A good book is a good friend.
好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不耻下问才能有学问。
As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
Books and friends should be few but good.
读书如交友，应求少而精。
Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
择书如择友。
Complacency is the enemy of study.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。
Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
Custom makes all things easy.
有个好习惯，事事皆不难。
Do nothing by halves.
凡事不可半途而废。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命运自己掌握。
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
Fools haste is no speed.
欲速则不达。
Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
机遇偏爱善断之人。
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不过是勤奋而已。

God helps those who help themselves.
自助者天助。
He is wise that is honest.
诚实者最明智。
He laughs best who laughs last.
谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。
He who does not advance loses ground.
逆水行舟，不进则退。
Honesty is the best policy.
做人诚信为本。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
要想求知，就得吃苦。
Industry is the parent of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
It is never too old to learn.
活到老，学到老。
It is the first step that costs troublesome.
万事开头难。
Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
Learn and live.
活着，为了学习。
Learn to walk before you run.
先学走，再学跑。
Life is but a span.
人生苦短。
Lost time is never found again.
岁月既往，一去不回。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
Never say die.
永不言败。
No cross, no crown.
不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。
No man can do two things at once.
一心不可二用。
No man is born wise or learned.
没有生而知之者。
No one can call back yesterday.
昨日不会重现。
No pleasure without pain.
没有苦就没有乐。
No sweet without sweat.
先苦后甜。
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事，只要肯登攀。
Nothing seek, nothing find.
没有追求就没有收获。
Not to advance is to go back.
不进则退。
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
争分夺秒效率高。
Ones words reflect ones thinking.
言为心声。
Pleasure comes through toil.
苦尽甘来。
Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
骄傲使人落后。
Reading enriches the mind.
开卷有益。
Success belongs to the persevering.
坚持就是胜利。
The more noble, the more humble.
人越高尚，越谦虚。
There is no royal road to learning.
书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。
The world is but a little place, after all.
海内存知己，天涯若比邻。
Time lost cannot be won again.
时光流逝，不可复得。
Time past cannot be called back again.
时间不能倒流。
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
滴水穿石。
Well begun is half done.
好的开始，是成功的一半。
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
自己的好事别去提，别人的恩惠要铭记。
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
不管做什么，都要一心一意。
What we do willingly is easy.
愿者不难。
Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成。
Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。