I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTEach time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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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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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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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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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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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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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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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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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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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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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 worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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