Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth27 October 1858
CountryUnited States of America
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life
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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.
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Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.
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The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.
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The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
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It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.