Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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 reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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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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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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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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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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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.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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