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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWhenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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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 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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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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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 reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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