Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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