We are not put on this earth to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures, but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down...

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform....

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past. 競争は我々に昔の好機を強調しすぎ、奴隷のように過去にうまくいったことを真...

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we...

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. 我々が互いに信義に背く時、海は我々をのみ込み、光は消えるのです。 James Baldwin...

Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them. あなたが見つけられる限りの最も賢い人たちに囲まれなさい。 Marissa Mayer マリッサ・メイヤー（米国IT実業家）

Conscience is the most sacred of all property. 良心とは財産全ての中で最も神聖なものです。 James Madison　ジェームス・マディソン（米国第4代大統領）

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. 愛はいつでも旬の果物で、全ての人の手に届くところにあるのです。 Mother Teresa マザー・テレサ（カトリック教会の聖人）

I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job. 良い仕事をするのに近道があるかどうか私は知らない。 Sandra Day O'connor サンドラ・デイ・オコナー（米国法律家）

It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. 新しいアイデアが妥当だと思われるのはいつも後からで、最初は通常わけのわか...

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. 重大な事を引き受ける人は、たとえ規則的なやり方であっても、我々...

This is not a time for tinkering; it is a time for transformation. 今は小さな変更を加える時ではなく、変革の時です。 Ban Ki・Moon　パン・ギムン（第8代国連事務総長）

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an...

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours,...

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. あなたがしなければいけないことは、自分がどこに行くのか知る事です。答えはひとりで...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice....

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself... It's only when you...

My best successes came on the heels of failures. 私の最高の成功は、失敗の直後に来た。 Barbara Corcoran　バーバラ・コーコラン（米国実業家）

Pessimism never won any battles, whether in peace or in war. 悲観主義はどんな戦いにも勝てない、平和の内でも戦争中でも。 Dwight D. Eisenhower ドワイト・D・アイゼンハワー（米国第34代大統領）

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our...