Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIn this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
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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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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the 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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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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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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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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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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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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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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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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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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