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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe worst of all fears is the fear of living.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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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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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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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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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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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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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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