The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTBelieve you can and you’re halfway there.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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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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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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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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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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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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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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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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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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