Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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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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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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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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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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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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