雅思寫作勵志篇：勇氣與信念

　　中國的勵志小故事很多，在國外，關于勇氣與信念的勵志文章也不少，和小編一起來看看吧!

　　You can achieve almost any goal that you have the courage to set—but sometimes it takes a painful experience to light the way.

　　凡是你有勇氣定下的目標，你幾乎都能實現(xiàn)——但有時候得有一段痛苦的經(jīng)歷照亮你的前程。

　　That was so in my case. When I was 17 years old, I broke my father’s heart. He had saved enough from a very average income to send me to college to become an attorney; 90 days later I was home telling him that I had quit college—and for the first time I saw him cry. With tears in his eyes he said, “Son, I’m always going to love you even though you’ll never amount to anything.”

　　我的情況就是如此。17 歲的時候，我傷透了父親的心。他的收入非常一般，卻攢夠了錢送我上大學，讓我成為一名律師。90 天之后，我回到家告訴他我退學了——那是我第一次見到他哭。他含著眼淚說：“兒子，即使你將來一事無成，我還是會愛你的。” That was my first motivational speech. 那是我第一次聽到的激勵演說。

　　When I walked out of that room, I was burning with something not everyone has the chance to feel. I didn’t just want to succeed—I had to succeed.

　　走出房間，我熱血沸騰，那種感覺不是每個人都能有機會感受到的。我不僅想要成功——我非成功不可。

　　But I couldn’t see how to do it. I became a bridge deck specialist and carried steel up construction ramps for 18 months—and all the time my father’s words were eating at me. I had a wage job that led nowhere except to old age.

　　可是我不知道怎樣才能成功。我成了一名橋板專家，往一個建筑工地的斜坡上扛鋼材，一扛就是 18 個月——而父親的話一直困擾著我。我的工作是按勞計酬，除了混日子，不會有任何前途。

　　I went into sales—and the wages stopped. I earned nothing because that’s what I knew about my profession. Then, just as I was going under for the third time in sales, a man came by and soldme on the Edwards training seminar. I went, I learned the closes and techniques; I lost no time putting them to work. Soon after that, I started tasting the sweet fruits of success for the first time.

　　我開始做銷售——薪水就這樣停掉了。我沒有掙到一分錢，因為我對銷售一無所知。然后，就在我做銷售要經(jīng)歷第三次失敗的時候，有個人找到我，勸我參加愛德華茲培訓研討會。我去了，我學會了各種技巧，我趕緊把這些技巧用到我的工作當中。很快，我就首次嘗到了成功的甜頭。

　　Some time later, I told the management of the company where I worked that my goal was to meet personally with Mr. Edwards. They arranged it for me. When the day came, I told him, “Mr. Edwards, my goal is to someday take your place and someday be able to train people as well as you trained me.”

　　過了一段時間，我對公司主管說，我的目標是親自見見愛德華茲先生。他們?yōu)槲易隽税才?。到了那一天，我對他說：“愛德華茲先生，我的目標是有朝一日取代您的位置，有朝一日能像您當初培訓我一樣培訓別人。”

　　That all came to pass because I set goals to make it happen. Committing to the goal was the essential element. You can’t rise unless you set goals that make you stretch.

　　這一切都實現(xiàn)了，因為我立志要實現(xiàn)這些目標。堅持自己的目標是最重要的。除非你制定的目標使你傾注全力，否則你很難出人頭地。