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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
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: dignity, manners, politeness, respect
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: conservation, environment
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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
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: comparing, envy, happiness, unhappiness
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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
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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
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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
    “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.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: initiative, opportunity, preparedness
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: character, moral-courage
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: charity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: evil, justice, means-justifying-the-ends, society
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: generosity, goals, practicality
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: money, wealth
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Nothing worth having comes easy.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “90% of the work in this country is done
    by people who don't feel good".”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: humor
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: ecology, parks
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “All the resources we need are in the mind. ”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.”
    ― Teddy Roosevelt
    tags: complaining, problem, solution
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything.”
    ― Teddy Roosevelt
    tags: phillip-riback
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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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
    “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
    “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
    “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
    764 likes



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