世界の偉人の名言集 その1

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered I was not God.

Be audacious!

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.

War is too important to be left to the generals.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Some people fell with their heads and think with their hearts.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, then starting on the first one.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading and the other by association with smarter people.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one is not.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Life is too short for the indulgence of animosity.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.

Maturity is the ability to live with ambiguity.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

So little done, so much to do.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubts.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

Well done is better than well said.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

The only really smart thing about me is that I know enough to hire men who are smarter than I am.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Happiness, like youth and health, is rarely appreciated until it is past.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

My sun sets to rise again.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures sccess to the weak, and esteem to all.