即使是中文里,教导人们遵守诺言的俗语也层出不穷:“人而无信,不知其可也””言必信,行必果“。重信守诺应该是对一个人较高的评价了吧?
1. A word spoken is an arrow let fly. 一言既出,驷马难追。
2. A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出,驷马难追。
3. So said, so done.说到做到。言出必行。
4. A work ill done must be twice done. 未做好的活,需要重新做。
5. A wanderer who is determined to reach his destination does not fear the rain. 决心赶到目的地,浪汉何惧雨来淋。
6. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. 平静的海洋练不出熟练的水手。
7. A watched pot is long in boiling. 心急水不沸。
8. A willful man will have his way. 有志者事竟成。
9. Will is power. 意志就是力量
10. A man can not spin and reel at the same time. 一心不能二用。
11. A man cannot whistle and drink at he same time. 一心不能二用。
12. A man can do no more than he can. 凡事只能量力而行。
13. All men cannot be first. 不可能人人都得第一名。
14. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. 适可而止,过犹不及。
15. All things are difficult before they are easy. 凡事都是先难后易。
16. Learn to walk before you run. 循序渐进
17. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. 千言万语不如一个行动。
18. A living dog is better than a dead lion. 一条活狗胜过一头死狮。
19. A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. 一千个“或有”不能造成一个事实。
20. As the inner life is, so will be the language. 言为心声。
21. As a man's heart is, so does he speak. 言为心声。
22. A life without a purpose is a ship without a rudder. 人生无目的,犹如船失去了舵。
23. A great ship asks deep water. 巨轮寻深水而航行。
24. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 讲而不做,犹如花园里长满了荒草。
25. A man apt to promise is apt to forget. 轻诺者易忘。
26. A bargain is a bargain. 达成的协议不可撕毁。
27. As soon as you have drunk, you turn your back upon the spring. 忘恩负义。
28. A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword. 勇士的神色胜过懦夫的刀剑。