It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIn life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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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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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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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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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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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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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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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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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 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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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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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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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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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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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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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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