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“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an easy life. I know that your life is hard; I know that your work is hard; and hardest of all for those of you who have the highest trained consciences, and who therefore feel always how much you ought to do. I know your work is hard, and that is why I congratulate you with all my heart. 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.”
― American Ideals: And Other Essays, Social and Political
― American Ideals: And Other Essays, Social and Political
“It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.”
― Letters to His Children
― Letters to His Children
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
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“We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”
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“at the outset almost every man is frightened when he goes into action, but that the course to follow is for the man to keep such a grip on himself that he can act just as if he was not frightened. After this is kept up long enough it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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