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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNo ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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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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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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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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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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