優美勵志散文5篇

勵志，即是喚醒一個人的內在創造力。惟有從內心深處展開的力量，用心靈體驗總結出的精華，纔是一個人真正獲得尊嚴和自信的途徑。

　　志存高遠便是成功之道The Road to Success

It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom，and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices，and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning，the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.

年輕人創業之初，應該從最底層幹起，這是件好事。匹茲保有很多商業巨頭，在他們創業之初，都肩負過“重任”：他們以掃帚相伴，以打掃辦公室的方式度過了他們商業生涯中最初的時光。我注意到我們現在辦公室裏都有工友，於是年輕人就不幸錯過了商業教育中這個有益的環節。如果碰巧哪天上午專職掃地的工友沒有來，某個具有未來合夥人氣質的年輕人會毫不猶豫地試着拿起掃帚。在必要時新來的員工掃掃地也無妨，不會因爲而有什麼損失。我自己就曾經掃過地。

Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.

假如你已經被錄用，並且有了一個良好的開端，我對你的建議是：要志存高遠。一個年輕人，如果不把自己想象成一家大公司未來的老闆或者是合夥人，那我會對他不屑一顧。不論職位有多高，你的內心都不要滿足於做一個總管，領班或者總經理。要對自己說：我要邁向頂尖!要做就做你夢想中的國王!

And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

成功的首要條件和最大祕訣就是：把你的精力，思想和資本全都集中在你正從事的事業上。一旦開始從事某種職業，就要下定決心在那一領域闖出一片天地來;做這一行的領導人物，採納每一點改進之心，採用最優良的設備，對專業知識熟稔於心。

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." is all wrong. I tell you to "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.

一些公司的失敗就在於他們分散了資金，因爲這就意味着分散了他們的精力。他們向這方面投資，又向那方面投資;在這裏投資，在那裏投資，到處都投資。“不要把所有的雞蛋放在一個籃子裏”的說法大錯特錯。我要對你說：“把所有的雞蛋都放在一個籃子裏，然後小心地看好那個籃子。”看看你周圍，你會注意到：這麼做的人其實很少失敗。看管和攜帶一個籃子並不太難。人們總是試圖提很多籃子，所以纔打破這個國家的大部分雞蛋。提三個籃子的人，必須把一個頂在頭上，而這個籃子很可能倒下來，把他自己絆倒。美國商人的一個缺點就是不夠專注。

To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm's interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says,"no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves."

把我的話歸納一下：要志存高遠;不要出入酒吧;要滴酒不沾，或要喝也只在用餐時喝少許;不要做投機買賣;不要寅吃卯糧;要把公司的利益當作自己的利益;取消訂貨的目的永遠是爲了挽救貨主;要專注;要把所有的雞蛋放在一個籃子裏，然後小心地看好它;要量入爲出;最後，要有耐心，正如愛默生所言，“誰都無法阻止你最終成功，除非你自己承認自己失敗。”

You Have Only One Life生命只有一次

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.

生活中，有時強烈的思念使我們恨不得一把將所愛的人從夢中帶走，實實在在地擁抱他們。做自己想做的夢吧，生命只有一次，機會只有一回。

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

願你有足夠的歡樂，使自己甜蜜;有足夠的考驗，使自己堅強;有足夠的悲傷，使自己富有人情;有足夠的希望;使自己幸福。要經常換位思維一件事，要是你感到對自己有傷害，就可能對他人也有傷害。

The happiest 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 life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

最幸福的人並不是那些擁有最好的東西的人，他們只是能夠將得到的東西變得最好。幸福屬於那些會哭泣的人，那些受過傷害的人，那些探索的人，以及那些嘗試過的人。只有他們才懂得對自己生活有影響的人們的重要。愛以微笑開始，在親吻中成長，以淚水終結。光明燦爛的明天建立在忘卻的過去之上。只有讓以往的失敗和傷心隨風而去，你才能過得更好。

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.

出生的時候，哭啼的是你，周圍的人卻在微笑。珍視生活，好好地活着，這樣當你死去時，周圍的人在哭泣，而你卻在微笑。

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 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.

請把這些語言送給那些你所關心的人，那些在生活中這樣或那樣同自己打交道的人，那些需要時能給你帶來微笑的人，那些在逆境中依然能使你看到光明的人，那些你珍視與他們之間的友誼的人。即使你沒有這樣做，也不要緊。沒有什麼大不了的事情，你只是錯過了用這些言語照亮他人日子的機會。

成功是否遙不可及

Once upon a time, there is a Health and leprosy patient, the disease nearly 40 years, has been lying on the roadside, he said, referring to such people to have the magic of the pool edge. But he lay there nearly 40 years. Still not to the pool half goal.

從前，有個生麻瘋病的病人，病了近40年，一直躺在路旁，等人把他指到有神奇力量的水池邊。但是他躺在那兒近40年。仍然沒有往水池目標邁進半步。

One day, God met him and asked: "Sir, you have to not be healing, the lifting of the disease?"

有一天，天神碰見了他，問道：“先生，你要不要被醫治，解除病魔?”

Leprosy patients that said: "Of course! Sinister but good people, they are after nothing but themselves, will not help me."

那麻瘋病人說：“當然要!可是人心好險惡，他們只顧自己，絕不會幫我。”

Hearing God, again, he said: "Would you like to be the treatment?"

天神聽後，再問他說：“你要不要被醫治?”

"We should, of course, to you! But waiting for me to climb over the past, the water dried up."

“要，當然要啦!但是等我爬過去時，水都乾涸了。”

God listened to the leprosy patients, then after a little angry, ask him once: "You should not be healing in the end?"

天神聽了那麻瘋病人的話後，有點生氣，再問他一次：“你到底要不要被醫治?”

He said: "To!"

他說：“要!”

God replied: "Well, you now stand up on their side to come to the pool, do not always find some reason can not be completed for their own defense."

天神回答說：“好，那你現在就站起來自己走到那水池邊去，不要老是找一些不能完成的理由爲自己辯解。”

Upon hearing this, and that leprosy patients are deeply ashamed and immediately stood up and went to the water edge, containing the heart of God with his hands a few water to drink. Twinkling of an eye, his struggle for nearly 40 years of leprosy even better!

聽後，那麻瘋病人深感羞愧，立即站起身來，走向池水邊去，用手心盛着神水喝了幾口。剎那間，他那糾纏了近40年的麻瘋病竟然好了!

別讓無用的淚水熄滅重新點燃的蠟燭

A man had a little daughter—an only and much-loved child. He lived for her—she was his life. So when she became ill， he became like a man possessed， moving heaven and earth to bring about her restoration to health.

一個男人有一個小女兒，那是唯一的孩子，他深深地愛着她，爲她而活，她就是他的生命。所以，當女兒生病時，他像瘋了一般竭盡全力想讓她恢復健康。

His best efforts， however， proved unavailing and the child died. The father became a bitter recluse， shutting himself away from his many friends and refusing every activity that might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a dream.

然而，他所有的努力都無濟於事，女兒還是死了。父親變得痛苦遁世，避開了許多朋友，拒絕參加一切能使他恢復平靜，回到自我的活動。但有一天夜裏，他做了一個夢。

He was in heaven， witnessing a grand pageant of all the little child angels. They were marching in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic child carried a candle. He noticed that one child‘s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own little girl. Rushing to her， he seized her in his arms， caressed her tenderly， and then asked， “How is it， darling， that your candle alone is unlighted?” “Daddy， they often relight it， but your tears always put it out.”

他到了天堂，看到所有的小天使都身穿白色天使衣，手裏拿着一根蠟燭。他注意到有一個小天使的蠟燭沒有點亮。隨後，他看到那個拿着沒有點亮的蠟燭的小天使是自己的女兒。他奔過去，一把將女兒抱在懷裏，親切地愛撫着她，然後問道：“寶貝兒，爲什麼只有你的蠟燭沒有點亮呢?”“爸爸，他們經常重新點亮蠟燭，可是你的眼淚總是把它熄滅。”

Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was crystal clear， and its effects were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse， but mingled freely and cheerfully with his former friends and associates. No longer would his darling‘s candle be extinguished by his useless tears.

就在這時，他從夢中醒來。夢給他上的一課像水晶般透明，而且立竿見影。從那個時刻起，他不再消極遁世，而是自由自在，興高采烈的回到從前的朋友和同事們中間。寶貝女兒的蠟燭再也沒有被他無用的眼淚熄滅過。

不做有才華的窮人

The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people. We meet them every day. A few days ago, my car was not running well. I pulled it into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes. He knew what was wrong by simply listening to the engine. I was amazed. The sad truth is, great talent is not enough.

世界上滿坑滿谷都是精明能幹、才華橫溢、學富五車以及極具天賦之人，我們每天都會見到他們。幾天前，我的汽車運轉不靈了。我把它開進維修廠，一位年輕的機械工只消幾分鐘就把它修好了。他僅憑傾聽發動機的聲音就能確定哪兒有毛病，這讓我驚奇不已。然而遺憾的是，光有非凡才華是不夠的。

I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn. I heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100,000 a year. A business consultant who specializes in1 the medical trade was telling me how many doctors, dentists and chiropractors2 struggle financially. All this time, I thought that when they graduated, the dollars would pour in. It was this business consultant who gave me the phrase, “They are one skill away from great wealth.” What this phrase means is that most people need only to learn and master one more skill and their income would jump exponentially3. I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy4 of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier. When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.

我常常吃驚，爲什麼有才華的人卻只有微薄的收入。前幾天我聽人說，只有不到5%的美國人年收入在10萬美元以上。一位精通藥品貿易的商務顧問曾經告訴我，有許多醫生、牙醫和按摩師生活拮据。以前我總以爲他們一畢業，財源便會滾滾而來。這位商務顧問告訴了我一句話：“離發大財，他們還差一項技能。”這句話的意思是說，大部分人還需多學習並掌握一項技能，他們的收入才能呈指數倍增長。以前我提到過，財商是會計、投資、市場營銷和法律方面的能力綜合。將上述四種專業技能結合起來，以錢生錢就會更容易。說到錢，大部分人所知的唯一技能就是拼命工作。

When I graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1969, my educated dad was happy. Standard Oil of California had hired me for its oil-tanker fleet. I had a great career ahead of me, yet I resigned5 after six months with the company and joined the Marine Corps to learn how to fly. My educated dad was devastated. Rich dad congratulated me.

1969年，我從美國海運學院畢業了。我那有學識的爸爸十分高興，因爲加州標準石油公司錄用我爲它的油輪隊工作。儘管我的未來前程遠大，但我還是在6個月後辭職離開了這家公司，加入海軍陸戰隊去學習飛行。對此我那有學識的爸爸非常傷心，而富爸爸則祝賀我做出的決定。

Job security meant everything to my educated dad. Learning meant everything to my rich dad. Educated dad thought I went to school to learn to be a ship's officer. Rich dad knew that I went to school to study international trade. So as a student, I made cargo runs, navigating6 large freighters7, oil tankers and passenger ships to the Far East and the South Pacific. While most of my classmates, including Mike, were partying at their fraternity8 houses, I was studying trade, people and cultures in Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Korea and the Philippines. I also was partying, but it was not in any frat house. I grew up rapidly.

對於有學識的爸爸來說，穩定的工作就是一切。而對於富爸爸來說，學習纔是一切。有學識的爸爸以爲我上學是爲了做一名船長，而富爸爸明白我上學是爲了學習國際貿易。因此，在做學生時，我跑過貨運、爲前往遠東及南太平洋的大型貨輪、油輪和客輪導航。當我的大部分同班同學，包括邁克，在他們的聯誼會會堂舉辦晚會的時候，我正在日本、泰國、新加坡、中國香港、越南、韓國和菲律賓學習貿易、人際關係和文化。我也參加晚會，但不去任何聯誼會，我迅速地成熟起來了。

There is an old cliché that goes, “Job is an acronym9 for 'Just Over Broke.'” And unfortunately, I would say that the saying applies to millions of people. Because school does not think financial intelligence is intelligence, most workers “live within their means10.” They work and they pay the bills. Instead I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the “Rat Race11”. Once people are trapped in the lifelong process of bill paying, they become like those little hamsters12 running around in those little metal wheels.

常言道，“工作(job)就是‘比破產強一點(Just Over Broke)’的縮寫”。然而不幸的是，這句話確實適用於千百萬人，因爲學校沒有把財商看作是一種才智，大部分工人都“量入爲出”：幹活掙錢，支付賬單。相反，我勸告年輕人在尋找工作時要看看能從中學到什麼，而不是隻看能掙到多少。在選擇某種特定職業之前或是陷入 “老鼠賽跑(激烈的競爭)”之前，要好好掂量自己到底需要獲得什麼技能。一旦人們爲支付賬單而整天疲於奔命，就和那些在小鐵輪裏不停奔跑轉圈的小老鼠一樣了。

Their little furry legs are spinning furiously, the wheel is turning furiously, but come tomorrow morning, they'll still be in the same cage: great job.

老鼠的小毛腿跑得飛快，小鐵輪也轉得飛快，可到了第二天早上，他們發現自己依然困在同一個老鼠籠裏，那就是：重要的工作。

When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald's is excellent at business systems. The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on building a better hamburger and know little or nothing about business systems. The world is filled with talented poor people. All too often, they're poor or struggle financially or earn less than they are capable of, not because of what they know but because of what they do not know. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger.

當我在自己教授的班級上問到“你們當中有多少人做的漢堡包能比麥當勞更好”時，幾乎所有的學生都舉起了手。我接着問，“如果你們當中大部分人都能做出比麥當勞更好的漢堡包，那爲什麼麥當勞比你們更能賺錢?” 答案是顯而易見的：麥當勞擁有一套出色的運營體系。許多才華橫溢的人之所以貧窮的原因，就是因爲他們只是專心於做更好的漢堡包，而對運營體系幾乎一無所知。世界上到處都是有才華的窮人。在很多情況下，他們之所以貧窮、生活拮据或者收入與其能力不相符，不是因爲他們已知的東西而是因爲他們未知的東西。他們只將注意力集中在提高和完善做漢堡包的技術上，卻不注意提高有關漢堡包的銷售和送貨技能。