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Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
- I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
- I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
- 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.
- It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
- It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
- It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
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