I 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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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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 man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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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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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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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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We are the heirs of the ages.
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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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