Here are 29 inspirational quotes to usher in the New Year:

读一读这29句良言，一起来召唤2019的到来吧！

“Tomorrow is a new day, with no mistakes in it yet” – Lucy Maud Montgomery, in Anne of Green Gables

明天是崭新的一天，尚未犯错的一天。

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future. Act now, without delay” – Simone de Beauvoir

改变今天的生活，不要赌将来。行动起来，莫迟疑。

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning” – Albert Einstein

学习昨天，活在今天，期许明天。重要的是，永不停止质疑。

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it” – JM Barrie in Peter Pan

在你怀疑自己能否飞翔的那刻，便注定你永远不会飞翔。

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better” – Samuel Beckett in Worstward Ho!

屡试，屡败，没关系。再试，再败，比上次强。

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope” – Martin Luther King

要接受有限的希望，但不能失去无限的希望。

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future” – Earl Nightingale

学会享受生活的每一秒。就现在，让自己快乐。别等着身外之物让你快乐。

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go” – Dr Seuss

头上有脑，鞋里有脚。你可以去往任何想去的方向。你是独立的，知道自己在想什么，只有自己能决定前进的方向。

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between” – Maya Angelou in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

许最好的愿望，做最坏的准备，面对中间的一切，宠辱不惊。

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” – Confucius

人非圣贤，孰能无过！ 过而能改，善莫大焉。

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise” – Les Miserables

黑夜再黑，终将过去，太阳，终将升起。

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” – Gandhi

活着，就像明天就要死去。学习，就像你会永生。

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” – Eleanor Roosevelt

未来属于那些相信美好梦想的人们。

“From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring, renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king” – JRR Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings

从余火中可点燃星星之火，在阴影中可折射一丝光芒，可将破旧的复新千刀万剐，卫冕之人又将归王。

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realise their dream” – Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

当一个人真的渴望什么时，整个宇宙都会联合起来帮他实现梦想。

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky

不发射，就是百分百脱靶。

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” – Winston Churchill

成功不是终止，失败不会致命。重要的，是继续的勇气。

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future” – George Bernard Shaw

增进智慧，非因沉迷过往，而因对未来的担当。

“It is better to travel well than to arrive” – Buddha

比到达更珍贵的，是旅途的过程。

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing” – Pele

成功不是意外，而是努力、坚持、学习、研究、牺牲，以及最重要的，对所做之事的热爱。

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did” – Mark Twain

20年后，更令你后悔的，不是做了什么，而是没做的那些事。

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” – Thomas Edison

我没有失败，我只是找到了一万种行不通的方式。

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin

存活下来的，不是最强的，不是最聪明的，而是最能适应改变的。

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship” – Louisa May Alcott in Little Women

我不怕暴风雨，因为我学会了航行。

“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future” – John F Kennedy

我们聚在这里，不是要诅咒黑暗，而是点亮蜡烛，带我们穿过黑暗，找到安全而理智的未来。

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever” – Thomas Aquinas

如果一个船长的最高目标只是保护船，那他用于不出港就好了。

“It is never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot

做你想做的自己，再晚开始也不迟。

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet” – Stephen Hawking

记住，要抬头看星星，不要只会低头看脚。

“Live all you can. It’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life” – Henry James in The Ambassadors

倾尽全力活着，否则就犯了大错。做了什么并不重要，只要你还好好活着。

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