It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTPatriotism means to stand by the country.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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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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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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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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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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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.
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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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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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 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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