If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTCharacter, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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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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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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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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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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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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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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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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