸的激勵泉水。什麼時候你覺得沒動力了，就去找找自己的目標以獲得動力的泉水。

　　2. have a dream. a big dream.

　　only as high as i reach can i grow, only as far as i seek can i go, only as deep as i look can i see, only as much as i dream can i be.

　　karen ravn

　　your cause is a powerful source of motivation but it’s still abstract in nature. you need to make it concrete in the form of a dream. imagine how the world will be in the future. imagine how people will live and work.

　　having a dream is important because it’s difficult to be motivated if you don’t have anything to shoot for. just think about people who play basketball. will they be motivated to play if there is no basket to aim at? i don’t think so. they need a goal. you need a goal. that’s what your dream is for.

　　but just having a dream is insufficient. your dream must be big enough to inspire you. it must be realistic but challenging. it must stretch your ability beyond your comfort zone.

　　2.要有一個夢想。還要夠大。

　　“能摸多高我就長多高，能探多遠我就走多遠，能看多深我就看多深，能做多少夢我就做多少夢。”

　　你的目標動力對於激勵來說是個挺有力的來源，但還是太抽象。你得把它具體化成一個夢想。想象一下未來的世界會怎樣。想象一下人們怎麼生活工作。如果你無的放矢，根本沒法激勵自己，所以做做白日夢還是挺重要的。想想打籃球的人。如果根本沒有籃筐去投，誰還有動力啊?我看就沒有了。他們需要目標。你也是。不然你白日夢拿來幹嘛。

　　但光有白日夢還不夠。這個夢得足夠高遠，那才能激勵你。它得既現實主義又不是可以一蹴而就的。它還得能迫使你離開安逸的環境去大展身手。

　　3. be hungry

　　wanting something is not enough. you must hunger for it. your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

　　les brown to be truly motivated, you need to have hunger and not just desire. having mere desire won’t take you through difficult times since you don’t want things badly enough. in many cases, hunger makes the difference between the best performers and the mediocre ones.

　　how can you have hunger? your cause and your dream play a big role here. if you have a cause you care about and a big dream related to it, you should have the hunger inside of you. if you think that you are losing hunger, all you need to do is to connect again to your cause and dream. let them inspire you and bring the hunger back.

　　3.要有飢渴感

　　“‘想要’什麼那還不夠。你一定要對它充滿渴望。你的動力一定要足夠霸道，那才能跨過總是出現在路上的那些障礙。”

　　要想真正得到激勵，你得不僅僅是“想要”，還要是“渴望要”。僅僅是普通慾望沒法幫你渡過困難，因為你又不是非要不可。很多時候，有沒有飢渴感就是將軍和士兵的差別。

　　怎樣才能有飢渴感?這裡就得看你的動機目標和夢想了。如果你又有關心的目標又有和之相關的白日夢，你就該有一種飢渴感才對。如果你認為自己正在喪失這種飢渴感，你所要做的就是再一次連結起目標和夢想。讓它們繼續激發你並給你帶來飢渴。

　　4. run your own race

　　i do not try to dance better than anyone else. i only try to dance better than myself.

　　mikhail baryshnikov

　　comparing yourself with others is an effective way to demotivate yourself. even if you start with enthusiasm, you will soon lose your energy when you compare yourself with others.

　　don’t let that happen to you. you have your own race so how other people perform is irrelevant. comparing yourself with others is like comparing the performance of a swimmer with a runner using the same time standard. they are different so how can you compare one with the other?

　　the only competitor you have is yourself. the only one you need to beat is you. have you become the best you can be?

　　4.別管別人

　　“我又不想比別人跳舞跳得好。我只想著跳得比自己好而已。”

　　要想灰心喪氣，拿自己跟別人比可謂立竿見影。就算一開始你豪氣沖天，一和別人比，你馬上就繳械投降。

　　千萬別這麼做。你跑自己的，管別人呢。拿自己和別人比，就像讓一個游泳的和一個跑步的用同一時間標準鬥快。都不一樣，天曉得你怎麼比較出來?

　　自己才是自己的唯一敵人。這也是你唯一要戰勝的對手。你做到最好了嗎?

　　5. take one more step

　　success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

　　winston churchill

　　when you meet obstacles along the way, there could be the tendency to quit. you may think that it’s too difficult to move on. you may think that your dream is impossible to achieve. but this is where you can see the difference between winners and losers. though both of them face the same difficulties, there is one thing that makes the winners different: the courage to continue.

　　in difficult situations, just focus on taking one more step forward. don’t think about how to complete the race. don’t think about how many more obstacles are waiting for you. just focus on taking the next step.

　　5.走下去

　　“成功無止境，失敗還有救;重要的是要有勇氣玩下去。”

　　當你半路遇到困難，你可能想過要溜掉。你可能覺得難於上青天。你可能覺得自己白日夢做得太離譜。但就在這裡，成功者和失敗者的不同點就凸顯出來了。儘管他們遇到同樣的麻煩，有一點使成功者與眾不同：玩下去的勇氣。

　　困境裡，你應該集中精神向前邁多一步。別想著怎樣才能跑完。別想著前面還有多少障礙。只想著你的下一步。

　　6. let go of the past

　　finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could.

　　ralph waldo emerson

　　believe it or not, one of the best demotivators is your past. your past can drag you down before you realize it. your past can give you a heavy burden on your shoulders.

　　the good news is it’s a burden you don’t have to carry. take it off your shoulder and leave it. you might make mistakes in the past. you might disappoint others with what you did. but it’s over. it’s already in the past and there’s nothing you can do about it.

　　today is a new day and you have the chance to start again. no matter how bad your past might be, you still have a bright future ahead waiting for you. just don’t let the burden of the past stop you.

　　6.讓往事如煙飄走

　　“搞定每一天，你就能做任何能做的事。”

　　隨你相不相信，你的過去在擾亂軍心上可謂極具殺傷力。你還不知道，就給它扯了後腿。它給你背上了太重的負擔。不過，好訊息是這些負擔你根本用不著去背。拿下來扔掉吧。過去你可能犯了錯，可能因為自己的所做所為讓人大失所望。但都過去了，再怎麼樣你都沒法彌補了。

　　今天就是一個新的一天，你又有機會重新來過了。不管過去你多麼不走運，你仍然前程似錦。別讓那些過去的負擔束縛了你吖。

　　：A New Day 嶄新的一天

　　The sun has begun to set and I hang up the smile I’ve worn all day, though I will make sure it is the first thing I put back on in the morning just in case it is “that day.” I want her to see me at my very best.

　　太陽將要下山，我收起掛了一天的微笑，不過我會確保明天早上第一件事就是將它又掛回去，以防這天就是“那一天”。我希望她看到我的最佳狀態。

　　I do the normal routine, eat dinner, clean the house, write—the usual stuff. And then I lay down hoping to fall asleep quickly so my new day will hurry up and arrive. A new day with a brand new sun. But as I lay there and wait for the world to turn half way around, I think about her. And sometimes I smile, and sometimes that smile will turn into asnicker, and then often that snicker will turn into a burst of laughter.

　　我按平時的規律吃晚餐、打掃屋子、寫作——做著日常事務。然後我躺下，希望能快點入睡，新的一天就能快點到來——擁有新生太陽的嶄新的一天。可當我躺在那兒，等待著世界的日夜迴轉時，我想到了她。有時我會笑起來，有時那微笑變成了竊笑，然後竊笑又常常變成爆笑。

　　And then there are times I get that lump in my throat and that tight feeling in my chest, and sometimes that feeling overwhelms me and begins to turn into a tear, and often that tear multiplies itself and I can no longer fight the feeling and I lose the battle. Then somehow through either the joy or the sadness I drift and find myself asleep. Then the dreams begin and keep me company until my new day arrives.

　　也有些時候，我的喉嚨像是被一塊東西哽住了，胸口發悶;有時那種傷感席捲而來，我開始流淚，眼淚常常越流越多，我再也無力抵抗悲傷，敗下陣來。然後不知怎的，我在或喜悅或悲傷中飄蕩，逐漸入眠。然後夢境開始伴我左右，直至新的一天到來。

　　When I awake it’s with such excitement because I tell myself this could be the day that every other day has led up to and the first day of the rest of my life. I quickly don my smile because I do so want her to see me at my very best. Then I look out the window because, even though I know it’s dawn, I still have to confirm I’ve been given another chance to find her.

　　醒來時，我興奮不已，因為我告訴自己今天也許就是之前其他日子為之打下基礎的“那一天”，是我餘生的第一天。我迅速掛上微笑，因為我真的很想讓她看到我的最佳狀態。然後我朝窗外看去，因為即使我知道現在才剛剛破曉，我仍得確定自己可以與她再次邂逅。

　　And there it is…the sun, even when it’s cloudy; somehow I still see it. And it smiles at me and I say, “Thank you,” and I smile back.

　　它在那裡……太陽，雖然還是雲霧重重，但我還是看到它了。它朝我微笑，我道了聲“謝謝”，回以一笑。

　　Then I ask myself, “Is this the day?” And the excitement rushes over me again. And then I ask myself, “Where’s it going to be?”

　　然後我問自己：“今天就是那一天嗎?”興奮之情再次充溢全身。然後我問自己：“它會在哪裡呢?”

　　Maybe it’ll be at the water fountain, and, unexpectedly, there I’ll find her, and much more than my thirst will be quenched. Maybe it’ll be at the grocery store and there she’ll appear as I’m picking out fruit, and she’ll show me the difference between fresh and spoiled. Then, from that moment, nothing that I eat will ever taste the same because she’ll bring out the simplest beauties in everything I see, taste, smell, hear, or touch.

　　也許它會藏在飲水機裡，沒想到我真能在那裡找到她，為我生津止渴，取之不盡。也許它會躲在雜貨店裡，我拿起水果的時候，她就出現了，她會給我展示新鮮和變質的不同。然後，從那一刻開始，我所嚐到的一切味道不再一樣，因為但凡我看到的、嚐到的、聞到的、聽到的或摸到的東西，她都帶出了它們最簡單的美麗。

　　Or maybe today will be the day when my angel brings an item up to the cash register without its price tag. And as I wait behind this angel with all the frustrated people who are in such a hurry with their busy lives, I will find myself with such blessed extra time. Just enough time to start a conversation with this beautiful vision standing in front of me that I might not otherwise have noticed, but, because of a “price check on register 5,” I was able to find her.

　　或許就在今天，我的天使把一件沒有價格標籤的商品拿到收銀臺。我在天使身後排隊，看著身心疲憊的人們忙忙碌碌地過日子，慶幸自己得到了這樣的額外時間，讓我可以和麵前的倩影閒聊一會兒，否則我也許會錯過，但只因為一句“請到5號收銀臺付款”，我就能找到她。

　　Thank you for the sun, which began my new day. Thank you for granting me the faith when I arose this morning that I would find her in this new day. But most of all, thank you for me not having to ever wait on another sunrise because whenever I want to see it, I will look at her and there it shall always be, in her eyes; she will forever hold it for me.

　　感謝太陽，它是新一天的開始。感謝你讓我今早一起床就滿懷信心，知道自己能在這新的一天找到她。但最要感謝的是我不必再等下一個日出，因為無論我想何時看到它，我都可以看向她，它總會出現在她的雙眸裡;她永遠為我留著。

　　She is my sunrise, my dawn, my new day.

　　她是我的日出，我的黎明，我嶄新的一天。

　　：You Have Only One Life

　　There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! Dream what you want to dream;go where you want to go;be what you want to be,because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

　　May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,enough trials to make you strong,enough sorrow to keep you human,enough hope to make you happy? Always put yourself in others’shoes.If you feel that it hurts you,it probably hurts the other person, too.

　　The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.Happiness lies for those who cry,those who hurt, those who have searched,and those who have tried,for only they can appreciate the importance of people

　　who have touched their lives.Love begins with a smile,grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in lifeuntil you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

　　When you were born,you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.Live your life so that when you die,you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

　　Please send this message to those people who mean something to you,to those who have touched your life in one way or another,to those who make you smile when you really need it,to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down,to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship.And if you don’t, don’t worry,nothing bad will happen to you,you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone’s day with this message.