We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~
人間はみずからが愛するものごとによって、形づくられる。 ~ヨハン・ヴォルフガング・フォン・ゲーテ~
It is not length of life, but depth of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
重要なのは人生の長さではない。人生の深さだ。 ~ラルフ・ワルド・エマーソン~
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today. ~Lewis Carroll~
明日と昨日は多忙でも、決して今日を多忙にしないのが、私の流儀だ。 ~ルイス・キャロル~
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. ~Confucius~
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
雑草とは何か?その美点がまだ発見されていない植物である。 ~ラルフ・ワルド・エマーソン~
逆境・困難に立ち向かうための名言
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; If we did not sometimes taste the adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
~Anne Dudley Bradstreet~
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
~Dale Breckenridge Carnegie~
動かないことが疑いと恐れを生み出す。
~デール・カーネギー~
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~Dale Breckenridge Carnegie~
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
~Henry Ford~
障害がおそろしいものに見えるのは、目標から目を離すからだ。
~ヘンリー・フォード~
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~
逆境に打ち勝つ唯一の方法は、新しい活動である。
~ヨハン・ヴォルフガング・フォン・ゲーテ~
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
~Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry~
A leader is a dealer in hope.
~Napoléon Bonaparte~
リーダーとは「希望を配る人」のことだ。
~ナポレオン・ボナパルト~
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
~Peter Ferdinand Drucker~
成功したビジネスでは、必ず誰かが一度は英断を下している
~ピーター・ドラッカー~
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
~Henry Ford~
When we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.
~Walt Disney~
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
~Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry~
計画のない目標は、ただの願い事にすぎない。
~アントワーヌ・ド・サン=テグジュペリ~
The future depends on what we do in the present.
~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi~
未来は、「今、我々が何を為すか」にかかっている。
~マハトマ・ガンディー~
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy~
失敗する勇気のある人のみ、大成功をおさめることができる。
~ジョン・F・ケネディ~
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
~George Eliot~
あなたがなっていたであろう人になるのに、遅すぎることはない。
~ジョージ・エリオット~
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~Socrates~
良い評判を得る方法は、自分自身が望む姿になるよう努力することだ。
~ソクラテス~
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
~Dale Breckenridge Carnegie~
成功する人は、失敗から学び、別な方法でやり直す。
~デール・カーネギー~
Do the hard jobs first.The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
~Dale Breckenridge Carnegie~
まず難しい仕事から始めよう。易しい仕事は勝手に片付いていくだろうから。
~デール・カーネギー~
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand – without growing weary.
~Thomas Alva Edison,~
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but,while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~
出来る人とはその瞬間をつかめる人だ。
~ヨハン・ヴォルフガング・フォン・ゲーテ~
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
一粒の木の実は、いくつもの森を生む。
~ラルフ・ワルド・エマーソン~
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca~
運命は、快く受ける者を導き、しぶしぶな者を引きずる。
~ルキウス・アンナエウス・セネカ~
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
~Florence Nightingale~
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
~Dale Breckenridge Carnegie~
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~
One thing life has taught me: If you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~Socrates~
一の真の英知とは、自分が無知であることを知ることにある。
~ソクラテス~
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin~
知識に投資することは、常に最大の利益をもたらす。
~ベンジャミン・フランクリン~
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
~Henry Ford~
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. ~Leonardo da Vinci ~
その手に魂が込められなければ、芸術は生まれない。 ~レオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチ~
恋愛に関する名言
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry~
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality. ~John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy~
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau~
良心は精神の声であり、情熱は肉体の声である。 ~ジャン・ジャック・ルソー~
The unexamined life is not worth living. ~Socrates~
吟味されざる生に、生きる価値なし。 ~ソクラテス~
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. ~Charles Robert Darwin~
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained. ~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi~
– Seven Deadly Sins – – Wealth without work – – Pleasure without conscience – – Science without humanity – – Knowledge without character – – Politics without principle – – Commerce without morality – – Worship without sacrifice – ~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi~