When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
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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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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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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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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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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 most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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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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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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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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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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