Sentence examples for you will go far from inspiring English sources
In his words "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".
Probably Roosevelt's most famous line was one that he said came from a West African proverb: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".
President Theodore Roosevelt's slogan, "Speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far," seemed an apt one for this period of U.S. foreign policy.
He also thanked one of his teachers, Miss Jenny Walker, who had prophetically said of him in 1943, "You have a fine sense of humor and I think you will go far in the entertainment world".
So when they see their pupils studying, they think they finally got the message that they had been striving so hard and long to send: study hard and you will go far.
He said America should 'walk softly and carry a big stick".' In a letter written in 1900, a year before he became president, Theodore Roosevelt wrote, "I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".' He repeated what he called this "homely old adage" in a speech as president in Chicago in 1903, and twice again in his writings after that.
But we don't think you'll go far wrong in this easy-going city.
Martha, we think you'll go far.
When you get out of that place you'll go far in life.
"All you have to do is hold your head up and you'll go far," he said.
