It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTCharacter, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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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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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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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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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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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 person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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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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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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