It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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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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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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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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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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