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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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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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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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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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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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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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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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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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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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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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