成功需要勤奋英语(汇编20篇)

你在一生中，可以有所作为的时候只有一次。那就是现在，然而，许多人却在悔恨过去和担忧未来之中浪费了大好时光。

一个人要知道自己的位置，就像一个人知道自己的脸面一样，这是最为清醒的自觉。洗尽铅华总是比随意的涂脂抹粉来得美。所以做能做的事，把它做的最好，这才是做人的重要。

你最痛苦的时候，窗外有小鸟在快乐地歌唱；

你最快乐的时候，有人正受着病魔的折磨，和死亡搏斗，挣扎。

世界总是一样的，只是我们的心情和遭遇不一样而已。

每一个人都期待着一份至死不渝的感情。但要明白，感情如房子，建造时偷工减料就会成危楼；年久失修莫名其妙就会长出壁癌，有时因原来施工不良就会漏水；有时一场一大台风会吹破玻璃；有时也可能遇上地震来摧残。如果没有放火逃生设备也不小以应变。。。。。。还有所有的房子都一样，即使是监狱，也有一扇可以进出的门。

人生里面总是有所缺少，你得到什么，也就失去什么，重要的是你应该知道自己到底要什么。追两只兔子的人，难免会一无所获。

人生没有十全十美，如果你发现错了。重新再来，别人不原谅你，你可以自己原谅自己。千万不要用一个错误去掩盖另一个错误。

人活着的意义应当是在过程，而不是结论。所以一个人不应该以自己的经验和观点去影响另一个人，何况他不是你，你也不是他。每一个人成长的过程都不一样，人生的酸甜苦辣应当自己尝一尝，尝试才是人生。

财富是一种寄存，钱再多，你也不能带到棺材里去；

情爱是一种寄存，人之亡之，情之焉附？

权位是一种寄存，无论你怎样叱咤风云，却不能逃出最终的交替；

即使是生命本身，也不过是寄存于这个星球上的匆匆过客。而这个星球，本身充其量也就是造物主为人类建造的一间小驿站。

我们的人生何曾不充满梦想，那朵朱槿花儿，就在你我的心灵深处摇摆，那无限的风光我们几欲搅尽。然而我们总是习惯于守侯第一个春天，而对第一个季节的空获，我们往往轻率地将第二个春天弃之门外，将梦交归于梦。梦想之花垂青的只是那些有耐心，持着追求的人。今天，倘若给你一朵梦中的朱槿花，你应该有勇 气向梦想买断第二个春天。

其实，感动发生在刹那之间。感动也可能永恒，一点宽容可能会让别人感激一生；一点爱心可能会让别人温暖一生；一句祝福与鼓励的话语可能会让幸福一生。

一个人只有时刻保持幸福快乐的感觉，才会使自己更加热爱生命，热爱生活。只有快乐，愉快的心情，才是创造力和人生动力的源泉；只有不断自己创造快乐，与自己快乐相处的人，才能远离痛苦与烦恼，才能拥有快乐的人生。

如果你想成功，那么你要记住：遗产为零，诚实第一，学习第二，礼貌第三，刻苦第四，精明第五。

完整的人生应有“三感”，使命感，失落感，危机感。

每个企业家都有自己的特色和风格，但他们还有共同的特征，那就是：有正确的判断力，有决心，敢于创新，勤奋工作。

做人的唯一指南就是自己的良心，回首往事。惟一使人感到蔚籍的是自己行为的正直与诚实，生活中要是没有这种慰籍是非常不明智的。因为人常为自己的破灭与筹算的错误而自嘲；然而这种慰籍，无论命运对你任何，你总能以坚定的步伐前进，而且充满荣誉感。

我们每一个人都应该有更多的同情，更多的爱，比维持我们生存需要的多得多，我们应该把它分散给别人，追求是生命之光。

[成功需要用心感悟作文

汗水浇灌，硕果累累

正如一只蜻蜓拼尽全力向高空冲去，被一阵大风高高托起，其它蜻蜓只羡慕和感慨大风功劳而忽视蜻蜓的努力一样，雏鹰矫健地翱翔于天际，却不知它曾多次起飞失败过?蜗牛爬向金字塔的顶峰，却不知它曾坠落过多少次?耕牛犁出一亩整齐的田畦，却不知它曾流过多少汗水?曾多次在生活中成功过，却不曾想过这背后流过的泪水与血汗?任何光鲜人物的背后都是一番寒彻骨，都是彻底的奋斗，都用艰辛的努力。由此观之，只有付出艰辛的汗水，才能浇灌出成功的嫩芽。

付出汗水，播撒成功种子。农民知道要收获，必须先播种;人们知道，要成功必须先播下希望的种子。前世界乒乓球冠军邓亚萍，她是中国乒乓体坛的骄傲，她是世界乒坛的骄傲。卸任之后，她毅力坚定的考进了清华，她再次得到了众人的称赞。她将自己的英语从零开始考到了八级。是啊，我们不仅仅看到邓亚萍的称赞与荣誉，更应该看到她的努力和汗水，她付出了汗水，才能收获的种子萌发;新东方“教父”俞敏洪[微博]也曾三次参加高考[微博]，也是由于他当初的努力坚定了今日的辉煌。由此可见，付出汗水，才能播撒成功种子。

付出汗水，浇灌成功嫩芽。任何成功的取得并不是表面的那么容易，他们付出的艰辛是难以比拟的。当记者问他球技为何如此精湛时，他只简单的回答道：“你知道凌晨四点的太阳吗?他就是科比，就是我们崇拜的飞人偶像，在他光鲜的背后曾经挥洒着无尽的汗水，他的成功也绝非偶然。与他具有同样奋斗精神的世界游泳冠军孙杨、叶诗文等人。成功后，在聚光灯的照耀下，他们光鲜美丽，谁知她们的艰辛，洒下的热泪，用汗水浇灌成功的种子悄悄发芽?所以说，没有人可以随随便便成功，多看看成功者光环的背后的努力吧!

付出汗水，收获成功果实。时下的校园，有这样一群人穿梭于期间，他们匆忙的背影，矫健和步伐，他们就是高三的学子，大考在即，他们在为自己的梦想挥洒汗水，书写着豪情。教室，宿舍两点一线，构成了校园的一道美丽的风景。成功总是要有收获的，今日的付出，必将会得到明日的回报，辛勤努力，必将会化成累累的硕果，山花的烂漫，辉煌的绽放，我们会在丛中笑!由此看来，奋斗是成功之母，书山有路勤为径。只有付出，才能收获希望。

尽管雏鹰失败过，但它终于飞上天空;尽管蜗牛跌落过，但它最终爬到顶峰;尽管耕牛笨拙，但它耕种了希望田野;尽管我们没有聪颖大脑，但我们肯付出;尽管我们没有超人能力，但我们肯奋斗;尽管我们没有优越条件，但我们肯超越;尽管生活很坎坷，但我们必将成功了。因为，我们付出的汗水和智慧，浇灌出的成功嫩芽一定会鲜花璀璨，果实累累。

【修改与点评】

1.题目“汗水浇灌，硕果累累”，交代了二者的因果关系，准确地揭示了材料和文章的中心，拟题精准、对称整齐，用词简练。并且包含了前后的因果关系，强化和突出了中心。

2.文章开头通过材料和一个排比句，进行类比，引出材料的中心：“由此观之，只有付出艰辛的汗水，才能浇灌出成功的嫩芽。”

3.正文论述过程，极具特色。中间运用三个分论点围绕中心论点展开论述，统帅各段。采用层层深入的递进式结构，列举了中外明星的事例，论述了成功需要付出汗水的论点。每个段落在论述过成功中，十分规范，模式值得借鉴：提出分论点—列举事例—重在论证—出结论。

4.结尾段首尾照应。结尾具有特色，值得借鉴：用一组排比句，总结上文论述的事例，再联系实际，再次深化升华中心，强调付出汗水的重要性，展望未来，给人以激励鼓舞和鞭策。

鲁滨逊这个人物，相信大家都不陌生。没错，他就是英国伦敦的著名作家笛福在作品《鲁滨逊飘流记》中塑造的一个有血有肉的人物。

作品讲述了鲁滨逊在一次海难中幸运逃生，但却被海浪打到一个荒岛。在荒岛上他没有怨天尤人，而是利用手中仅有的一些资源开始生活。渐渐地，荒岛在他的手中变成了一个井然有序，欣欣向荣的家园，他也渐渐适应了这儿的生活。终于有一次，他等到了离开孤岛的机会。担他出去之后，又三番两次抛开优裕的生活，出海闯荡，终于得到了可观的财富。他的荒岛经历成为了西方殖民者开拓史诗的一个时代缩影。

正如书中的主人公一样，作者笛福也是一个不断奋斗的人。他出生在一个信仰新教的家庭。当时的他违背了父母让他做一名教士的初衷，考虑再三后决定下海经商。后来，他投身工商业，但事业大起大落，时而发财，时而破产，还被捕入狱。但他毫不气馁，一鼓作气推出了好几部小说。

生活中的我们又何尝不应该这样。这回考试没考好，多自我反省反省，回家多看看书，为下次考试作奋斗;这回考好了，也别自满，多想想自己还有什么地方需要改进，为下一次考试作奋斗。

同学们，永远记住，成功的背后，是比别人花费的更多的时间，更多的精力，是比别人付出的更多的泪水，更多的汗水!正所谓，一分耕耘，一分收获，我们只有不断奋斗，成功的光环才可能在我们头顶闪耀，不要奢望不劳而获!

成功是百分之一的聪明加百分之九十九的勤奋——爱迪生

对于我们来说，勤奋就是成功之母!——茅以升

勤奋是我们必不可少的，有了勤奋，才能让我们迈进成功的殿堂，许多伟人不单靠聪明，而是勤奋，才能在自己追求的领域有所成功!

现代有许多学生，只想有好的成绩，又不肯勤奋用功，单靠自己的一点小聪明就认为可以学好习，那是不可能的，许多事实证明，只有勤奋才能成功。不肯用功、勤奋，就不会有出息。

伟大的发明家爱迪生，小时候只上过三个月的小学，一直被人认为低能儿的他在母亲的教育和耐心教导下努力学习，勤奋刻苦，在不懂的地方用心学习，之后成为了发明大王，在留声机、电灯、电话、电报、电影等方面的发明和贡献，还在在矿业、建筑业、化工等领域也有不少著名的创造和真知灼见，这不是勤奋得来的吗?

我们发现万有引力的伟大科学家牛顿，小时候不用功读书，课堂上违反纪律，但到他青年时那他发现要想有所成就，必须勤奋学习，从此他走向了物理的知识殿堂，在物理海洋里畅游，终于在物理界有所成就!

勤奋才能成功，这是铁定的事实，但有些人就是不理会这个道理!

王安石写的《伤仲永》一文，里面的仲永是一个很聪明的小孩，从小作诗写文，一点不比当时的先生差，许多人认为他是天才，过节时都找他写对联，之后他自认为自己很聪明，不去继续学习，过了七年，当他十一岁时，他的能力大不如以前了

这就是勤奋的威力，即使你的智商再高，没有勤奋，没有努力，还是不会成功的有个名人说过，勤奋，是步入成功之门的通行证!上面的这么多例子已经可以证实，要想成功，必需付出，要想有所付出，必须勤奋!

勤奋，才能成功!

战国时候，有一个非常的思想家，他叫荀子。他写了一篇非常有名的书叫做《劝学》。让我印象深刻的是里面的一句话：“骐骥一跃，不能十步;驽马十驾，功在不舍;锲而舍之，朽木不折;锲而不舍，金石可镂。”前段时间，发生的一件事，让我真正理解了“坚持”的力量和对于学习的意义。 During the Warring States Period, there was a very thinker, his name was Xunzi.He wrote a very famous book called "Persuasion".What impressed me was a sentence inside: "Leap a jump, not ten steps; the horse is ten driving, and the merit is reluctant; persistence, the rotten wood will not be discounted;One thing made me truly understand the power of "persistence" and the significance of learning.

我从幼儿园大班开始学画已经四年了。其实我还是挺爱画画的。一方面来自于自己的兴趣，另一方面也来自于爸爸妈妈的支持和鼓励。

我的梦想就是能够成为一名画家。这几年下来，我在绘画的道路上，学到了很多的知识，也收获了很多的肯定和荣誉。但是，就在昨天，因为没有及时上交绘画习作，我被老师批评了。后来，我敷衍地画了一幅画以应付任务，结果被老师打回要求重新完成。我很苦恼，也很沮丧。我突然觉得我不爱画画了，觉得画画是一件浪费时间又浪费体力和脑力的事情。

就在我准备打退堂鼓的时候，爸爸跟我说起了荀子劝学的故事。爸爸说：骏马一跃，并不能跳到十步之远。劣马拉车走十天，也能走得很远，它的成功在于不停的向前;拿刀去刻东西，如果中途停止了，那么，就连腐朽的木头也不能刻断。如果坚持不停的刻下去，坚硬的金石也能雕刻成功。

劣马拉车走十天，也能走得很远，它的成功在于不停的向前;拿刀去刻东西，如果中途停止了，那么，就连腐朽的木头也不能刻断。但如果坚持不停的刻下去，坚硬的金石也能雕刻成功。

爸爸说的话，让我恍然大悟，也让我羞愧难当。无论是学习还是绘画，只有持之以恒的努力和不断的坚持，才能获得成功。爸爸说：“一个人有梦想是好的，但要实现梦想，那必须要懂得坚持。坚持是一种信念，更是一种力量。”听完爸爸说的话，我自觉的拿起画笔，认真的在画纸上画了起来……

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?

无论在事业上、生活上每个人都想获得成功，但往往不能如愿以偿究其原因大多是由于没有勤奋地工作、劳动造成的。

事业的成功来自勤奋。高尔基曾说过天才出于勤奋。此话当真不假，马克思的《资本论》、司马迁的《史记》、歌德的《浮士德》等传世佳作，都是作者勤奋一「作的体现。马克思辛勤40年，踏凹图书馆的地板;司马迁20出头便开始周游四方，足迹遍及黄河长江流域;歌德竟苦心搜集了58年的材料。这些作家及他们的作品都已家喻户晓这就是上帝对他们的辛勤工作的最好的回报勤奋，就能获得工作的成功，我们何乐而不为呢？

生活的硕果来自勤奋。残疾人的生活是艰苦的但他们勤奋锻炼，没有手的就试着用脚用嘴写字干活，弥补了生理上的缺陷，和平常人过着同样幸福的生活。他们过得很充实很有意义，不是靠自己的勤奋创造的吗？

用着的钥匙永远光亮。这是富兰克林的一句名言，意思是要人们永不停息地工作;反之，就正如克雷洛夫说的那样：有了天才不用，天才一定会衰退的而且会在慢性的腐朽中归于消灭。宋朝有个神童方仲永，他5岁便能写一手好诗，由于名气渐大请他作诗的人也就越多，其父见有利可图，于是每天带着他四处作诗收钱，不让他继续勤奋学习以致后来方仲永才学枯竭，渐渐沉没于众人之电一个文学的新星，就由于不勤奋而夭折又由此看来，无论怎样的天才，只要不勤奋学习，势必会变成无知的人。这同无论多先进的机器，只要不用就会生锈变朽，是一样的道理。

至此，我们可以得到这样一个结论：无论什么事情都离不开勤奋，只有勤奋才能获得成功。

Everybody gets the itch to succeed, but only part of them can make their dreams come true. You maybe wonder: what is the key to success? The answer is To keep the desire to learn .

Keep the desire to learn, and you will never be satisfied with what you have known. Always keep a curious mind to all the mysterious parts of the world. Keep the desire to learn, and whatever difficulties you face, the strong belief will support you in solving the problems. Keep the desire to learn, just as Ms Curie puts it: Nothing in the world is to be feared, it is only to be understand. So everything is possible if we try our best and never give up.

One who does not have the desire to learn will never reach their goals. They are always shortsighted and are easily be satisfied with the very little thing they have known. In fact, knowledge, just like the ocean, never has a rim. Whenever and wherever you are, you should remember: what you are learning is only the surface.

In a word, always keep the desire to learn, and the door of success will open to you one day.

我们的一生，可以说是一直在成功，这其中包含的是多方面的原因，如在生活中随着年龄的不断增长，会积累越来越多的经验，而这些经验，其实都源于尝试。

尝试，从狭义上说是去做一件从未做过的事，而从广义上来说则是换一种从未有过的思维方式去思考一件事。就如我曾经看过的一个故事：

有一位开锁大师，声称可以在40分钟内打开一把无论多么复杂的锁。当地居民开始都不信，制作了一把把极其复杂的锁让他开，他都能在20多分钟就能打开。居民们都信服了。但有一次，几个老人制作了一个带一扇天窗和一扇门的大铁笼了，又在上面挂了一把外形极其复杂的锁，让他从天窗进去，再从那扇门里开锁出来。他进了笼子，拿出工具，开始在众目注视下开锁。他干得很卖力，10分钟过去了，30分钟过去了，1小时过去了……他仍然没有打开那把锁。最终2小时过去了，他太累了，坐下来靠在门上，没想到门却自己开了……

原来，那把复杂的锁只是一个样子，根本没有锁上，门只是虚掩着的。如果他当时能跳出思维的圈子，勇于尝试一次，他就不会被自己心里的“锁”锁住了。

我们在生活中也是一样，尝试做一次饭，洗一次衣服，拖一次地……只有经过这些尝试，我们才能成功，因为成功需要尝试!

“天才是百分之一的灵感加百分之九十九的勤奋。”这是爱迪生说过的一句话。世界上没有天才，都是靠自己的勤奋和一丝灵感，才成功的。

爱迪生是伟大的科学家，这应该是无人不知的吧。今天，我怀着无比喜悦的心情读了读了《爱迪生的人生》这篇文章，它给我留下了深刻的印象，文章主要讲：爱迪生从20岁就开始研究电灯。为了研制更多、更好的灯泡，经常是连续工作24小时，在他八十高龄的时候，爱迪生仍然白天坚持在实验室工作;晚上，还读三至五个小时的书。他活到84岁的时候，已经发明了1100项之多了。

1100项之多了，这是一个多么惊人的数字啊!里面包含这爱迪生先生辛勤的汗水和智慧的结晶。爱迪生在八十高龄的时候，还是那么勤劳，是他的勤劳改变了爱迪生的一生，使他走进了成功之门!这证实了“只有勤奋才能造就天才”。

季羡林老先生曾说过：“勤奋出灵感。”你只有努力不懈和勤奋人生，成功就在你的身边。我多么渴望想爱迪生那样，到勤奋的海洋中遨游，到科学的世界中探索，去揭开自然中一个又一个的奥秘，为人了造福啊!然而跟爱迪生相比，我感到羞惭万分。

“勤能补拙是良训，一分辛苦一份才”。爱迪生用自己一生的勤奋为人类作出了巨大的贡献。从爱迪生的身上，我也再次证实了“只有勤奋才能造就天才”。社会上并没有天才、作家……都是通过自己的勤奋和一丝灵感。空想着什么“家”、什么“大师”都没有用，一定要付以实际行动。只有努力不懈，成功就离你不远!让勤奋伴随你的一生!

我虽然不是天才，但我必须要勤奋，只有脚踏实地、扎扎实实地做，才能迈向成功!

驾一叶扁舟，渡一艘帆船，我们终驶达理想的彼岸。

成功需要积累，爱迪生曾经说过：“天才是百分之一的灵感加百分之九十九的汗水”因此，我们要确立自己的目标，一点一点的积累，才能走向成功。

生活中，我们都有过类似的境遇，当确立好一个目标后，我们起步走，目标是辉煌夺目的，而通往目标的路却是那么的漫长，崎岖，我们都说：“为什么成功总是那么难?”

是啊，世上没有不费吹灰之力就可得到的成功，成功是需要我们去刻苦，努力，一点一滴的积累，不忍受一定的苦楚，任何人也不能摘取成功的花朵。

中国古代也有过一些这样的人物，唐代诗人李白，杜甫，清代的蒲松龄，还有近代的一些大师，鲁迅，郭沫若，老舍，这些人，他们并不是天生就懂，而是每天勤奋好学，一点一滴的积累，逐渐成为今天的辉煌，他们的背后也曾经有太多太多的另人辛酸的往事，古人能做到，为何我们却不能做到呢?

古今中外也有一些人，如契柯夫，罗曼.罗兰，贝多芬，他们之所以能成为文学家，音乐家，是因为他们有一种坚强的毅力在推动着他们，这种毅力不是与生俱来的，也是经过了重重磨难最终形成的。

倘若有这样一个人，整天无所事事，好吃懒做，这样的人，可想而知，他的遭遇是不言而喻的。

成功需要积累，孙权劝学中曾说过这样一句话：“积土成山，风雨兴焉，积水成渊，绞龙生焉，积善成德，而神明自得，圣心备焉，”由此可见，积累是尤为重要的。

如果没有那一步步的积累，怎会有千里之行，如果没有那一条条小溪的积累，怎会有波澜壮阔?如果没有那一本本书里的积累又怎么会有渊博的学识，所以，成功需要积累。

爱迪生的坚持，给世界带来光明。

哥白尼的坚持，让“日心说”得以发扬。

老鹰的坚持，使自己得到美味。

……

——一切成功源于坚持——这是名人留给我们的经验，也是我们从动物身上学到的处世哲学。

还清楚的记得2008年5月12日，中国大地上那场地震。它夺去了无数人的生命。可是，在整理死亡名单的同时，我们别忘了那一个个生命的奇迹。他们在废墟下、在荒山野林里，在那种没有食物、没有水，甚至生命时刻受到威胁的环境下，可以坚持数天、数十天，正因为他们的这种精神让生命成为奇迹。

着名哲学家柏拉图上学的时候，一天，老师苏格拉底布置了一道特别的作业：每天做甩手运动三十下。当时，全班同学都说太简单了。一个月后，老师问还有多少同学在做，只有不到一半的学生在举手。两个月后，老师又问，已经只有几个学生举手了。一年后，老师再问，还有一个学生举手，他就是柏拉图。

一个别人不以为然的甩手运动让柏拉图坚持了下来。可是，有谁知道正是这种简单的坚持，却成就了一个哲学家。

他是一个名不见经传的小人物，写了一个剧本。当时好莱坞有五百家电影公司，他拿着剧本去一家家要求拍，可五百家电影公司无一例外地拒绝了他。面对百分之百的拒绝，他没有灰心，又进行了第二轮、第三轮。结果都和第一轮一样。他还不死心，又进行了第四轮，到第三百五十五家电影公司时，那家公司终于同意了。

他就是好莱坞着名影星席维斯·史泰龙，那部影片就是《洛奇》。

他一共遭遇了一千八百五十五次拒绝，面对这一千八百五十五次的拒绝，他坚持了下来。他的坚持，让影坛出现了一部《洛奇》，也出现了一个席维斯·史泰龙。

成功在于坚持，无数功成名就的人证明了这条永不改变的真理。因此，我们要成功，就要坚持。只有朝着坚持这条路走下去，成功才会离我们越来越近。

没有一定的知识何谈成功呢？有位捕鸟师把鸟都网住了，但是它们却并力飞走了，还捕鸟师并不是放弃，而是追逐鸟群，因为他知道，到了黄昏，鸟儿乱了，自然会掉下来的。正是因为他拥有鸟儿惯性的知识，最后大获鸟群。

知识是黑暗道路上的一盏明灯，照亮你前进的方向；知识是沙漠中的一片绿洲，给你茫然路上的希望；知识是路边的鲜花，伴你一路芬芳迷人。我们要具备一定的知识才能够成功，没有成功是草草而成的。

三国演义中的孔明先生——诸葛亮。他的名声至今依旧响边世界，正是因为它的才能、知识，铸就了他的成功。诸葛亮以他的上知天文下知地理的知识才能，筹备军备，出谋划策，最终以他的少数军队大败曹操的数万军队，把敌人打个落花流水，形成了以少胜多的历史。倘若你是一个人无知识、无能力的人，想必你不会想出如此高超的战略要求，也无法战胜敌人巨大的兵队，可恰好孔明具备着广博的知识，然而成功了。所以说，成功需要知识。

如今响震乐坛周杰伦，想必是大多学生所崇拜的偶然。当然，你的崇拜是有你的理由的，比如他颠覆乐坛的辉煌、歌词的丰富，以及音乐旋律的动人。它之所以能够成功的立足乐坛，那是他具有音乐知识。还没有出道之前的他，创作的作品不为他人欣赏，然而吴宗宪给它一个机会，那就是在十天内写出50首歌。其中选出十首来给他出专辑。周杰伦具备丰富的音乐知识，发挥自己的才能，然而在10天完成了任务，于是就出现了《Jay周》。从此出现在乐坛，再一步一步的前进，他的成功在于他具备知识。

巴西的第一位女总统，特别强调的是她是“第一位女总统”，可想而知她是具备才能才能够成就如此大的成功。她出身于贫穷的家庭，但她从未放弃学习，她参加各种政治活动，了解政治生活中的各类时项，掌握管理事务的方法。当她知识积聚到一定程度时，必定暴发力量，成就她的事业，她就是罗塞夫。无论是谁成功都需要知识。

知识是通往成功的桥梁，我们想要成功就必须积累知识，正如捕鸟师具备了捕鸟的知识，最终轻易的捕捉鸟群，如果他不具备知识，他会失去这一成果。然而，在我们人生路途中，要不断地学习知识，积累知识，不断地完善自己，朝着成功的方向前进。

真正的成功在于自力努力完成某事后并做的很好，有成就感。这种成功需要勤奋。在许多竞争对手中鹤立鸡群，获得成就，也是成功。这种成功也需要勤奋。所以成功源于勤奋。

爱迪生曾说1%的灵感加99%的汗水=100%的成功。可见勤奋是成功的必要因素。孔子也说：“发奋忘食，乐以忘忧”。更表现出胜任教学生，教育勤奋的原因了。颜真卿也在《劝学》中写到：三更灯火五更鸡，正式男儿读书时。黑发不知勤学早，白首方悔读书迟。这不也说明了勤奋的重要吗？书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。这句流传至今的谚语。更能说明勤奋对于成功的重要性。所以成功源于勤奋。

匡衡为读书，又因为家里没钱买灯油。就在与富人家之间的墙上，凿了一个洞。透过洞里的光看书。苏秦为读书更是头悬梁。董仲舒在家刻苦读书，后花园三年年仅去过一次。这样的勤奋不言而喻，后来他们都成功了。难道不能证明成功源于勤奋。

只有勤奋努力，才能赢得成功与认可。只要你有对功成名就的向往，持之以恒的努力下去，追求下去并永不罢休，就一定能成功。正如XX所言：如果放弃就等于失败，不放弃就有可能成功。只要我们拥有一颗向往成功的心与能持之以恒和拥有毅力的信力，就一定能成功，有梦勇敢去追。因为只有勤奋，才能成功。成功源于勤奋。

自力更生的意志力。艰苦奋斗的创造力，是创业的精神支柱，使我们叩开知识与成功的大门。

成功是非凡的傻劲，奋斗与恒心，与聪明无关。天才不代表成功，99%的汗水和1%的灵感才能铸就成功。

只有勤奋，才能成功。因为成功源于勤奋。您想走成功的捷径吗？请试试勤奋。

我班有名学生，无论你怎么努力，他就是不开窍。刚学的词语，他一个字都写不出来。我从教这么多年，还第一次遇到这样的学生。对待这样的学生究竟该怎么办？

勤能补拙是良训，一分辛苦一分才。古今中外的许多故事都验证了这个道理。

司马光警枕励志。司马光是个贪玩贪睡的孩子，为此他没少受先生的责罚和同伴的嘲笑，在先生的谆谆教诲下，他决心改掉贪睡的坏毛病，为了早早起床，他睡觉前喝了满满一肚子水，结果早上没有被憋醒，却尿了床，于是聪明的司马光用园木头作了一个警枕，早上一翻身，头滑落在床板上，自然惊醒，从此他天天早早地起床读书，坚持不懈，终于成为了一个学识渊博的，写出了《资治通鉴》的大文豪。

范仲淹断齑划粥。范仲淹从小家境贫寒，为了读书，他省吃俭用。终于，他的勤奋好学感动了寺院长老，长老送他到南都学舍学习。范仲淹依然坚持简朴的生活习惯，不接受富家子弟的馈赠，以磨砺自己的意志。经过刻苦攻读，他终于成为了伟大的文学家。

贝多芬他并不是一帆风顺的幸运儿，早在年轻的时候，他的双目就失明了。可以想象，眼睛是心灵的窗口，没有心灵窗口的他又怎么从事音乐事业呢？但他并没有放弃，相反，他发奋努力。终于，一份汗水，一份收获，贝多芬走上了铺满鲜花的舞台，成为了举世闻名的大音乐家，到达了胜利的彼岸。

我国著名的生物学家童第周，天资并不聪明，17岁才进中学。他没有气馁，每天天刚亮就在校园里读书，晚上睡觉前，他总是习惯地回顾一下当天的学习内容。他还十分注意改进学习方法。经过他的不懈努力，学习成绩在班上名列前茅。后来，他完成的高难度青蛙卵剥离手术在欧洲生物学界产生了很大影响。

众所周知的著名数学家华罗庚坚信“一份艰辛一份成果”，他没有被穷乡僻壤所困缚，在数学领域中辛勤耕耘，终于攻克了数学这坚实的堡垒，取得了胜利的皇冠。

同学们，这些故事让我们明白了非凡的成就背后一定离不开个人的勤奋和努力。无论天资聪颖还是资质平凡，我们都有机会取得成功，成就非凡的事业。

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关于勤奋的名言：

1.勤奋是时间的主人，怠惰是时间的奴隶。——格言

2.在天才和勤奋两者之间，我毫不迟疑地选择勤奋，她是几乎世界上一切成就的催产婆。——爱因斯坦

3.天才在于积累，聪明在于勤奋。——华罗庚

4.时间是个常数，但也是个变数。勤奋的人无穷多，懒惰的人无穷少。——字严

5.在日常生活中，靠天才能做到的事，靠勤奋同样能做到；靠天才做不到的，靠勤奋也能做到。——佚名

6.业精于勤荒于嬉，行成于思毁于随。——韩愈

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论成功

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.

Success is not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses1 all of the facets2 of your relationships： as parent， as wife or husband， as citizen， neighbor， worker and all of the others。

Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts： body， mind， heart， and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.

Success is discovering your best talents， skills and abilities and applying3 them where they will make the most effective contribution to your fellow men.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitudes. It calls for love， joy， optimism， confidence， serenity4， poise， faith， courage， cheerfulness， imagination， initiative， tolerance， honesty， humility， patience， and enthusiasm.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral5 of progress. It is a perpetual6 growth.

Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere7 with your long-range goal.

Success is accepting the challenge of the difficult. In the inspiring words of Phillips Brooks8："Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle， but you shall be the miracle."

翻开历史的画卷，我们可以清楚地看到，古今中外的伟人名士，专家学者，他们成功的奥秘之一都是勤奋。

不是吗？我国著名的生物学家童第周，上中学时，他考试不及格，老师要让他留级，同学们笑他，他不悲观失望，从此发奋学习，最后取得了优异的成绩。出国留学时他又刻苦钻研，为中国争了光，成了世界著名的生物学家。还有连学都没上过的张海迪姐姐，身残志坚，勤奋学习，克服了健康人也难以克服的苦难，硬是攻克了几门外语。

古往今来，许多誉满全球的伟人，他们的每一项发明创造，每一次成功，都是要流下滴滴汗水，留下步步脚印的。他们的成功都是靠着自己的勤奋钻研而得来的。

成功的关键在于勤奋，勤能补拙是良训，一分辛劳一分才，只有勤奋才能取得成功。传说古希腊有一个叫德摩斯梯尼的演说家，因小时口吃，登台演讲时，声音含混，发音不准，常常被雄辩的对手压倒。可是他气不馁，心不灰，为克服这个弱点，战胜雄辩的对手，便每天口含石子面对大海朗诵，不管春夏秋冬，坚持五十年如一日，连爬山，跑步也边走边做演说，终于成为全希腊一个最有名气的演说家。这样的事例不正说明勤奋可以克服一切困难，战胜一切，从而取得成功吗？不是正告诉人们，一切事物都要勤奋吗？

鲁迅之所以渊博，正是因为他把别人喝咖啡的时间，都用来汲取精神养料。李时珍的《本草纲目》的写成，正是由于他27个年头的跋山涉水，“访采四方”，“搜罗百代”的成果。

高尔基说过：“天才出于勤奋”。卡莱尔也说过：“天才就是无止境地刻苦勤奋的努力”。这些名人的经验之谈告诉我们，只有勤奋，才能成功。

物理学家牛顿；化学界的大师诺贝尔、门捷列夫；放射性元素的发现者居里夫人……他们之所以有这样伟大的成就，有一个重要的因素，就是由于他们都是勤奋学习，不耻下问，大胆实践，用于向失败挑战的人。而最后呢，他们胜利了，成功了。无数事实证明了这样一个真理：成功来自勤奋。只会不是自然的恩赐，而是勤奋的结果。

让我们大家以此共勉，勇勤奋去攀登智慧的巅峰，用知识的钥匙打开成功的大门！让我们永远记住：成功来自勤奋。

考试过后，我背着书包走上了回家的路。书包很轻，而我的心却很沉重。脑海中不停地出现试卷上那鲜红分数和那不忍直视的叉叉，就像绞肉机一样，一遍又一遍翻绞着我的灵魂。想到回家后要接受的判决，以及明天的运动会。我已没了斗志，可以说是心如死灰。

回家的路不知何时竟变的这么短了。回到家后，我挂着一张苦瓜脸，没有跟爸妈说一句话，便径直的走进了房间。“哐当·‘我关上了房。将书包随手一丢，自己坐在了书桌前的椅子上。突然，所有的情绪一下子全都涌现了出来。我用手抹去脸上的泪水，可眼泪似乎更多了，不停地向外淌着。

"咚咚" 门开了。我迅速拭去脸上的泪水。回过头去，看见妈妈正向我走来。她坐在我的身旁，拉起我的手。她手上的茧使我很不舒服，但手心的温度却使我温暖。她语重心长地对我说：“姑娘，怎么了，又没考好？‘’我低头不语。”没事儿，虽然你以前没考好的时候妈妈总是批评你，但你要知道妈妈也是因为对你的期望太大呀。妈妈知道你很努力，却始终得不到你因有的回报。你很气愤。但妈妈相信你下次一定能考好，一定能成功的。“妈妈的话对此刻的我来说，就像是一针·定心剂，使·心浮气躁的我安定了下来

我开始沉下心来思考，思考我的考试，思考我的运动会。

几天前，我为了在运动会上取得一个满意的成绩。总是在不断地·训练训练再训练。可是始终却没有得到一个满意的成绩·，是我的心里·很是困惑，苦恼。可是经过妈妈刚才的一席话后。我如同在黑暗中看到了光明。或许当我再次面对失败时，已不再是惧怕，而多了一份迎难而上的精神。

随着枪声的响起，我卖力地向终点处跑去，使出自己全部的力气，不再去想结果会是如何。

"嘭"又是一声枪响。比赛结束了，我赢了。

原来，每一次的成功后面一定会有失败。而这些失败，定·会成为你成功路上的垫脚石，铺就你的成功。

成功需要失败，这已是必然。

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”.

[英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分

The Way to Success

成功之路

Just as the old saying goes “Good beginning is half done”, illustrating the importance and necessity of the preparation work on the condition that you have the longing for the success .A great proportion of inpiduals hold the view that preparation makes an essential part of in the process of achievement; on the contrary, the other parts of persons are in favor of the idea that the previous arrangement is a minor factor for success.

正如俗话所说的“好的开端是成功的”，说明了准备工作的重要性和必要性，对你有渴望成功的条件，一个伟大的比例的人认为，准备是一个重要组成部分，在成就的过程中，相反，其他部分的人是赞成的想法，以前的安排是一个次要因素的成功。

The essentiality of the preparation work is able to be accounted by the following example .As a matter of fact, the method accounts more than the results for the majority of situations, For instance, a student who wants to win outstanding academic performance ought to learn the effective and reasonable methods and approaches for memory and comprehension of the subjects such as physics, chemistry, mathematics and so on. The workers in the factories should learn to master the technique of operating the machines beforehand and in this way can they produce the qualified goods and merchandises.

准备工作的重要性可以通过下面的例子来解释。事实上，该方法账户超过的情况下，多数的结果，例如，一个想要赢得优异的学习成绩，应该学会有效合理的方法、途径和记忆的科目如物理，化学，理解学生，数学等。在工厂里，工人应该学会掌握操作机器预先设定的技术，这样才能生产出合格的货物和商品。

Generally speaking ，Lincoln’s remark “give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe ”reveals the imperative of make preparation .Undoubtedly, only by arranging beforehand can we achieve success whenever we face the perplexing and tough situations.

一般说来，林肯的话“给我六个小时来砍下一棵树，我会花上四个小时来磨一把斧子”，这就揭示了做准备的必要性，毫无疑问，只有在事先安排好的情况下才能取得成功。

[成功之路英语作文

人人都说失败是成功之母，而在失败后，只有奋斗了，才会有所成功。人人都是这样，我也不例外。 Everyone says that failure is the mother of success, and only after failure can they succeed.Everyone is like this, and I am no exception.

记得在四年级的时候，我和一个很淘气的男孩同桌。他成绩很差，上课经常玩东西，还不时地影响到我。让我不能认认真真地听课，不能积极地回答问题。所以那个月，每次考试都考不出好成绩来。

妈妈知道后，对我说：“张一萌，我知道是你同桌在上课时打扰你，你要学会控制住自己不要理睬他，专心听课，回家再把原来没听的课补起来，我相信你一定能回到从前那么优秀的!”

第二天，我去了学校，坐在座位上，全神贯注地看书，那个淘气的男生来了，把椅子猛的拿开，教室便发出巨响，接着，他说：“张一萌，你是个大笨蛋。”我听了，放下书，心平气和地说：“再笨也没有你笨。”说完，又拿起书，目不转睛地看起来。他气愤极了。他一定在想，看我上课怎么整你。

“叮铃铃，”上课铃响了，语文老师吉老师拿着教案走进教室。开始上课了，他又拿出玩具拍拍我说：“张一萌，你看这个小玩具多么可爱呀!是吗?”我当做没有听见似的，继续听课。他又拍了拍我，我还是不理睬，他又说：“你不看白不看，多么好玩的东西。”我听了他的这一句话后，心里痒痒的，特别想看。正当我准备回头看他的玩具时，我又想起妈妈对我说的话，便还是专心地听课了。他无奈，只好自己玩起玩具来。

回到家里，我把今天的经过告诉了妈妈，妈妈表扬了我。然后，我们便开始了补习功课，在做练习时，我遇到了不少的困难，但我从不气馁，从不烦恼，而是开动脑筋，奋斗地思考，绝不放弃，直到把那道题做完为止。

在我的不懈奋斗下，我终于获得了应有的回报，我考了全班第一。

如果成功是鲜艳花朵，那奋斗就是助于它成长的肥料;如果成功是嫩绿小草，那奋斗就是清澈的雨露;如果成功是远大的梦想，那奋斗就是美好的祝福。

只有奋斗，才会有收获;只有奋斗，才会有回报;只有奋斗，才会成功。生活中的一切困难，只要你奋斗去做，你就能克服。

我成功，因为我奋斗。