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英语励志故事短文字篇一
hearing the young man”s words, the old couple felt very disappointed, and turned around to leave.
just as they were leaving, the young man came up to them and stopped them: "madam and sir, if you don”t mind, you can sleep in my bedroom for a night......."
the next evening, the old couple took out lots of money to give it to the young man, but he refused to take it.
"no！you needn”t pay me any money, for i only lend my room to you." said the young man with a smile on his face.
"you”re great, young man! it”s very kind of you. maybe one day, i”ll build a hotel for you!" said the old man gratefully.
with these words, the old couple left.
gazing at their receding figures, the young man only laughed and went on working.
several years later, the young man suddenly received a letter from the old couple, inviting him to go to manhattan(曼哈顿) .
the young man met the old couple in front of a luxury hotel(豪华饭店).
"do you still remember what i said to you several years ago? look! this is the hotel that i built for you!" said the old man.
soon, the young man became the manager of the hotel.
英语励志故事短文字篇二
a young rich man to consult a success, but the rich man took three different sizes in front of a watermelon on the youth, "if each piece of watermelon on behalf of the interests of a certain extent, you choose that piece?"
"of course is the biggest piece of!" young did not hesitate to answer.
rich man smiled: "well, please now!" rich people to the biggest piece of watermelon to the youth, while they eat the smallest piece.
soon, rich on the finish, and then pick up the last piece of watermelon table proudly shook the face of the young, with big stuttering.
young people immediately understand the meaning of the rich: the rich man does not eat the melon melon young people, and eat more than young people.
if each piece of watermelon on behalf of the interests of a certain degree, then the interests of rich natural possession of more than youth.
eating watermelon, rich youth said: "to be successful, we must learn to give up, only to give up immediate interests in order to obtain long-term italian, and this is my success."
英语励志故事短文字篇三
when henry ford decided to produce his famous v-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design in one for the engine. the design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in .
ford said, “produce it anyway.”
“but,” they replied, “it’s impossible!”
“go ahead.” ford commanded, “and stay on the job until you succeed, no matter how much time is required.”
the engineers went ahead. there was nothing else for them to do, if they were to remain on the ford staff. six months passed and nothing happened. another six months passed, and still nothing happened. the engineers tried every conceivable plan to carry out the orders, but the thing seemed out of the question:“impossible!”
at the end of the year ford checked with his engineers, and again they informed him they had found no way to carry out his orders.
“go right head,” said ford, “i want it, and i’ll have it.”
they went ahead, and then, as if by a stroke of magic, the secret was discovered.
the ford determination had won once more!
this story may not be described with minute accuracy, but the sum and substance of it is correct. deduce from it, you who wish to think and grow rich, the secret of the ford millions, if you can. you’ll not have to look very far.
henry ford was successful, because he understood and applied the principles of success. one of these is desire: knowing out the lines in which the secret of his stupendous achievement have been described. if you can do this, if you can lay your finger on the particular group of principles which made henry ford rich, you can equal his achievements in almost any calling for which you are suited.
英语励志故事短文字篇四
an old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses:
that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing.
this agreement being made, the physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little.
and when he had got all she had, he healed her and demanded the promised payment.
the old woman, when she recovered her sight and saw none of her goods in her house, would give him nothing.
the physician insisted on his claim, and. as she still refused, summoned her before the judge.
the old woman, standing up in the court, argued: "this man here speaks the truth in what he says; for i did promise to give him a sum of money if i should recover my sight:
but if i continued blind, i was to give him nothing.
now he declares that i am healed. i, on the contrary affirm that i am still blind; for when i lost the use of my eyes, i saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears i am cured of my blindness, i am not able to see a single thing in it."
