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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThere is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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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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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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