Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTFor those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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It 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.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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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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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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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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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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