Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWe 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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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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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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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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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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