More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
  2. I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
  3. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
  4. I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization; but I believe that they should be so supervised a…
  5. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
  6. I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
  7. For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achi…
  8. 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 sc…

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