Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Jacinda Ardern - You can be both empathetic and strong.

Jacinda Ardern - You can be both empathetic and strong.
Jacinda Ardern


"You can be both empathetic and strong." - Jacinda Ardern.

"๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค." - ์ €์‹ ๋‹ค ์•„๋˜.


Jacinda Ardern – "You Can Be Both Empathetic and Strong"

Jacinda Ardern (born 1980) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023. She became the world's youngest female head of government at the time of her election and gained international recognition for her compassionate leadership style. Ardern led her nation through extraordinary crises, including the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Her response to these tragedies — marked by empathy, decisive action, and clear communication — earned her global admiration and redefined what modern leadership can look like.


์ €์‹ ๋‹ค ์•„๋˜(1980๋…„ ์ถœ์ƒ)์€ ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ •์น˜์ธ์œผ๋กœ, 2017๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2023๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ ์ œ40๋Œ€ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์—ญ์ž„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ทจ์ž„ ๋‹น์‹œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ์—ฐ์†Œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ˜์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณต๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋กœ ๊ตญ์ œ์ ์ธ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋˜์€ 2019๋…„ ํฌ๋ผ์ด์ŠคํŠธ์ฒ˜์น˜ ๋ชจ์Šคํฌ ์ด๊ฒฉ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๊ณผ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๋“ฑ ๋น„์ƒํ•œ ์œ„๊ธฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ฐ, ๋‹จํ˜ธํ•œ ํ–‰๋™, ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต์œผ๋กœ ํŠน์ง•์ง€์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋Œ€์‘์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ฐฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ •์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Jacinda Ardern


The Meaning Behind the Quote

"You can be both empathetic and strong" challenges the traditional notion that effective leadership requires emotional detachment. Ardern believes that compassion and strength are not opposites — they complement each other. True strength lies in the ability to understand others' pain while making tough decisions. This perspective redefines power as something that uplifts rather than dominates.


"๊ณต๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ฐ•ํ•ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์  ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๊ด€๋…์— ๋„์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋˜์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ•ํ•จ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์™„ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ฐ•ํ•จ์€ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํƒ€์ธ์˜ ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์€ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์ •์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Jacinda Ardern


How Ardern Demonstrated Empathetic Strength

Following the Christchurch tragedy, Ardern immediately embraced the Muslim community, wore a hijab in solidarity, and swiftly enacted stricter gun laws. During the pandemic, she communicated with warmth and clarity, even hosting casual Facebook Live sessions from her home to connect with citizens. These actions showed that responding with heart does not weaken leadership — it enhances public trust and national unity.


ํฌ๋ผ์ด์ŠคํŠธ์ฒ˜์น˜ ๋น„๊ทน ์ดํ›„ ์•„๋˜์€ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๋ฌด์Šฌ๋ฆผ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด๋ฅผ ํฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฐ๋Œ€์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ ํžˆ์žก์„ ์ฐฉ์šฉํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋” ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์ด๊ธฐ ๊ทœ์ œ๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์—๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ง‘์—์„œ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ–‰๋™๋“ค์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์„ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋Œ€์ค‘์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์™€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์  ๋‹จ๊ฒฐ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Jacinda Ardern


Why This Quote Inspires Leaders Today

Ardern's message resonates powerfully in an era seeking more humane leadership. In business, politics, and everyday life, people increasingly value leaders who listen, understand, and care. This quote encourages aspiring leaders to embrace vulnerability as a strength and to lead with both courage and kindness, proving that empathy is not weakness — it is the highest form of strength.


์•„๋˜์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ๋” ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์šธ๋ฆผ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค, ์ •์น˜, ์ผ์ƒ์ƒํ™œ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ฒฝ์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ , ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ฅผ ์ ์  ๋” ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ช…์–ธ์€ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ฅผ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ทจ์•ฝํ•จ์„ ๊ฐ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ์šฉ๊ธฐ์™€ ์นœ์ ˆํ•จ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ–์ถ”์–ด ์ด๋Œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด ์•ฝํ•จ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ๊ฐ•ํ•จ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•ด ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.





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