I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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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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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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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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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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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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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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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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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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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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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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