Greg Smith

“It is so much easier to be a harmless dove than a wise serpent.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“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 to take advantage of them.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“I would try not to think of the future at all, but would proceed on the assumption that each office I held would be the last I ever should hold, and that I would confine myself to trying to do my work as well as possible while I held that office.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“But much the commoner type of success in every walk of life and in every species of effort is that which comes to the man who differs from his fellows not by the kind of quality which he possesses but by the degree of development which he has given that quality. This kind of success is open to a large number of persons, if only they seriously determine to achieve it. It is the kind of success which is open to the average man of sound body and fair mind, who has no remarkable mental or physical attributes, but who gets just as much as possible in the way of work out of the aptitudes that he does possess.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography