成功需要勤奋英语通用20篇

Stick to SuccessAlmost all people work hard for success， but not all people can success. Many people ask how to make success. I think the answer is persistence. The way to success is full of failure and difficulty. People should never give up when meet them. If you give up， you can’t be successful. No matter how hard it is， persistence must be there.

可以投稿 ，可我最喜欢的还是《红舞鞋》这本书，它使我受益匪浅。

一天，我在《儿童文学》上看到一本名叫《红舞鞋》的书，便叫妈妈订购了这本书。一拿到《红舞鞋》，我便一口气花了一下午的时间读完了这本书。《红舞鞋》以女孩李莎莎为主人公，讲述了一个丑小鸭变天鹅的故事。平凡的李莎莎在一次十分偶然的机会下，被选中加入舞蹈队，并得到参加舞蹈大赛的比赛资格。之后，误解、背叛、伤害纷纷向李莎莎袭来，其间还穿插的大人们的纠结往事，但无论身处何种境况，李莎莎始终没有放弃自己，而是始终保持着一颗善良、勇敢的心，去用真心对待每一个人，每一件事。最后成功地赢得了所有人的尊重，蜕变成为了一只美丽的白天鹅。读完这本书，我深深地喜欢上这本书。文中李莎莎坚持不懈，遇到困难勇敢面对的精神令我敬佩。是啊!我们的成长过程何尝不是这样呢?只要我们遇到困难时，用乐观、坚强、自信、独立的态度去面对，就一定会成功。

像李莎莎的这种事例还有很多。比如自幼家境贫寒的著名作家安徒生，安徒生是丹麦著名作家。他生于一个鞋匠家庭，自幼家境贫寒，少年时即在外四处流浪，十四岁时独自去哥本哈根在剧院里打杂，他在艰苦的环境中努力奋斗，17岁时终于走上文学创作的道路，在文学方面取得突出的成就，他一生共创作了168篇童话，成为世界公认的“童话故事大王”。正如安徒生自己的人生格言一样：攀登上一个阶梯，这固然很好，只要还有力气，那就意味着必须再继续前进一步。我们只要像安徒生那样，不管有过怎样的痛苦，或者正在经历怎样的磨难，都不要放弃希望，请相信，会有成功并且耀眼的那一天。

人生的成长历程，就像一颗未经打磨的珍珠砂，必须经过不断的打磨，才能变得圆润、白皙又光滑，才能变成耀眼的珍珠。

成功源于勤奋，这是一个显而易懂的道理，古今中外的伟人那个不勤奋?“科学是为那些勤奋的人，诗歌更是为了那些知识渊博的人。”

在美国，有一个人在一年之中的每一天里，几乎都做着同一件事：天刚放亮，就伏在打字机前开始一天的写作。这个男人名叫斯蒂芬·金，是国际闻名的恐怖小说大师。

斯蒂芬·金的经历十分坎坷，他曾经潦倒得连电话费都交不出，电话公司因此而掐断了他的电话线。后来，他成了世界上著名的恐怖小说大师，整天稿约不断，常常是一部小说还在他的大脑中储存着，出版社高额的订金就支付给了他。如今，他算是世界大富翁了，可他仍然是在勤奋的创作中度过的。

斯蒂芬·金的秘诀很简单，只有两个字：勤奋。一年之中，他只有三天时间是例外的，不写作。这三天是：生日、圣诞节、美国独立日(国庆节)。勤奋给他带来的好处是，永不枯竭的灵感。学术大师季羡林老先生曾经说过：“勤奋出灵感。”

曾国藩是中国近代史上最有影响的人物之一，然而小时候的天赋却不高。有一天在家读书，对一篇文章不知道重复多少遍了，还在朗读，因为，他还没有背下来。这时候他家来了一个贼，潜伏在他的屋檐下，希望等读书人睡觉之后捞点好处。可是等啊等，就是不见他睡觉，还是翻来覆去地读那篇文章。贼人大怒，跳出来说：“这种水平读什么书?”然后将那文章背诵一遍，扬长而去!

贼人是很聪明，至少比曾先生要聪明，但是他只能成为贼，而曾先生却成为毛泽东主席都钦佩的人：“近代最有大本事的人。”

“勤能补拙是良训，一分辛苦一分才。”那贼的记忆力真好，听过几遍的文章都能背下来，而且很勇敢，见别人不睡觉居然可以跳出来“大怒”，教训曾先生之后，还要背书，扬长而去。但是遗憾的是，他名不见经传，曾先生后来启用了一大批人才，按说这位贼人与曾先生有一面之交，大可去施展一二，可惜，他的天赋没有加上勤奋，变得不知所终。

这不正说明即使天分非常高，但如果后天不努力，也是没用的。那为什么还有那么多耍小聪明的人呢?

成功要有信心要用努力去奋斗，要用失败去磨练。

六岁那年，我嚷着要学骑自行车。刚开始，就出师不利，总是接二连三的摔倒。“这是怎么回事啊？”我懊恼地问我的母亲。我的母亲微笑着给我讲了窍门，我听完恍然大悟，这回我信心十足地把一直脚踏上踏板，另一只脚使劲蹬地，纵身一跃，上了自行车。可劲太大了，车子摇晃起来，摔了我个“四脚朝天。”“什么破车呀，我不学了。”“你骑得太快了，要稳着点，再来！”“失败是成功之母，难道你忘了吗？”听了这话，我不好意思地点了点头，揉了揉屁股，拍了拍土，又上了自行车。

我又继续练习，可是顾着握车把就忘了脚，顾着脚车把又左摇右摆。唉！两只眼睛不够使啊！“坚持！你一定行的！”这时，传来了我的母亲鼓励的声音。慢慢的，我掌握了窍门，既要让车稳，又要刹得住车，得全神贯注，手脚协调。我坐上自行车，脚踏踏板，双手紧握车把，眼睛紧盯前方，车平稳的向前驶去。“儿子，就这样，继续！”那边不时传来我的母亲的鼓励声。渐渐的，我放松下来，车速快了许多。我的母亲向我竖起了大拇指，我开心极了。

看来要想成功，就一定要坚持。

（一）

自信心，是一种相信自己的心态，是相信自己，是相信自己有能力实现自己的愿望的心态，是对自己力量的充分肯定。

——题记

在这个竞争激烈的社会上，我们要不被淘汰，就一定要具备成功的心理素质——自信。

无数的成功人士为我们做好了榜样：毛泽东，周恩来，李小双……不自信的人就永远不会相信别人，也就无法走出自己的误区。人需要自信，也需要别人的信任，只有你自己相信自己，然后别人才会相信自己。

着名的交响乐指挥家小泽征尔，在一次世界优秀指挥家大赛中，他按照评委给他的乐谱指挥演奏时，敏锐地发现了不和谐的声音。起初，他以为是乐队演奏出了问题，就停下来重新演奏，但还是不对。他就觉得是乐谱有问题。这时，在场的作曲家和应约会的权威人士都坚持说乐谱绝对没有问题，是他错了。面对一大批音乐大师和权威人士，最后斩钉截铁地说：“不，一定是乐谱错了！”话音刚落，评委席上的评委立即站起来报以热烈的掌声，祝贺他大赛夺魁。原来，这是评委们精心设计的“圈套”。小泽征尔因为充满自信而摘取了桂冠。

这个故事让我们看到了自信的重要性，自信是成功者必备的条件，可以说只有自信，才能成功！

人生不如意的事十之八九，可以说自信是最好的解决方法。相信自己的能力，并从现在开始不断努力，必然回一步步接近成功！

（二）

许多人都会问我认为成功最需要什么，我会毫不犹豫的说：“是自信，一个人连自信都没了，他怎么还能成功呢？”自信，顾名思义，就是自己对自己有信心，每件成功的事背后，都少不了自信。

记得那是前一段时间发生的一件事，我在家里做奥赛题，可那道题特别难，我算了好几遍都没算出来，我想这道题我肯定算不出来，正准备看书上答案时，又一想，我这不是自己对自己失去信心吗？我这不是自己放弃自己吗？成功的背后需要自信和汗水，相信自己，我一定能行！又过了一会，经过冥思苦想，终于把这到题做出来了。

是啊！成功不是靠投机取巧，成功不是靠花言巧语，成功靠的是自信和辛苦的汗水呀！

两个人比赛，一个对自己充满信心，心里想的我能行！我一定能赢，另一个人对自己不抱希望，心里想着我如果输了该怎么办？你们说，他们两个谁能赢？答案是肯定的：第一个人一定赢，因为他对自己充满信心！

自信是成功的第一步，也是最重要的一步，如果这一步你走不好，那你将永远与成功擦肩而过！

（三）

每个人都有自己的发现，当然我也不例外。通过这几次考试，我又有力一个新的发现，那就是：成功需要自信。

人人都渴望成功。我也希望成功。但成功最需要的是什么呢？是勤奋，是能力，还是好的方法？或者是环境，是机遇吗？这些都不是成功必备的条件。在这几次考试后，我更加留心观察我的同学，终于发现成功最需要的是自信，它才是成功首要的条件。

我的同桌经常说：自信是成功的第一秘诀！开始，我还不相信，现在看来不得不信了。确实，自信是成功的动力。有自信才会为成功而奋斗，因为自信是对自己能力的充分相信与认识，相信自己就一定会成功。试想，一个人如果自暴自弃，一蹶不振，或悲观自卑，连起码的自信心都没有，一切还未开始，就觉得自己不行，这样成功道路上的拦路虎还未来，自己就已经被自己的不自信所吓倒，还如何谈成功呢？

自信是战胜一切困难的法宝，不论成功者还是失败者都承认成功的道路不是坦途，路上充满了艰难，阻险。奋斗中，很多人被暂时打败了还要闯进去，并最终取得成功。成功者与失败者之间最大的区别就在于有无信心。没有信心的人一旦遇到了困难就没有了战胜他的勇气，(.)斗志自然就会大减。这时要想获得成功真是难上加难不。而且这种人一旦失败，就会自暴自弃，一蹶不振。严格说起来这种人很大的程度上就是被自己打垮的。

再看充满信心的人，他们不管情况多么不利，都会始终保持着十分的信心，失败了重整旗数，再去努力。人们都知道这一样一个故事：一个将军打了六次败仗，当他在山洞里闷闷不乐时，看见蜘蛛在结网，结了七次才成功，将军很受鼓舞，率兵再次出战，终获大胜。人们都知道这是一个教育人做事要有耐心的故事，我觉得的这个故事也同样说明了用有自信心才会成功。因为战败了六次已灰心，若不是蜘蛛结网给了他自信，他又何来再战的信心呢？

我们还要谨记：自信不是自负，自负不但不会帮助你走向成功，还会适得其反。因此，只有相信自己的实力，善于观察，善于汲取生活中的能量，我们的明天才会更加灿烂与辉煌。

我们要谨记一句名言：自信是成功的第一秘诀！

[成功需要自信为题的优秀作文

文学家说，勤奋是打开文学殿堂之门的一把钥匙;科学家说，勤奋使人聪明;政治家说，勤奋是实现理想的基石。

业精于勤荒于嬉，汗水是滋润花蕾的甘露，勤奋是实现理想的阶梯。用勤奋的钥匙，打开知识的宝库，将理想变成现实。行事前，不要总想着是否能成功，既然选择了远方，就要直面，风雨兼程。每个人在抵达成功之前，都可能经历寒风冷雨。前行的路途中注定无法拒绝泥泞，要想实现理想，就必须勇敢的追寻，勤奋的探索。

勤奋，是理想大厦的基石。据说古希腊有一个叫德摩斯梯尼的人。从小口吃，但他立志要当一名演说家，所有人都笑话他痴人说梦。在成长的路上，他无数次被雄辩的对手驳倒，但他凭着自信和顽强的意志，一直在顽强的拼搏：每天口含石子，面对大海朗读;他边往山上跑，边朗诵诗歌。经过顽强的努力，终于成为当时希腊最有名的演说家，实现了自己的理想。

一个口吃患者，为什么会取得如此大的成功呢?归根究底，是他面对挫折不灰心，确定目标不放弃的结果。正如秋天成熟的果实，不是风，怕早已霉烂枝头;不是雨，怕早已枯落山沟。风吹雨打，给了它成熟的筋骨。光照日晒，给了它成熟的俊秀。是的，人生的风风雨雨，给了他历练的机会，勤奋努力的拼搏给了他成功的可能。

勤奋，是成功之门的钥匙。哪里有勤奋，哪里就有成功。孙敏苏秦若不是悬梁刺股，日夜苦读，怎能学问大增?祖狄刘琨闻若不是闻鸡起舞，勤练剑法，怎能成其报效国家之才?匡衡若不是凿壁借光，刻苦读书，怎能成为一代名家?王羲之若不是勤奋练字，墨池为证，怎能以着名书法家之名酬勤?

反之，失去勤奋，成功亦会远离。南朝诗人江淹，文思敏捷，才艺过人，被世人称为妙笔生花可是他仅仅陶醉在别人的赞许中，整日优哉游哉，最后文笔枯竭，只落得个江郎才尽的下场。够了，够了，不要再多举了。成功在于勤奋的道理不胜枚举了。

凡事勤则易，凡事惰则难。现实和理想，一个在脚下，一个在心中;一个实在，一个浪漫;一个把握现实，一个展望未来。只要你肯勤奋刻苦，你的理想就会变为现实。勤奋是火，点燃理想之灯;勤奋是灯，照亮人生之路;勤奋是路，引导我们走向成才的明天!既然成才的航船要以勤奋为风帆，就让我们升起勤奋之帆，去乘风破浪吧!

收到你的来信，倾听了你的烦恼，我有所感，为你寄去我的话语，希望能让你有所收获。

在信中，你不断抱怨，你的成绩越来越退步了，你越来越害怕一次又一次的考试，即使是班里的一次小测验，你说你的脑子越来越迟钝了，老师讲的一些简单的基础题都听不懂了，你很担忧。

我也算了解你，你太过消极太过自卑，回答问题时，声音也是细微蚊吟，综合上述情况，我认为你是缺少一样东西——自信。

自信对于人的成长有着很大的作用，它是你杀死前进路上拦路虎的利剑，可以帮助你走向成功的人生。

世界著名音乐家贝多芬，身材矮小，容貌丑陋，从小双目失明，两耳失聪，然而他靠着自信的人生态度和不屈不挠的毅力，最终完成了《第九交响曲》等世界名曲，成为音乐巨匠。哥白尼曾因反对地心说，相信日心说呗宗教和当时被封建思想禁锢的人们所唾骂，但他却一直检查自己的观点，毫不动摇，数年之后，他的观点被证实，受到人们的推崇。一代画家徐悲鸿，留学国外，遭到外国留学生的嘲笑和侮辱，他被激怒，决定用事实反驳那些学生，证明中国人的能力。于是，他每天省吃俭用，将心思和精力全部投入创作之中，终于有了《田横五百士》和《奔腾的骏马》……

上述的这些人，除了刻苦、坚毅，更重要的是有强烈的自信心。是自信支持着他们勇敢地走下去。如果没有自信的支撑，就会坚持不下去，因此，要想成功，必须自信。

而你，作为一个中学生，就更应该拥有中学生应有的青春和自信的风采。整天忧前虑后，只会更加颓废，更加失败。

自信是每一个人走向成功的动力，当你失败时，一定要对自己说：“没事，这是人生路上必不可少的磨砺，一次失败就积累一些经验，这一次犯错就是为了下一次不犯错、我相信，下一次我一定能成功。”

永远相信这句话。我能，我行，我成功。

希望我的建议能对你有所启发。

最后，祝愿你能自信地走入考场，取得圆满的成功。

成功是每一个人都希望的，不管是学业还是事业。成功能给人们带来喜悦。

怎么才能成功呢？伟大的发明家爱迪生说过，天才是靠99%的勤奋和1%的灵感。要想取得成功就必须勤奋努力。如果不努力，是不可能获得成功的。

在爱迪生发明耐用电灯泡之前，他曾做过千多次实验，但仍没有办法使灯丝能耐住高温。旁边有人说："算了吧！找不到就算了。你已经作了这么多次实验了，找不到，就不要白费力了，干点别的什么吧！"他却说："我一定要找到一种能耐住高温的材料，一定要把他找出来。"工夫不负有心人，他终于发明了耐用电灯泡，使全世界人民得到幸福，被誉为20世纪最伟大的发明之一。

我们需要学习他这种精神的，如果他不是坚持不懈地努力，是不可能发明耐用电灯泡的，可见成功是需要条件的，只要达到了成功所要求的条件，成功就容易了。

抓住机遇也是成功的条件之一。举例来说吧！世界首富比尔盖茨读大学时，敏锐地认识到计算机这门新兴的产业蕴藏的巨大的商机，他从哈佛大学退学了，与自己的朋友开了一家名叫微软的电脑公司，当时他的亲朋好友都反对他的做法，但比尔盖茨说，时间将证明，我这样做是对的。现在，计算机在各行各业中的广泛应用，给人们的工作和生活带来了巨大的变化，微软成为了世界上最大的软件商之一。

成功的条件还有很多，比如说自己的科学文化素质。没有好的基础知识，纵然刻苦努力和有天赐良机，还是不能取得成功的。还有离开了别人的帮助，要走上成功的道路，也是异常艰难的。

要想取得成功，需要努力和机遇。

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俗话说：“一份耕耘，一份收获。”很多事实都说明了这一点。

居里夫人在法国念书时，每天早晨总是第一个来到教室；每天晚上几乎都在图书室度过。图书室10点关门，回到自己的小屋后，她在煤油灯下继续读书，常常到夜里一两点钟。不仅居里夫人如此，许多成功者的事实都可以证明，勤奋可以创造成功，有天资的人要有作为是离不开勤奋的。

梅兰芳年轻时拜师学戏，但师傅说他根本不是学戏的料，不肯收留。为了使自己补足天资的缺陷，他反而更加勤奋。他喂鸽子，每天双眼紧跟飞翔的鸽子，穷追不舍；他养金鱼，每天双眼紧跟遨游的金鱼……后来，他的双眼闪闪生辉、脉脉含情，终于成为着名的京剧大师。梅兰芳没有天资，但勤奋补足了他缺陷的天资。因为勤，他成功了。大概“江郎才尽”的故事大家都知道，江淹年轻时很会作诗，但由于不注意勤奋学习，老时的诗文反而不不如以前了。

正因为有勤奋的学习，才使没有天资的人，照样可以有作为；但若有天资，但不注意后天的培养，不勤奋学习，不会有什么作为。

华罗庚有句名言：“勤能捕拙是良训，一分辛劳一分才。”那些自认为没有天赋的朋友不要悲观，要相信，只要付出勤奋的劳动，就一定成果；而那些很聪明的朋友们，也不要在夸耀声中骄傲，要明白，“一份耕耘，一份收获。”没有耕耘，是不会在丰收的季节获得硕果的。

[唯有勤奋才能成功作文

大家看到勤奋、懒惰与成功这个话题,应该都会不约而同地想起一句话那就是勤奋使人成功,懒惰导致失败。但是我今天却要提出我的另一个观点那就是在许多时候懒惰也会使人走向那成功的道路。

也许有人会说了，懒惰怎么可能成功呢?真是胡说八道。

对此我的回答是没错勤奋使人成功这个事实是不可否定的，但是你如果听了几件事，也许你就会同意我的观点的。

我曾经听别人讲过这样一个故事：在以前，美国有一家餐馆，就在餐厅中有两个服务员，一个很勤奋从来都不使小聪明脚踏实地，另一个服务员恰好相反她非常的懒惰而且爱耍小聪明。他们的故事就开始了。有一天餐厅中来了一位客人，他让甲(勤劳不耍小聪明的服务员)为他服务，客人开始吃饭了，他发现没筷子，就要了一双筷子，又发现没勺子，就要了一根勺子.....这样一而再，再而三，跑来跑去。第二次他就让乙(另一个服务员)为他服务，客人一坐下他就知道客人要什么一下子就全部递给他他就“一劳永逸"了而且节省客人的时间,最后乙得到了提升,而甲被开除了......

怎么样,我说的对吧!什么?这只是巧合?那我就给你举一个名人的例子吧!

大家应该知道瓦特和他发明出来的蒸汽机吧，你知道他为什么会发明蒸汽机吗?不知道吧那我来告诉你把：在瓦特很小的时候外婆就叫他帮忙看炉子上的水，而他却不想看，就想怎样才可以边休息边看水，他把自己的这一个想法告诉了自己的同学和玩伴而他却受到了讽刺和打击，而瓦特不理会他们，为了自己的这一点休息的时间继续努力，终于有了成果。如果没有有他这一个懒惰的想法，又怎么会有现在的蒸汽机呢?怎么样听了这两个例子你应该也同意我的观点了吧!所以说有的时候懒惰也是可以使人成功的。

我们都羡慕伟人们奇异的发明，文学家出类拔萃的文笔，可是仔细想想，他们中哪个不是勤奋好学的典范?俗话说，一份耕耘，一份收获。因此，一切有成就的人，都是勤奋者，勤奋是成功的必要条件。

汉代孙敬读书非常勤奋，为了防止自己睡着，他拿一根绳子系在头顶，另一端挂在屋梁上，令自己始终清醒，终于成为当世大学者。苏秦读书时也为了不犯困，用锥子刺击大腿，最终学成满腹经纶，挂大相国印，主持合纵抗秦大计。

著名音乐家贝多芬小时学弹钢琴的时候，专注得令人吃惊，手指在键盘上磨得滚烫滚烫。为了能长时间弹下去，他在琴旁放了一盆凉水，把手指浸在水中泡凉以后又接着弹。水撩到地板上积少成多，最后都从木板缝隙间漏到楼下房东的屋子里去了，他也毫无知觉，女房东经常为此大喊大叫。

勤奋是通往成功的必经之路。如果因为害怕艰苦而去另觅佳径，结果只能是既费时又没有成功，再聪明的人也无法成学。

南北朝时期的江淹，少时笃志好学，其诗幽丽精工，所作的《汉赋》、《别赋》脍炙人口。晚年过着满足安逸的生活，不再勤奋刻苦，再也写不出好的文章来，人们称之为“江郎才尽”。没有勤奋好学，又缺生活资料，怎么会写出好文章来呢?

由此可见，勤奋是我们人生中最不能放弃的东西，它是打开成功大门的金钥匙。我们有什么理由不去刻苦勤学，为自己的成功打好基础呢?

读书需要勤奋，读书没有什么捷径，只有勤奋，才能取得好的成绩。

古诗云：“书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟”。古有孙敬头悬梁、苏秦锥刺股等典故，被传为千古美谈，后有许多发奋读书的名人成为我们学习的楷模。

宋濂字景濂，他幼年家贫，常借书苦读。他在其《送东阳马生序》一文中，叙述了自己苦读的经历：他幼时就爱读书，可是家贫买不起书，就经常到有藏书的人家借书，一借到书，就日以继夜地赶抄，即使在数九寒天，砚水结冰，手指冻僵，也不停笔。

宋濂十年寒窗，家境虽贫，但他有志苦读，几十年如一日，壮志终酬，功名传千古。

从宋濂勤奋读书，最终取得杰出成就的事例中，我们可以感悟到：在浩瀚的学海中，也只有勇于逆水行舟的强者，才能到达胜利的彼岸。

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虽说失败乃成功之母，但要迈过失败这道坎，对于常人来说，需要能够承受失败所带来的巨大痛苦，需要有勇气在痛苦中总结经验和教训，需要有勇气去面对世人的热嘲冷讽，需要有勇气去坚定自己的意志和毅力，这样，才能一步一步走向成功。

偶有闲暇，回顾自己走过的五十年人生历程，事业虽然无成，但五十年的人生历程，每向前迈上一步，每一步都是艰辛，每一步都需要勇气。

孩提时代，几个小伙伴仅凭一盒火柴，一把烟火，便敢上山捣马蜂窝。有时，小伙伴们个个都被马蜂蜇得头青脸肿，好几天不能消散。现在想来，真是初生牛犊不怕虎，但正是这种不怕虎的稚嫩行为，培养了我们克服困难战胜困难的勇气。如果没有这种初生牛犊不怕虎的勇气，我们就无法品尝马蜂的美味，我们就无法有难以忘怀的童趣。

上世纪八十年代初，本人高中毕业第一次参加高考便榜上无名。失败的痛苦比马蜂蜇得更难受！但我不甘心，不甘心一辈子在农村修理地球，不甘心一辈子脸朝黄土背朝天！哪时的高考虽百里挑一，但凭着自己的决心和毅力，凭着不言败的勇气，经过两年的复读，终于考上师范大学。大学毕业时，第一次走上讲台，内心虽忐忑不安，但台下几十双求知的目光却给予了我勇气，这勇气让我在讲台上一站就是两年。

往事如烟，第一次恋爱，第一次跳槽，第一次写文章向报刊投稿，第一次写诗，第一次走上领导岗位。多少次的第一次，多少次的成功和泪水，都有勇气相伴！

[成功需要勇气作文550字

“梅花香自苦寒来”，漫天雪舞，周天寒彻，一树梅花迎风而立，含苞待放，几缕幽香已经迫不及待的飘逸而出，似有若无，惹人驻足。人们不知，正是这样严酷的寒冷逼迫，才使得梅花怒放枝头。树犹如此，人更是这样，前程似锦是外部环境和自我内心所逼的结果。

她，一个脆弱的生命，被世界遗弃，做上帝的弃儿，集聋哑盲于一身，内心肯定不是滋味，她痛苦，她挣扎，她曾经一度放弃，在消沉中度日，如同没有方向的船只，随波逐流，载沉载浮。直到有一天，生命中的第一缕曙光出现，温暖了她早已冰封的心。她的父母只为她提供了生活的需要，而她的老师却教给她知识，让她用独特的语言描绘那美丽的世界，她才发现这个世界竟然是那么美好。通过不懈的努力，她成了美国19世纪著名的作家、教育家、慈善家、社会活动家。是无数的苦难最终化为诸多的光环，上帝折断了她双翼，结果逼迫让她为自己重新插上翅膀再次飞翔。

时至今日，大千世界日新月异，外面的世界的确很精彩，但外面的世界真的很无奈，它逼着我们每一个人都不能躺在时间的温床上尽情享受，而是必须不断学习，不断超越。社会不容许我们整天浑浑噩噩的生活，故此学校把我们逼得很紧，早上起的比鸡早，晚上睡得比狗晚，但在这样的环境中，如果我们自己不逼自己，自己不改变自己，外界的逼迫再强大也也会无济于事，鸡蛋从内部打破是生命，而从外界打破只能成为他人桌上的一道菜。

故此，在强大的外压下，自己对自己的内压就显得格外重要。也许，我们都被上帝抛弃过，每个人都是一个被上帝咬过一口的苹果。或许我们曾臣服于命运的安排，在痛苦中挣扎。但是我们凭什么抛弃自己，妄自菲薄呢？别忘了我们是人，我们是高等动物，我们为何不努一下力呢，努力到无能为力，拼搏到感动自己，这样，你一定能够为自己逼出个似锦前程。

当然，机会是给有准备的大脑预备的，成功的奠基往往是充满了血和泪的交织。我们要想成功，就得逼自己不断上进，蝴蝶的翩翩起舞是美丽的，然而破茧成蝶的过程一定是痛苦的，我们渴望成功却不想努力，这可能吗？不可能，那你还不赶快努力，你还在等什么呢？

多逼一下自己吧！敢于和优秀的人竞争，向他们坦率的提出挑战，争分夺秒，脚踏实地，不负青春好时光，使自己的知识更丰富，思想更深刻，行为更儒雅。你也许最终成不了名人，但你却在奋斗中体验到了快乐——逆水行舟的感觉，逆风飞行的快乐！

叶落后，是归根；梦醒时，是孤灯。往事如烟，却美好如星，星星如梦，繁花浅淡，去逼一下自己吧，定能逼出个前程似锦。

下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言，考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章，然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。

对于素材中用黑体字的部分，特别建议你熟读，背诵，因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白，表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累，潜移默化。从某种意义上说，提高英语写作能力无捷径可走，你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关，没有任何人能代替你过。

因此，建议你下点苦功夫，把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况，并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心：你可以这个星期背，下个星期忘。这没有关系，相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你会惊讶的发现：I can think in English now！

1.?????? Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.

2. Damaging Research

A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.

3. Education and Citizenship

An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.

Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.

Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.

Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.

4. The Teacher’s Role

Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.

Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.

5. Education Philosophy

For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.

In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.

This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.

6. Student Life

To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.

Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.

Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)

What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.

Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.

7. Adult Education

After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”

So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.

8. Moral Relativism in American

Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.

Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.

In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”

Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.

In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”

The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.

The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.

At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.

The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.

But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.

There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.

9. Schools Should Teach Values

People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”

There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.

As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”

This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.

We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.

What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.

These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.

After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.

10. College Pressures

Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.

What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.

“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”

Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.

It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.

The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.

Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.

Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.

Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.

I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.

“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.

“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”

“Then why are you going?”

“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”

Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”

But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.

I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.

Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.

“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”

Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.

Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.

“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”

Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.

To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.

If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.

Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.

“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”

“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”

I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.

Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.

This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.

They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.

If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.

I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.

I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.

11. To Err Is Wrong

In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?

Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.

Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:

Right over 90% of the time = “A”

Right over 80% of the time = “B~”

Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.

From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.

Playing It Safe

With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.

I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.

Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.

Different Logic

From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.

Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.

Errors as Stepping Stones

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.

The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.

Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.

Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.

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我上低年级的时候，就非常羡慕学校的升旗手。每当看见他迈着矫健的步伐，高擎着鲜艳的五星红旗，正步走向旗杆时，我就想，他多光荣啊。什么时候我也成为一名光荣的升旗手，该有多好啊！

一天，学校的升旗手找到我，告诉我被学校选为后备升旗手。我高兴地跳了起来！我的愿望就要实现了！

放学后，在老师的指导下，我们开始了认真的训练。我们先练习站姿。挺胸、抬头、五指并拢，这些动作说起来挺容易，可做起来就不这么简单了。

我以前没有受到过这方面的训练，十多分钟下来，我就有些坚持不住了，感觉后背发酸腿发软，就想歇一歇。这时，老师好像看到了我们的心思，高声地说：“要想当好一名合格的升旗手，就要严格要求自己，严格训练。”我听到老师的话，立刻把胸挺了起来。

经过几天艰苦的训练，我们终于迎来了第一次升旗仪式。那天，我特意穿上了一双新买的白鞋，早早来到学校，按照老师的嘱咐检查了旗杆的挂钩，活动一下身体，等待着升旗仪式的开始。同学 和 老师都集合在操场了，我肩扛着五星红旗，立正站在出旗位置，心脏紧张地怦怦跳着。

出旗的音乐响了起来，我随着口令正步向主席台走去。来到旗杆下，我把五星红旗顺利地挂在绳子上，准备升旗。这时，庄严的国歌响彻了学校的操场，鲜艳的五星红旗在我们的目送下缓缓上升……

我面对着升起的国旗，心里非常激动。我成功了！我成为了一名向往已久的升棋手！我知道，这个工作是光荣的，是一种荣誉，同时也是一种动力，让我更加努力学习，努力工作。我要更加严格地要求自己，对得起我肩上的这面五星红旗！

我目送着鲜艳的五星红旗缓缓上升、上升……

[我成功因为我勤奋作文三篇

雏鹰经历过高空的磨练才得以展翅高飞，梅花经历过寒冬的磨练才得以迎风绽放，阳光经历了风雨的磨练才得以见彩虹。人生只有经历过磨练才能成功。

磨练是成功的基石。古往今来，无数名人成功的背后都经历过数不清的磨练。战国时，屈原被楚王流放边疆，历经磨难，将满腔爱国之心化为写文的动力，为后人留下着作《离骚》。英国伟大的物理学家牛顿曾在读书时代被学校开除，正是这样他经历了比常人更多的磨难。他潜心研究，最终发明了着名的牛顿定律。美国女作家海伦凯勒在年幼时不幸地丧失了视力和听力，然而在这样黑暗有寂静的世界里，她凭借顽强的毅力经历了常人无法想象的磨练，赢得了全世界的尊重。孟子说过∶天降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身。由此可见，想要成功就必须经历磨难。

遇到磨练应积极面对。美国前总统林肯曾经历过八次竞选八次落败，其中还有两次经商失败。当他面对一次又一次重大打击后，他没有放弃自己的梦，最终成为美国历史上最伟大的总统之一。人生充满着许多的磨练，当我们处于逆境时，应微笑去接受，积极去应对。以一种顽强的姿态去享受人生。学会如何面对磨练，那么在经历了人生的狂风暴雨之后就一定能看见绚烂的彩虹。

当然，成功不仅仅需要磨练，还需要乐观的心态。良好的心态可以使我们在进步时不骄傲，在逆境时不放弃。而悲观的心态会使我们消极沉沦最终一事无成。心态可以改变人生。所以，我们必须调整好心态，在逆境中奋勇向前。

如果说磨练是船，那么心态便是桨。只有经历重重磨难，摆正自己的心态，才能载着梦想到达成功彼岸。

没有人能随随便便成功。大多数的成功都需要磨炼，我们在磨练中获得技巧和经验，摸爬滚打中积攒实力，最终到达成功的顶峰。

成功需要磨炼作文

一位高僧开导一位屡屡失意的年轻人，他拿了两只装有茶叶的杯子，用温水冲了一杯。年轻人尝了后觉得一点香味也没有;高僧又用温水冲了另一杯，没冲满。只见茶叶在杯子里上下沉浮着，一股清香飘了了出来……高僧这样加了三次水，最终，年轻人闻到了沁人心脾的芳香。

为何茶叶两次炮制的结果有所不同?其原因很明了。第二次被泡的茶叶因先后三次经历了沸水的磨炼，最终才发除了沁人的香味。茶如此，人亦然。

宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来。

人生在世，只有经历磨炼，才能收获成功。文艺创作便是如此：司马迁虽因被人误解遭受腐刑，但他含垢忍辱，最终写出史家之绝唱——《史记》;范仲淹惨遭三贬，但他达观开朗，呼出了“先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐”的千古名言;着名音乐家贝多芬，不畏失聪，他的百余部作品流芳百世……多少本着作，多少条名言，多少曲名乐，其作者不经历磨炼，怎能永存千古?

人生需要经历磨炼，文艺创作是如此，科学发明也是如此：素有“发明大王”之称的爱迪生经历了上百次的失败，最终发明出沿用至今的电灯泡;因被人认为是低能而被逐出学校的牛顿，潜心钻研，最终发现了万有引力;20岁便患上了肌肉萎缩的霍金，一心学习，最终站到了科学的巅峰……多少件发明，多少条定理，多少种科学现象的解释，不都是历经磨炼才得以发现的吗?

人生需要历经磨炼，文艺创作如此，科学发明如此，军事政治更是如此：越王勾践身为亡国之君，屈膝投降，但二十年的含羞忍耻，他卧薪尝胆，得以东山再起，一雪前耻;韩信年轻时受无赖胯下之辱，但他能屈能伸，后助汉高祖刘邦夺得天下;朱元璋少时贫苦为僧，后一鸣惊人，造就明朝百年基业……多少代帝王，多少位将领，多少场战事，不经历磨练怎能成功?

人生只有经历磨练才能得以成功。吴承恩曾曰：“有风方起浪，无潮水自平。”不经历风吹雨打的水是不会出现浪花的，不经历磨练的人，也是不会有所成就的，这对谁都一样。而走在人生道路上的我们，也会遇到重重困难来磨练我们，我们应该怎么做呢?或许孟子的一句话可以解答我们的疑惑：

“天将降大任于是人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能”。

成长需要磨练!

曾经有位教授，想将蚂蚁堵在蚂蚁窝里，但每次他堵住洞口后，蚂蚁会另找地方开个新洞口。于是他对学生们说：“蚂蚁的环境不比你们广阔，它们的奋斗舞台实在很狭窄，更重要的是，它们深深了解自己的力量，因此，当它们知道自己无法改变洞口被堵死时，它们很快适应了。”

这群蚂蚁掌握了如何奋斗，或者说，它们掌握了奋斗的一部分。因为适应环境本身就是奋斗的组成部分。

贝多芬，德国音乐家。在他刚刚出名时，一场意外发生，导致他的耳朵失去了听力，这对于一个音乐家来说，无疑是灭顶之灾。但贝多芬很快就适应这一事实。无法用耳朵听，他就用牙咬住小木棍，木棍的另一端搭在钢琴上，“听”钢琴的声音。他甚至还可以为乐队指挥。他大部分著名的乐曲都是耳聋后创作的，被后人所传唱。他学会了奋斗，战胜了命运，走向了成功。

俄国的一位作家，从小的志愿是当一名军官。结果考试时由于化学不合格被残酷地淘汰了。他没有像其他人那样心灰意冷，反而很快意识到这是一个无法改变的事实。于是他另辟蹊径，成了一名作家。有一次他和友人闲聊时，说：“如果硅是一种气体，我现在已经是陆军少将了。”他学会了奋斗，战胜了困难，走向了成功。

奋斗的组成部分有很多，适应环境是一种，还有例如坚持不懈，这方面我认为代表人物是爱迪生，试了上万种灯丝，最后成功;例如把握机会，这方面的代表人物是肯德基创始人山德士上校。他经历了无数次失败后，抓住了一次机会，这就足够了。他的肯德基餐厅遍布世界每个角落，他成功了。

让我们学会奋斗，走向成功!

罗曼•罗兰曾说过：最可怕的敌人，就是没有坚强的信念。也就是说做任何事都得坚持到底。

那年，我见同龄人都骑着自行车在玩，十分羡慕，便苦苦哀求爸爸教我骑自行车。爸爸爽快的答应了。

没过多久，爸爸不知从哪儿变出一辆自行车来，然后带着我向一片空旷的石板地走去，说，这就教我去骑。老爸先骑了一圈，叫我仔细看。我看着：爸爸的脚踩在踏板上，一下一下，轮流踩着;他把手放在车把手上，用以控制自行车的方向与平衡。

爸爸停了下来，叫我上去试试。我坐了上去，手扶好，用力踩起来。可惜我力气太小，没握住把手，使得自行车向左边猛的倒了下去。幸亏爸爸手疾眼快，扶住了我。“爸，你怎么不一直扶住我!”我气愤地说。“不经历风雨怎能见彩虹，你得自己学会来。”我羞愧的低下了头。

第二天下午，我和爸爸又来到了石板路上练习骑自行车。我先让爸爸在后面扶着我，中途放手，让我自己骑。第一次，爸爸一放手，我就摔了个仰面朝天。一次又一次，结果还是一样——摔出了一个个大乌青。

第三天，我一样如此。但我坚持每天练习。过了七八天，我终于能够自己骑了。一天我和爸爸一起骑车，我骑出老远，回头向爸爸笑了笑，可自己却撞在了路边的一颗大榕树上……

接下来的日子，我一如既往练习。在我的坚持下，我终于品尝到了坚持的硕果——我学会了骑自行车。

坚持是平凡的，但我却要高声赞美坚持。坚持就是永不放弃，坚持就是成功。

西汉人儿宽在廷尉张汤的门下做事，他为人谦恭，不善言辞，也不好抛头露面，因此在整个廷尉府里，他一直默默无闻，只能做个小小的侍从。后来干脆被派到荒凉寒冷的北地去养牲畜，管理牧场。

一晃几年过去了，儿宽按规定返回廷尉府向主人报告畜牧发展情况，等了两天也不见廷尉召见。此时廷尉张汤正被一件事扰得寝食难安，坐卧不宁，哪儿还有心思关心几匹马的事。原来他在审理案件时遇到了一件疑难的事情，要向皇帝禀报，因为奏章写得不好，上报了两次都被皇帝退了回来，而且看皇上面色凝重，甚是不悦。为此，张汤吓得诚惶诚恐，汗透衣背。回到家他把文书们叫来，大发雷霆，将他们臭骂一顿，一股无名火都撒在了手下身上。不过急归急，奏章还得写，张汤吩咐，再写不好，一定严加惩罚。

文书从书房里出来，正碰上过来打探消息的儿宽，他想及早复命，赶紧起程。他见文书一头汗水，愁眉不展，就问怎么回事，文书一肚子苦水，全都具实以告。儿宽拿过奏章看了一遍，当即指出了问题所在，并详细说明应如何改正。文书一听，像抓住了救命稻草一般，拉着儿宽到了自己办公的地方，沏茶倒水，求儿宽好事做到底，送佛送上天。儿宽推辞不过，沉吟片刻，提笔挥毫，一蹴而就，一会儿工夫奏章就写完了。文书们看了赞不绝口，佩服得五体投地。文书赶忙捧着奏章找张汤交差，张汤看过之后连连点头，问怎么这么快又写得这么好，文书说是在北地养马的儿宽写的，张汤大吃一惊，这才知道儿宽是个奇才，马上派人请儿宽过来相见，免了他养马的差事，提升他为掾史。

奏章呈上去以后，皇帝赞赏有加，亲笔做了细致的批复。过了几天，张汤上朝，皇上问他：“你这次上报的奏章，看来不是一般官吏所能比拟的，究竟是谁写的呢?”张汤如实做了回答。皇帝说：“没想到布衣草芥之中竟有如此有才学的人，得空我得见见他。”

果然，儿宽很快受到了召见，皇帝与他谈经论学，儿宽对答如流，皇帝龙颜大悦，任命他为左内史，后又升任御史大夫。

有人觉得儿宽实在是幸运，因为偶然的一次机会，只写了篇文章，便飞黄腾达，一步登天了。其实他只看到了儿宽挥毫恣意潇洒的瞬间，却不知道这份毫不费力的轻松背后，是他二十多年勤学苦读的结果。儿宽幼年家贫，小小年纪就不得不替人做短工维持生活，但他酷爱学习，到田里做活儿时总是把经书带在身边，“休息辄读诵”，利用劳动的间隙进行学习，日积月累，读了大量的书。后来进了廷尉府做事，他从不和那些有些文史知识的小官吏一样，吆五喝六，卖弄学问，而是洁身自好，埋头读书。即使被分配去艰苦的北地养马，他也毫无怨言，几年的时间，除了干好本职工作，他在读书上一直孜孜不倦。“宝剑锋从磨砺出”，一个挥笔书就的看似简单的奏折，就如同武林高手的动作，其中浸润的却是几十年的功力。

生活中常听人抱怨说世上千里马常有而伯乐不常有，很是为自己不能如金子般闪烁出熠熠光芒而愤愤不平。古人喜欢将人才比喻成锥子，认为真正有才能的人就好像锥子装在口袋里，锥尖很快就会穿破口袋钻出来，为世人所发现、所认识。这个比喻很形象也很贴切，通常我们总是看到一个人获得成功时的荣耀，却不知道他曾为这份成功而经历了怎样的磨砺。

一分耕耘，一分收获。如果你还没有成功，不要抱怨包裹我们的口袋太厚，那只是因为我们的锥尖还不够锋利。

执着的精神是成功的润滑剂,有了执着,成功往往就会容易很多,一个人想要成就大事业也必须有执着的精神

对于执着,我的理想是坚持不懈,只有一生不懈做其事,才能最终成功.

小时候,爸爸总是叫我做奥数题,但我却总也做不出来,为什么呢?缺少执着呗!一会儿做做题,一会儿玩玩小熊,再回来做题,肯定是很难做出来的,因为原来的解体思路已经被全部打乱,总也理不出头绪,眼睛看着题,心中却想着看电视,怎么行?做不出题目也是必然了.

但是执着不等于一味埋头苦干,也要学会变通,例如愚公移山,愚公的精神是好的,可是这种执着却不被现代所提倡：明知道搬不走山却还要搬,这也太傻了,如果搬个家不是更好吗?如果强行搬山,说不定还会水土流失呢!这样可就是太得不偿失了.也许写出这个故事的作者本意是希望大家学习愚公执着的精神,可我认为执着应该用对地方,应会灵活变通,这样的效果才是最好的.

执着的精神自古就帮助着人们,人们执着的探索自然,研究科学,发现了π等于3.1415926,发现人体穴位的奥妙,还知道了几种简单的方程运算,人们就是在这些发现种渐渐成长起来的,渐渐地有了今天的发现和成绩,执着使人们不停探索,不停提高着生活水平和质量.

只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针,执着的故事激励人们要坚持不懈,执着成就了李白,王安石等大文豪.一位著名的科学家在获奖时,记者问他最要感谢的老师是,他说是执着.霍金凭借执着写成《时间简史》,张海迪凭借执着学成多门外语,执着是全世界人民共同的导师,缺少执着是人类共同的敌人.

执着是成功的前提,有了执着就有了一道护身符,它能保护你,能让你冲破困难的枷锁.

执着的故事不老,执着的花儿不败!