Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThere is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
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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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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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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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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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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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No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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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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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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