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 ROOSEVELTIf you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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 worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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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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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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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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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 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.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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