My desire to live and to succeed is far greater than my fear of failure. The past is over, and all we can do is learn from them.

我对生存与成功的渴望要远远大于对失败的恐惧。过去的已经过去了，我们可以做的是从中汲取教训。

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People have two major motivations: the desire for gain and the fear of loss.

人有两大激励因素：对获得的渴望和对失去的恐惧。

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Often, our push towards perfection is not driven by a desire to do our best but by a fear that our work - and our self - isn't good enough.

通常，我们顽固地追求着完美，不是因为“想要做最好的自己”，而是源于对自我以及工作本身的恐惧。

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Fear, you will remember is associated with the desire for security, order, rationality, and peace. Pride is connected with the love of glory, honor, recognition and ambition.

要知道，人的恐惧是与其内心对安全,秩序，理性与和平的渴望联系在一起的，而自豪是与荣耀，声誉，志向与他人的认可,联系在以一起的。

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So, the modern state, as we know it and still have it, in many ways grew out of the Hobbesian desire for security and the fear of death that can only be achieved at the expense of the desire for honor and glory.

所以我们知道的现代国家的建立,正如霍布斯所论,是人们对安全的渴求而导致的,只要一个人仍对荣誉有着强烈的渴求,他就永远不会对死亡产生恐惧。

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