学习英语的过程中，记忆单词是必不可缺的一个环节。但是单纯地去记忆一些孤立的单词往往是枯燥乏味的，而且时间一常很容易让人们产生厌烦情绪，进而产生放弃学习的念头， 即使硬着头皮坚持，但是效果往往不佳，结果是功倍事半。
从心理学的角度来说，人的动机决定着人的行为方式，只有保持强烈的学习动机，我们才容易坚持下来，这是内在的动因。 同时我们也需要外界不断的激励，这些激励可以来自朋友、亲人、老师、同学、同事，也可以是来自一些好的书籍文章，其中名人名言往往更容易起到激励的作用，尤其是在我们面对失败和挫折的时候。很多取得成功的人都有自己的座右铭，而这些座右铭最重要的作用就是不断地提醒和鼓励。
在学习英语的过程中我很喜欢读一些名人名言，这些充满着智慧与哲理的精辟语句给我了很大的启发，我也同时发现一些所谓难记的单词在这样的句子里面非常容易记住。我把这样的一些单词和名言汇编起来，反复地看，反复地朗诵，既锻炼了口语，也记住了单词，当然最关键的是鼓励自己在逆境中奋起，培养乐观积极的生活态度。
其实我们的生活中每天都需要鼓励，当我们受到鼓励的时候，我们会更有信心，更相信自己的能力，我们的工作和学习效率也更佳。下面给出20个例句，并对其中出现的难词做适当的解释。
1. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing --- that's why we recommend it daily―― Zig Ziglar
motivation: 鼓励；鼓舞；派生词：动词 motivate; 名词 motive; 形容词 motivational;
recommend: 推荐；派生词：recommendation
2. Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.--James Allen
circumstance：境遇；环境；派生词：形容词 circumstantial
reveal:显示；展现；派生词：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: 杰作
rank:阶层
4. Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
glory:荣耀；派生词：形容词 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: 珍贵的；
savour: 品尝；品评
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:强大的；有力的；
triumph:胜利
chequered (= checkered): 充满变数的；沉浮的；
twilight:黄昏
7. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.---Aristotle
excellence: 优秀；派生词：excellent (这个单词本身不难，难的是让优秀成为一种习惯)
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:张帆索；
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；获得
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:热切的
pulsating:搏动的
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；派生词 形容词 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: 天赋；天资
conscience:良知
ultimate: 最终的；副词 ultimately；名词 ultimatum：最后通牒
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；派生词：动词 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: 远见；派生词：形容词 visionary
16. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer
miserable: 可怜的；悲惨的
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: 本质地；派生词：形容词 essential；名词 essence
infinite: 无限的；派生词 名词 infinity
access: 进入；达到； have access to 是习惯用语
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；派生词：形容词 deliberate；名词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: 单独地；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:自怜
adventurous:喜欢冒险的；
bundle:捆；包