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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
"If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness."
"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home."
"A stream cannot rise larger than its source."
"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country."
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young."
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
"With self-discipline, almost anything is possible."
"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."
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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