Frases de Theodore Roosevelt

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“Faça o que puder, com o que tiver, onde estiver.”

“O único homem que nunca comete erros é aquele que nunca faz coisa alguma.”

“Acredite que você pode, assim você já está no meio do caminho.”

“Mantenha os seus olhos nas estrelas e os seus pés na terra”

“As pessoas não se importam com o quanto você sabe até saberem o quanto você se importa.”

“Um bom conhecimento da Bíblia vale mais do que uma educação superior. Quase todas as pessoas que com o trabalho de suas vidas acrescentaram algo para o conjunto das realizações humanas… basearam o seu trabalho grandemente nos ensinamentos da Bíblia.”

“Não importa o que as outras pessoas falem de você, o importante é que você continue sendo a pessoa que sempre foi. Se mudar mude para melhor.”

“O único ingrediente mais importante na fórmula do sucesso é saber se entender com as pessoas.”

“O mais importante ingrediente na fórmula do sucesso é saber como lidar com as pessoas.”

“Todo homem que investe em um imóvel bem selecionado, em uma comunidade próspera, adota o método mais seguro de se tornar independente. Imóvel é a base da riqueza.”

“Convém a cada homem lembrar que o trabalho do crítico, é de importância completamente secundária, e que, no final, o progresso é realizado pelo homem que faz as coisas.”

“Nenhum homem é justificado em fazer o mal pelo fundamento da utilidade.”

“Um homem que rouba por mim fatalmente roubará de mim.”

“O vigor físico é bom, o vigor intelectual melhor ainda, mas, muito acima de ambos, está o vigor do caráter.”

“É difícil melhorar nossa condição material com leis boas, mas é muito fácil arruiná-la com leis ruins.”

“Fale suavemente e carregue um grande porrete.”

“Se fracassar, ao menos que fracasse ousando grandes feitos, de modo que a sua postura não seja nunca a dessas almas frias e tímidas que não conhecem nem a vitória nem a derrota.”

“Sempre que lhe perguntarem se você sabe fazer um trabalho, diga que sim? e apresse-se em descobrir como executá-lo.”

“A justiça não consiste em ser neutro entre o certo e o errado, mas em descobrir o certo e sustentá-lo, onde quer que ele se encontre, contra o errado.”

“A conservação dos recursos naturais é o problema fundamental. Se não o resolvermos, ficará difícil resolver todos os demais.”

“É difícil fracassar, mas é pior nunca ter tentado ter sucesso.”

“A polidez é um sinal de dignidade, não subserviência.”

“De longe, o maior prêmio que a vida oferece é a chance de trabalhar muito e se dedicar a algo que valha a pena.”

“Fale macio e use um porrete.”

“Nada é impossível. Se puder ser sonhado, então pode ser feito.”

“É muito melhor arriscar coisas grandiosas, alcançar triunfos e glórias, mesmo expondo-se a derrota, do que formar fila com os pobres de espírito que nem gozam muito nem sofrem muito, porque vivem nessa penumbra cinzenta que não conhece vitória nem derrota.”

“Muito melhor é ousar grande feitos, ganhar gloriosos triunfos, mesmo salpicados de falhas, do que se alinhar com aqueles pobres espíritos que nem se alegram muito nem sofrem muito, porque eles vivem no crepúsculo cinzento que não conhece vitória ou derrota.”

“Transpira e serás salvo.”

“A conquista pode ser repleta de mal ou bem para a humanidade, de acordo com o valor comparativo entre o povo que conquistou e o conquistado.”

“Quando se faz a chamada no senado, os senadores não sabem quando devem responder presenteou inocente.”

“A morte é sempre e em todas as circunstâncias uma tragédia, pois, se não o é, quer dizer que a própria vida passou a ser uma tragédia.”

“Estamos face a face com nosso destino, e devemos encontrá-lo com muita coragem e resolução. Para nós é a vida de ação, da extenuante performance do dever; deixe-nos viver nos arreios, esforçando-nos vigorosamente; deixe-nos correr o risco de nos desgastarmos do que enferrujarmos.”

“Quando você está no final da sua corda, dê um nó e segure-se.”

“Eu posso ser presidente dos Estados Unidos ou posso controlar Alice. Não posso fazer as duas coisas.”

“Nós, dos Estados Unidos, precisamos acima de tudo lembrar que”

“Os dois sentimentos, inveja e arrogância, são apenas lados opostos do mesmo escudo, mas desenvolvimentos diferentes do mesmo espírito.”

“Cometeremos erros; e se deixarmos que esses erros nos assustem com o trabalho, mostraremos a nós mesmos fracos.”

“Coragem não é ter forças para continuar; é continuar mesmo quando você não tem forças.”

“Personally, I do not believe that our civilization will fall. I think that on the whole we have grown better and not worse. I think that on the whole the future holds more for us than even the great past has held. But, assuredly, the dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true. We can not afford to develop any one set of qualities, any one set of activities, at the cost of seeing others, equally necessary, atrophied. Neither the military efficiency of the Mongol, the extraordinary business ability of the Phoenician, nor the subtle and polished intellect of the Greek availed to avert destruction.”

“To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.”

“It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.”

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

“I could carve a better man out of a banana. ”

“The American people should itself do these things for the immigrants. If we leave the immigrant to be helped by representatives of foreign governments, by foreign societies, by a press and institutions conducted in a foreign language and in the interest of foreign governments, and if we permit the immigrants to exist as alien groups, each group sundered from the rest of the citizens of the country, we shall store up for ourselves bitter trouble in the future.”

“For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.”

“I appeal to history. Among the generals of Washington in the Revolutionary War were Greene, Putnam, and Lee, who were of English descent; Wayne and Sullivan, who were of Irish descent; Marion, who was of French descent; Schuyler, who was of Dutch descent, and Muhlenberg and Herkimer, who were of German descent. But they were all of them Americans and nothing else, just as much as Washington. Carroll of Carrollton was a Catholic; Hancock a Protestant; Jefferson was heterodox from the standpoint of any orthodox creed; but these and all the other signers of the Declaration of Independence stood on an equality of duty and right and liberty, as Americans and nothing else.”

“The line of cleavage drawn on principle and conduct in public affairs is never in any healthy community identical with the line of cleavage between creed and creed or between class and class. On the contrary, where the community life is healthy, these lines of cleavage almost always run nearly at right angles to one another. It is eminently necessary to all of us that we should have able and honest public officials in the nation, in the city, in the state. If we make a serious and resolute effort to get such officials of the right kind, men who shall not only be honest but shall be able and shall take the right view of public questions, we will find as a matter of fact that the men we thus choose will be drawn from the professors of every creed and from among men who do not adhere to any creed.”

“We must recognize that it is a cardinal sin against democracy to support a man for public office because he belongs to a given creed or to oppose him because he belongs to a given creed. It is just as evil as to draw the line between class and class, between occupation and occupation in political life. No man who tries to draw either line is a good American. True Americanism demands that we judge each man on his conduct, that we so judge him in private life and that we so judge him in public life.”

“We grudge no man a fortune which represents merely his own power and sagacity exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. But the fortune must not only be honorably obtained and well used; it is also essential that it should not represent a necessary incident of widespread, even though partial, economic privation. It is not even enough that the fortune should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should only permit it to be gained and kept so long as the gaining and the keeping represent benefit to the community.”

“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

“Exactly as each man, while doing first his duty to his wife and the children within his home, must yet, if he hopes to amount to much, strive mightily in the world outside his home, so our nation, while first of all seeing to its own domestic well-being, must not shrink from playing its part among the great nations without. Our duty may take many forms in the future as it has taken many forms in the past. Nor is it possible to lay down a hard-and-fast rule for all cases. We must ever face the fact of our shifting national needs, of the always-changing opportunities that present themselves. But we may be certain of one thing: whether we wish it or not, we cannot avoid hereafter having duties to do in the face of other nations. All that we can do is to settle whether we shall perform these duties well or ill.”

“No hard and fast rule can be laid down as to where our legislation shall stop in interfering between man and man, between interest and interest. All that can be said is that it is highly undesirable on the one hand, to weaken individual initiative, and on the other hand, that in a constantly increasing number of cases we shall find it necessary in the future to shackle cunning as in the past we have shackled force.”

“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

“It is a dreadful thing to come into the Presidency in this way; but it would be far worse to be morbid about it. Here is the task, and I have got to do it to the best of my ability.”

“We need, in the interest of the community at large, a rigid system of game laws rigidly enforced, and it is not only admissible, but one may almost say necessary, to establish, under the control of the State, great national forest reserves, which shall also be breeding grounds and nurseries for wild game; but I should much regret to see grow up in this country a system of large private game preserves, kept for the enjoyment of the very rich.”

“No candid observer will deny that whatever of good there may be in our American civilization is the product of Christianity.”

“We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.”

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

“There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.”

“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”

“The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”

“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”