On Achieving Success

                                  Ernest Hemingway

We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be subordinate.

I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly. If it be wrong, leave it undone.

The men of history were not perpetually looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it. They did it so well that the wondering world sees them to be great, and labeled them accordingly.

To live with a high ideal is a successful life. it is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes a man strong. “Eternal vigilance,” it has been said, “is the price of liberty.” With equal truth it may be said,” Uncesasing effort is the price of success.”

If we do not work with our might, others will; and they will outstrip us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp.

Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.

The great and indispensable help to success is character. Character is a crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction. Every character is influenced by heredity, environment and education, but these apart, if every man were not to be great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist, and irresponsible creature of circumstances.

Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, is would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds places, another hovel. Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Wise men don’t care for what they can’t have.

                                 论成功

                      欧内斯特·海明威 （编译：王科军）

我们不可能把每条路都走一遍。坚定地走一条路才能赢得成功。我们必须有个其他从属的终生追求的目标。

我恨做事半途而废。如果这事是对的，就大胆地做；如果不对，则勿染指。

历史中的伟人并非终日照镜子来观瞻自己的形像。他们的形象来自对事业全身心的投入与追求。他们是那么卓越，世人据其成就相应标注，称之为伟人。

为崇高理想而活着是一种成功的生活。人变得强大的，不是因为这个做了什么，而是能努力去做什么。有人说，“恒久的警惕是自由的代价”，同样可说，“不懈努力是成功的代价”。

倘若我们不尽全力工作，别人会，随后他们将在竞争中超越我们，从我们手中夺去胜利的果实。

成功越来越不依赖运气和巧合。丧失自信是我们失败的主要原因。

性格是取得成功决不可或缺的助力。性格是一种具体化的习惯，是经过训练和思维定势的结果。每个人的性格都会受到遗传因素、环境和教育的影响。除此外，如果人在很大程度上不能成为自己性格的构建者，那么他会沦为宿命论者,成为世事的失败造物。

 与其说人是环境的造物，不如说人是环境的建筑师更贴恰。同样的材料，有人能用其建造出宫殿，而有人只建了不适的小屋。在建筑师将他们建成物前，砖泥仍然是砖泥。

真正的获得更多的方法是永远不想获得太多。