Frases motivacionais

05/01/2010 01:10

 

 “É melhor Arriscar coisas Grandiosas, alcançar Triunfos e Glórias, mesmo se expondo a derrota, do que formar filas com os pobres de espírito que nem gozam muito, nem sofrem muito, porque vivem nessa penumbra cinzenta que não conhece nem a vitória e nem a derrota”.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

 

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
-- Mark Twain.

 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

 

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
-- William J. H. Boetcker.

 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw.

 

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. ("Letter from Birmingham Jail" in "Why We Can't Wait", 1963.)

 

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
-- Confucius.

 

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden.

 

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
-- Benjamin Franklin.

 

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-- Seneca.

 

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-- Henry David Thoreau.

 

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
-- Albert Einstein.

 

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker.

 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
-- David Ben-Gurion.

 

Only those who dare fail greatly can achieve greatly.
-- Robert F. Kennedy.

 

It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.
-- Roman Proverb.

 

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.
-- Jane Elliot.

 

And the trouble is if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-- Erica Jong.

 

...a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing...
-- Thomas Jefferson.

 

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn.