英语励志文章：just for today

just for today i will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life problem at once. i can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if i had to keep it up for a lifetime.

just for today i will be happy. this assumes to be true what abraham lincoln said，that “most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

just for today i will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. i will take my “luck” as it comes.

just for today i will try to strengthen my mind. i will study. i will learn something useful. i will not be a mental loafer. i will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

just for today i will exercise my soul in three ways. i will do somebody a good turn and not get found out: if anybody knows of it, it will not count. i will do at least two things i don't want to do—just for exercise. i will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt: they may be hurt, but today i will not show it.

just for today i will be agreeable. i will look as well as i can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously, criticize not one bit，and try not to improve or regulate anybody but myself.

just for today i will have a program, i may not follow it exactly, but i will have it. i will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.

just for today i will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax. during this half hour, sometime, i will try to get a better perspective of my life.

just for today i will be unafraid. especially i will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful，and to believe that as i give to the world, so the world will give to me.

参考翻译：

《就为了今天》

就为了今天，我将尽力只度过今天而不立刻去解决终身的问题。对一件令我沮丧而又必须坚持一辈子的事，我只能坚持十二个小时。

就为了今天，我会很快乐。亚伯拉罕-林肯说过，“大多数人都是决定想怎么高兴就怎么高兴。”这已经被认为是真理。

就为了今天，我会做自我调整适应事物本来的面目，而不是想方设法使每一件事满足自己的欲望。当机会来临的时候我会抓住它。

就为了今天，我会尽力心强志坚。我会学习，学一些有用的东西。我不会做一个精神上的流浪汉。我会读一些需要努力、思考和注意力集中的东西。

就为了今天，我会用三种方法来磨炼我的灵魂。我会做对某人有利的事但不能被发现，若有人发现了就不算数。我将会做至少两件我不愿做的事情——只为了磨练。我不会让任何人感到我的感情受到了伤害：它们可能受到了伤害，但今天我不想表现出来。

就为了今天，我会过得很惬意。看起来我达到了最佳状态，穿着得体、讲话谦虚、行为礼貌、一点不吹毛求疵，尽量改进和调节自己而不是别人。

就为了今天，我会制定一个计划，我也许不会严格地遵守它，但我一定要有计划。我会避免两种错误：仓促行事和优柔寡断。

就为了今天，我将会独自静静地呆上半小时放松。在这半小时里，某个时刻，我会日后对我的生活有个更好的看法。

就为了今天，我将不再害怕。尤其我不会再害怕享受美丽的事物，并且相信我给予世界的，世界也会给予我。

英语励志文章：变老的那一天

“i dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, ”it makes me realize i am growing old.“

william james, the great psychologist, said that most men are ”old fogies at twenty-fivehe was right. most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. they have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their “principles, ” and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.

the minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. on the other hand, the really great man never grows old.

goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his faust only a few years earlier; gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. he died crying, “what we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense.”

and there you have the real answer to the question, “when is a man old?”

laplace at seventy-eight died young. he was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.

as long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , “i grew,” he is still young.

the minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, “i know all that i need to know,”--that day youth stops. he may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. on that day he begins to be old.

“我惧怕临近岁末年尾”，一位朋友最近对我说：“它使我意识到我正在变老。”

伟大的心理学家威廉？詹姆斯就曾说过，大多数人“25岁时就成了守旧落伍者”。他的话是对的。大多数人25岁时就满足于他们的工作。他们已经积累了一些他们称之为“原则”的偏见，对所有新的思想关闭心灵之门；他们已经停止成长。

一个人一旦停止成长--不管他年龄多大--他就开始衰老。反之，真正的伟人从来不会衰老。

歌德享年83岁，逝世前几年才完成《浮士德》；格莱斯顿70岁时又开始学习一门外国语；法国天文学家拉普拉斯78岁死时还在工作着。临死前，他大声喊道：“我们所知的太少太少，我们所不知的太多太多。”

“一个人何时变老？”，从这类事例中对这个问题你已经有了真正的答案。

拉普拉斯78岁逝世时依然年轻。他依旧不满足，依旧感到许多东西要学。

一个人，只要他能够保持这种心态，只要他在回首过去的一年时能够说“我在成长”，他就依然年轻。

他一旦停止成长，他一旦对自己说“我该懂的都懂了”，这个时候他的青春也就完了。他可能在25岁时死去，也可能在75岁时死去，这都没有区别。就在那一天，他开始变老。 （励志演讲）

英语励志文章：逆境

there is no better school than adversity. every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve my performance next time. never again will i contribute to my downfall by refusing to face the truth and learn from my past mistakes. because i know: gems cannot shine without polish, and i can not perfect myself without hardship.

now i know that there are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do gathers so richly about my soul when it has to suffer cruel adversity. then everything depends on whether i raise my head or lower it in seeking help. whenever i am struck down, in the future, by any terrible defeat, i will inquire of myself, after the first pain has passed, how i can turn that adversity into good. what a great opportunity that moment may present……to take the bitter root i am holding and transform it into fragrant garden of flowers.

always will i seek the seed of triumph in every adversity.

译文：

逆境是一所最好的学校。每一次失败，每一次打击，每一次损失，都蕴育着成功的萌芽，都教会我在下一次有更出色的表现。我再也不会逃避现实，也不会拒绝从以往的错误中获取经验，我不再因此而促成自己的失败。因为我知道，宝玉不经磨砺就不能发光，没有，我也不能完善自我。

现在我知道，灵魂倍受煎熬的时刻，也正是生命中最多选择与机会的时刻。任何事情的成败取决于我在寻求帮助时是抬起头还是低下头。无论何时，当我被可怕的失败击倒，在最初的阵痛过去之后，我都要想方设法将苦难变成好事。伟大的机遇就在这一刻闪现——这苦涩的根必将迎来满园芬芳！

英语励志文章

《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.