偉大な人物の珠玉の言葉（3）


杉田敏先生著作のNHKラジオ「ビジネス英会話　海外勤務・大滝怜治　編」（NHK出版）の英語教材から心に残る言葉を引用して紹介します。
世界中の偉大な人物たちが発した珠玉の言葉です。
NHK出版から毎月発刊されるNHKラジオ「実践ビジネス英語」（杉田敏講師）のテキストは、学校の教科書を十分学習した後、次の段階を目指す高校生には最適の教材になると思います。
杉田敏先生は、株式会社プラップジャパン代表取締役社長、上智大学講師、NHKビジネス英語の講師その他たくさんの分野で活躍されています。



I am learning all the time.The tombstone will be my diploma.
-Eartha Kitt




Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
-Alfred Victor Vigny




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




You can either take action,or you can hang back and hope for a miracle.Miracles are great,but they are so unpredictable.
-Peter F. Drucker


Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas A. Edison



If I had more time,I’d have written a shorter letter.
-Mark Twain



Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it,for that determines our success or failure.
-Norman Vincent Peale




The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.The hard part is doing it.
-H. Norman Schwarzkopf


If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.
-George S. Patton



All things are possible until they are proved impossible.-and even the impossible may only be so,as of now.
-Pearl S. Buck




The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee.And I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
-John D. Rockefeller



Science is what you know;philosophy is what you don’t know.
-Bertrand Russell


The worst mistakes in business are made in good times,not in bad times.
-Thomas J. Watson Sr.