Danh ngôn của Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Tôi thấy điều tuyệt vời trên thế giới này không phải là chúng ta đang đứng ở đâu, mà là chúng ta đang đi theo hướng nào: Để đến được bến cảng thiên đường, chúng ta phải chèo thuyền đôi khi thuận gió và đôi khi ngược gió - nhưng chúng ta phải chèo thuyền, chứ không phải trôi dạt, cũng không nằm ở neo.
Tác giả: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Chuyên mục: Great | Sứ mệnh: [4]
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- I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
- I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
- Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
- Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
- The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng chuyên mục: Great
- Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
- What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.
- Great necessities call out great virtues.
- My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.