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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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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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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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