People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNothing worth having comes easy.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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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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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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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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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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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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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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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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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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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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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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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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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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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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