 It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of...  The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous lifeby Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 19 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stephen Francis Weston - 1914 - 208 pages
...THEORY OF WAR Ex-President Roosevelt has made this astounding statement, " By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." These words, coming from the lips of a nation's idol, have fallen like a bomb shell in the camp of... | |
 | Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1914 - 264 pages
...Matt. 20 -. 26-27. Sing: "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," from Hanson's Gems of Song. 27 PERSEVERANCE It ie hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.—Theodore Roosevelt ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER IT WAS the perseverance of the spider that... | |
 | Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 412 pages
...your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practise such a doctrine. You work yourselves, and you bring...fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1915 - 384 pages
...Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead ; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. It Is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt. Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For this brave... | |
 | Daniel Roy Freeman - 1915 - 154 pages
...spinning battlefields from the soul as the spider spins web from her body, can human beings acquire "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." Therefore is war not particularly to be shunned. It is not harmful but helpful to mankind. By no other... | |
 | 1904 - 732 pages
...non-remunerative work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration, in historical research—work of the type we most need in this country, the successful...fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present, merely means that there... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1916 - 410 pages
...qualities " ; and, on the other hand, applauds war on the ground that " by war alone can (men) acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." m What, now, is to be said in answer to this plea on behalf of war? Can these considerations, which... | |
 | Minos Devine - 1916 - 256 pages
...we despise a man, who submits to insult (says ex-President Roosevelt).1 By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. The warlike nations inherit the earth." Do the warlike nations inherit the earth ? Mr. Roosevelt said... | |
 | 1916 - 554 pages
...make war impossible. Is there a woman that believes with Roosevelt that "by war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" or that "we must play a great part in the world and especially perform those deeds of blood, of valor,... | |
 | Carleton B. Case - 1918 - 174 pages
...nation. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt...fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there... | |
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