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いずれにしても語学学習は時には困難で、挫折しそうになることもあります。言葉は単なるコミュニケーションツール以上のもので、新しい視野を開き、異なる文化への理解を深める手段でもあります。その点は理解していてもいいのではないでしょうか。
そこで、この記事では、語学学習の視野拡大と継続的な努力の重要性を思い出させる英語の格言をご紹介します。これらの言葉に触れることで、あなたの学習への情熱が再燃し、新たな視点から学習に取り組む勇気が湧いてくることを願っています。しばし、お付き合いいただければありがたく存じます。知っている名前も探してみてください。
157の英語の格言を一気に紹介
- “A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini
- “A language doesn’t just voice a culture, it unveils a new world.” – Unknown
- “A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.” – Cesar Chavez
- “A language not spoken is like a bird without wings.” – Maltese Proverb
- “A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “A mistake is only a mistake if you don’t learn from it.” – Unknown
- “A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
- “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
- “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
- “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin H. Fischer
- “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
- “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
- “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Jerry Dunn
- “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – Unknown
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
- “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
- “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein
- “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
- “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb
- “He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
- “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
- “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
- “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
- “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
- “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.” – Margaret Fuller
- “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb
- “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” – Phil Collins
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
- “Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon
- “Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” – Rita Mae Brown
- “Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift.” – Frank Smith
- “Language is the archive of history.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Language is the dress of thought.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Language is the key to the heart of people.” – Ahmed Deedat
- “Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.” – Mark Amidon
- “Language is the road map of a culture.” – Rita Mae Brown
- “Language is the source of misunderstandings.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” – Benjamin Lee Whorf
- “Learn a new language and get a new soul.” – Czech Proverb
- “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” – Sarah Caldwell
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
- “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Learning is not a spectator sport.” – D. Blocher
- “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams
- “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
- “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius
- “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” – Cassandra Clare
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
- “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” – Unknown
- “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce
- “Never stop learning; for when we stop learning, we stop growing.” – Loyal Jack
- “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Tony Robbins
- “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
- “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” – Frank Smith
- “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli
- “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” – Isaac Asimov
- “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake
- “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
- “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
- “Success is not just about making money. It’s about making a difference.” – Unknown
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.” – Brian Herbert
- “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “The language we use influences the way we think.” – Steven Pinker
- “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
- “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
- “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” – Thomas Paine
- “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” – Michel Legrand
- “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire
- “The more languages you know, the more you are human.” – Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
- “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
- “The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
- “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “There is no failure. Only feedback.” – Robert Allen
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
- “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle
- “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne
- “To learn a language is to embrace a culture.” – Unknown
- “To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
- “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” – Doug Larson
- “With languages, you are at home anywhere.” – Edward De Waal
- “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
- “You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.” – Geoffrey Willans
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius
- “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” – Marvin Minsky
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond
- “You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.” – Czech proverb
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” – Nora Ephron
- “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
まとめ
英語の格言は、生活の様々な側面について深い洞察と指導を提供します。人々はこれらの言葉を学び、それによって自身の人生観や行動のガイダンスを得ます。
このチャットで紹介した格言のいくつかをまとめました。
- “Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon： 知識が人を力強くし、自己決定と成功の鍵となることを示しています。
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu：どんなに難しい目標も、小さな一歩から始まるということを示しています。
- “Language is the road map of a culture.” – Rita Mae Brown：言語は文化の地図であり、新しい言語を学ぶことは新しい文化の理解への道を開くことを示しています。
- “A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini：新しい言語を学ぶことは、生活に対する新しい視点を開くことを示しています。
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker：未来は予測するものではなく、自分自身で創り出すものであるという考えを示しています。
- “Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” – Unknown：間違いは試みている証であり、それ自体が学習の一部であるという考えを示しています。
これらの格言は、生活の指南、モチベーションの向上、そして人生の問題に対する新しい視点を提供します。それらは、英語学習者が新しい言語を学ぶ際の指針となり、言語を通じて新しい文化と哲学を理解する手助けとなります。
