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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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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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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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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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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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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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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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