雙語散文:我要養成良好的習慣
【英文原文】
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and
those who have successed lies in the difference of their habits.
Good habits are the key to all success.
Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.
Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is --
I will form good habits and become their slave.
As a child I was slave to my impulses;
now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.
I have surrendered my free will to the years of
accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already
marked out a path which threatens to imprison my future.
My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love,
fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit.
Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit,
let me be a slave to good habits.
My bad habits must be destroyed and
new furrows prepared for good seed.
I will form good habits and become their slave.
【中文譯文】
事實上，成功與失敗的最大分野，來自不同的習慣。
好習慣是開啓成員的鑰匙，壞習慣則是一扇向失敗敞開的門。
因此，我首先要做的便是養成良好的習慣，全心全意去實行。
小時候．我常會感情用事，長大成人了，我要用良好的習慣代替一時的衝動。
我的自由意志屈服於多年養成的惡習，它們威脅着我的前途。
我的行爲受到品味、情感、偏見、慾望、愛、恐懼、環境和習慣的影響，
其中最厲害的就是習慣。
因此．如果我必須受習慣支配的話，那就讓我受好習慣的支配。
那些壞習慣必須戒除，我要在新的田地裏播種好的種子。
我要養成良好的習慣，全心全意去實行。
