從心理學的角度來說，人的動機決定著人的行為方式，只有保持強烈的學習動機，我們才容易堅持下來，這是內在的動因。 同時我們也需要外界不斷的激勵，這些激勵可以來自朋友、親人、老師、同學、同事，也可以是來自壹些好的書籍文章，其中名人名言往往更容易起到激勵的作用，尤其是在我們面對失敗和挫折的時候。很多取得成功的人都有自己的座右銘，而這些座右銘最重要的作用就是不斷地提醒和鼓勵。
在學習英語的過程中我很喜歡讀壹些名人名言，這些充滿著智慧與哲理的精辟語句給我了很大的啟發，我也同時發現壹些所謂難記的單詞在這樣的句子裏面非常容易記住。我把這樣的壹些單詞和名言匯編起來，反復地看，反復地朗誦，既鍛煉了口語，也記住了單詞，當然最關鍵的是鼓勵自己在逆境中奮起，培養樂觀積極的生活態度。
其實我們的生活中每天都需要鼓勵，當我們受到鼓勵的時候，我們會更有信心，更相信自己的能力，我們的工作和學習效率也更佳。下面給出20個例句，並對其中出現的難詞做適當的解釋。
1. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing --- that's why we recommend it daily―― Zig Ziglar
motivation: 鼓勵；鼓舞；派生詞：動詞 motivate; 名詞 motive; 形容詞 motivational;
recommend: 推薦；派生詞：recommendation
2. Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.--James Allen
circumstance：境遇；環境；派生詞：形容詞 circumstantial
reveal:顯示；展現；派生詞：revealable; revealer
3. I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.--Anthony Robbins
masterpiece: 傑作
rank:階層
4. Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
glory:榮耀；派生詞：形容詞 glorious;
5. 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. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.--Earl Nightingale
precious: 珍貴的；
savour: 品嘗；品評
6. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.――Theodore Roosevelt
mighty:強大的；有力的；
triumph:勝利
chequered (= checkered): 充滿變數的；沈浮的；
twilight:黃昏
7. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.---Aristotle
excellence: 優秀；派生詞：excellent (這個單詞本身不難，難的是讓優秀成為壹種習慣)
8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain
bowline:張帆索；
harbour：港口
9. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? --Robert Browning
exceed:超出；超越
grasp:抓住；獲得
10.: Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.--Napoleon Hill
achievement:成就
keen:熱切的
pulsating:搏動的
transcend:超越
11. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.--Norman Vincent Peale
remarkable:了不起的
12. What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.---Anthony Robbins
capability: 能力；派生詞 形容詞 capable
13. Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.--Stephen Covey
endowment: 天賦；天資
conscience:良知
ultimate: 最終的；副詞 ultimately；名詞 ultimatum：最後通牒
14. All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.--Napoleon Hill
accomplishment:成就；派生詞：動詞 accomplish
15. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. ---Brian Tracy
vision: 遠見；派生詞：形容詞 visionary
16. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer
miserable: 可憐的；悲慘的
17. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.--Deepak Chopra
essentially: 本質地；派生詞：形容詞 essential；名詞 essence
infinite: 無限的；派生詞 名詞 infinity
access: 進入；達到； have access to 是習慣用語
18. If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.--Abraham H. Maslow
deliberately：故意地；派生詞：形容詞 deliberate；名詞deliberation
19. Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.--Dale Carnegie
solely: 單獨地；完全地
20. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.--Harry Emerson Fosdick
self-pity:自憐
adventurous:喜歡冒險的；
bundle:捆；包