西奥多·罗斯福(Theodore Roosevelt,1858 —1919)

西奥多·罗斯福(Theodore Roosevelt,1858 —1919),又译狄奥多·罗斯福,人称老罗斯福,昵称泰迪(Teddy),荷兰裔美国军事家、政治家、外交家   ,第26任美国总统。

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
人们不在乎你知道多少,除非他们知道你多么在乎他们。

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
没有自由的秩序和没有秩序的自由同样具有破坏性。

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

如果没有战争,就不会有伟大的将军; 如果没有一个伟大的机会,就不会出现一个伟大的政治家; 如果林肯生活在和平时期,就没有人会知道他的名字。

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
每个人都应该记住,批评家的工作完全是次要的,而进步最终是由做事的人来完成的。

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
成功的公式中最重要的一项成分是知道如何与人相处。

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.
将摧毁美国的是不惜任何代价的繁荣、不惜任何代价的太平、以安全优先而不是责任优先、对舒适生活的热爱以及快速致富的生活理论。

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
只教育和提高一个人的智能而不教育他的道德,这将会给社会培养出一个的祸害。

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
一个从未上过学的人可能会从货车上偷东西; 但如果他受过大学教育,他可能会偷走整条铁路。

It was from Teddy Roosevelt, who was known to call it like it is. Here are his words of wisdom: “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”. The harsh reality is that we make choices, we make excuses and we make the life that we have. And if it’s not the life that we want, we have only one place to look to find the culprit – the mirror.
“如果你责备那个给你造成了很多麻烦的人,你一个月都坐不住。”—— 泰迪·罗斯福

残酷的现实是,我们做出选择,我们找借口,我们创造我们所拥有的生活。如果这不是我们想要的生活,我们只有一个地方可以找到罪魁祸首——镜子。

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