In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNo 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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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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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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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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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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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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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 is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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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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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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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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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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