I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe 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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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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.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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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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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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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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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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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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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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