 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who...great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who...great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who...great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who...great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who...these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who...great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 512 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.8 Among the subjects ably treated are "Expansion and Peace," "Civic Helpfulness, » "Character... | |
 | Helen Mathers - 1902 - 344 pages
...comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from hardships, or from bitter toil ; and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumphs.' " " But I thought," I murmured, " that we were not to have any triumphs — only to labour... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who...great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, ^hd from his... | |
 | 1900 - 640 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who...out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." Is that the highest form of success ? And when all is over, does the ultimate triumph rest with the... | |
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... 
