摘抄：一个人，只有他可以坚持这种心态，只要他在回想从前的一年时可能说“我在成长”，他就仍然年青。下面是小编整理的英语励志美文：变老的那一天，欢迎大家阅读。

“I dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, ”it makes me realize I am growing old.“

William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are ”old fogies at twenty-fiveHe was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their “Principles, ” and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.

The minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.

“我害怕邻近岁末年尾”，一位友人最近对我说：“它使我意识到我正在变老。”

巨大的心理学家威廉?詹姆斯就曾说过，大多数人“25岁时就成了保守掉队者”。他的话是对的。大多数人25岁时就知足于他们的工作。他们已经积聚了一些他们称之为“准则”的成见，对所有新的思维封闭心灵之门;他们已经停止成长。

一个人一旦停滞成长--不论他年纪多大--他就开始朽迈。反之，真正的巨人素来不会衰老。

Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, “What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense.”

And there you have the real answer to the question, “When is a man old?”

Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.

As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , “I grew,” he is still young.

The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, “I know all that I need to know,”--that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.

歌德享年83岁，去世前多少年才实现《浮士德》;格莱斯顿70岁时又开始学习一门本国语;法国地理学家拉普拉斯78岁死时还在工作着。临死前，他大声喊道：“咱们所知的太少太少，我们所不知的太多太多。”

“一个人何时变老?”，从这类事例中对这个问题你已经有了真正的谜底。

拉普拉斯78岁逝世时依然年轻。他照旧不满意，仍旧觉得很多货色要学。

一个人，只有他可以坚持这种心态，只要他在回想从前的一年时可能说“我在成长”，他就仍然年青。

他一旦结束成长，他一旦对本人说“我该懂的都懂了”，这个时候他的青春也就完了。他可能在25岁时死去，也可能在75岁时逝世去，这都不差别。就在那一天，他开端变老。