A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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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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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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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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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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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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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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