Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTPeople 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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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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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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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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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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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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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!
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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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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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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