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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

"Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.""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.""At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.""I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!""In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.""There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.""Believe you can and you're halfway there.""Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.""When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.""The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.""It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; w""Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.""The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.""Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.""Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.""The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.""Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.""All the resources we need are in the mind.""The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.""We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."