Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI am a part of everything that I have read.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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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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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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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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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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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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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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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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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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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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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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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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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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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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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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