Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Failure Quotes

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.

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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

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A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. 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.

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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

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A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

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We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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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.

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We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

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The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

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To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

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The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

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Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

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In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

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Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

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The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.

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Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

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