It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTBlack care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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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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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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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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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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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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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 are the heirs of the ages.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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