It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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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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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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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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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
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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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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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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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