Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 11

• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

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  Lonely, Wilderness, Greater

  Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.204, Stackpole Books

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• There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

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  Adventure, Life Is, Moments

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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• We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

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  Adversity, Choices, Rust

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.42, Chartwell

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• From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Reading, Men

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• I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

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  Heart, Thinking, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

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  Home, Men, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.77, Cornell University Press

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• The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Giving, Way

  Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

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• If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

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  Life, Peace, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dignity, Politeness, Subservience

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• Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

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  Men, Soul, Mastery

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.22, Taylor Trade Publications

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• We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lines, Wealth, Draws

  Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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• There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

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  Suffering, Politics, Superstitions

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.247, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Life, Men, Temporary Defeat

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• There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

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  Different, Afraid Of Life, Unfamiliar

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.303, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Shirk, Duty, Inaugural

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• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Action, Poor, Substitutes

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

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  Character, Men, Careers

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.139, Cornell University Press

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• There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

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  Book, Men, Practice

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Autumn, Winter

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• The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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  Team, Leader, Mind

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• There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

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  Believe, Reality, Demand

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