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2008年に大ヒットした大河ドラマ「篤姫」。その中で松平春嶽のところで対面した勝海舟が小松帯刀にこんな言葉を言ってました。

「上等な人間ていうのは力で人を動かしたりしません。心です。心で動かすもんですよ。そういうもんです。」

これは上等な人間というもののキャラクターに関しての勝海舟の定義ですが、英語でのcharacterにもそんなぐっと来るような定義が為されることがあります。

個人的には英語学習のテクニック以前にこーゆー点を大事にしたいと思ってます。エマーソンの言葉など本当に素敵じゃないですか・・・

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."
-- Grenville Kleiser

"Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do – show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum."
-- Denis Waitley

"Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance."
-- Charles H. Parkhurst

"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
-- Sir Joshua Reynolds

"The highest qualities of character... must be earned."
-- Lyman Abbott

"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
-- Proverbs 23:7, Bible

"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your ability to function well in the inevitable crisis is the true measure of the person you are."
-- Brian Tracy

"If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with the moral principles."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
-- Andre Gide

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he had failed, for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."
-- Georges Clemenceau

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be defected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter."
-- Henry Fielding

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
-- John Milton

"My preferred person today is one who is always aware of the needs of others, or their pain and fear and unhappiness, and their search for self-respect. I once liked clever people. Now I like good people."
-- Soloman Freehof

"The highest reward for a man´s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
-- John Ruskin

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
-- Helen Keller