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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Topic: Cause
Source: None
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.
Topic: Citizenship
Source: None
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Topic: Conservation
Source: None
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The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking
the muck.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
Topic: Corruption
Source: address at the corner-stone laying of the Office Building of House of Representatives
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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 grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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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 grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Topic: Defeat
Source: None
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Effort
Source: None
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Topic: Effort
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Effort
Source: None
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
Topic: Equality
Source: None
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If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
Topic: Error
Source: None
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Topic: Failure
Source: None
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It is better to be faithful than famous.
Topic: Faithfulness
Source: None
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It is better to be faithful than famous.
Topic: Fidelity
Source: None
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Topic: Fight
Source: None
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Topic: Government
Source: None
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Topic: Honor
Source: None
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Topic: Labor
Source: None
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No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Topic: Law
Source: None
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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
Topic: Minority
Source: None
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: None
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He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Topic: Progress
Source: None
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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
Topic: Quality
Source: None
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Far better is it 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 grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Topic: Risk
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Self-sacrifice
Source: None
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In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
Topic: Sports:Football
Source: None
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It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have
learned to think nationally.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: Builders of the State
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I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
Topic: Strength
Source: on landing from Cuba with his Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Topic: Strength
Source: None
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I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.
Topic: Strength
Source: None
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Topic: Success
Source: None
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My hat is in the ring.
Topic: Zeal
Source: said in Cleveland, when on his way to Columbus, Ohio
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