Paddle your own canoe. - Chinese Idiom

自力更生。- 汉语成语

我爱你至死不渝。- 格言

I shall love you as long as I have breath. – Maxim

I might say that success is won by three things: first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort. – Thomas Hardy

成功之道有三点：努力，努力，再努力。- 托马斯 哈代

安身立命。- 汉语成语

Settle down and get on with one's pursuit. - Chinese Idiom

Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles. (Learn as much as you can and do all you can.) – Dong QiChang

读万卷书，行万里路。- 董其昌

Variety is the spice of life.- Maxim

生活丰富多彩才有乐趣。- 格言

One/s word carries the weight of nine tripods.
(A solemn pledge.) - Chinese Idiom

一言九鼎。- 汉语成语

吃得少，睡得香。- 谚语

Eat little, sleep sound. – Proverb

Well-informed; sophisticated. - Chinese Idiom

见多识广。- 汉语成语

Borrow causes sorrow. - Proverb

举债招忧愁。- 谚语

游手好闲，万恶之源。- 谚语

By doing nothing we learn to do ill. – Proverb

Repent and start anew. - Chinese Idiom

悔过自新。- 汉语成语

深明大义。- 汉语成语

Understand the important principle thoroughly. - Chinese Idiom

甘居人后。- 汉语成语

Willing to fall behind others. - Chinese Idiom

Be torn with anxiety; extremely worried. - Chinese Idiom

忧心如焚。- 汉语成语

人生十分短促，宁静的时间又不多； 我们不应该浪费宝贵的时间去读毫无价值的书。- 拉斯金

Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. – John Ruskin

无德美女犹如没有香气的鲜花。- 格言

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is a flower without perfume. – Maxim

一马当先。- 汉语成语

Take the lead; be in the foremost rank. - Chinese Idiom

Complete sincerity can affect even metal and stone.
(Faith will move a mountain.) - Chinese Idiom

精诚所至，金石为开。- 汉语成语

人的一切——面貌，衣着，心灵和思想，都应该是美好的。- 契诃夫

Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas. – Chekhov