The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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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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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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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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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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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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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 best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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