When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTKnowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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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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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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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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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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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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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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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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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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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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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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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 ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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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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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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