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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: decisiveness, inaction, just-do-it, timidity, wisdom
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, adversity, easy, effort, envy, lives
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bullying, moral-courage
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: civic-duty, dissent, patriotism, truth-telling
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: personal-responsibility, self-empowerment
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: action, choices, decision, decisiveness, inaction, right-and-wrong
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: conservation, environment, morals, nationalism, patriotism, politics, values
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
    ― Teddy Roosevelt
    tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
    tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: empathy, wisdom
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: americanism, duty, nationalism
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “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.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: busy-learning, competence, job-doing, productivity
    404 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: civic-duty, democracy, elections, voters
    364 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, fame, struggle
    389 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “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.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: big-business, business-regulation, corruption, education
    367 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: play, work
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, labor, prize, work
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “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 Roosevelt
    tags: leadership, management
    283 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, preparedness, strategy
    261 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: government, government-corruption, politics, senate
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, intimidation
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: dignity, manners, politeness, respect
    224 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: fitness, joviality
    200 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diversity, equality
    157 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. 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.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: assertiveness, bully, coward, oppression, timidity
    160 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: life, self-actualization, self-determination, self-fulfillment
    148 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, ambition, brave, caring, devotion, victory
    141 likes



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