Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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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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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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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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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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We are the heirs of the ages.
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