释义:开始时做得好的人确实很多,但能够坚持到底的人却很少。这句话揭示了人们在做事过程中往往容易虎头蛇尾,难以善始善终。 
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.