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 ROOSEVELTEach time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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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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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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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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 am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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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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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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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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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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