Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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 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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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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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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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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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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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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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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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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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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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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 life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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