I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI 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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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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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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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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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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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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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.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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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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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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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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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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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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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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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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