 | Edward Howe Cotton - 1923 - 362 pages
...Vigor of Life," as better describing what he meant. With what grand rhythm and high aim it begins! "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 the highest form of... | |
 | Roy Floyd Dibble - 1925 - 404 pages
... STRENUOUS AMERICANS BRIGHAM YOUNG STRENUOUS AMERICANS RF DIBBLE ". . . who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American In the American character. . . ." Theodore House volt: The Strtnuout Lift. LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. Broadway House:... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman - 1926 - 434 pages
...American people to become exclusively " a white-collar" people. . . . 71. THE STRENUOUS LIFE 1 ... 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... | |
 | Frederic Jennings Haskin - 1926 - 512 pages
...occupied by Michael Collins and bears the paragraph which might be called the creed of strenuous life. "I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life, of toil and of effort, and of labor, and strive to preach the highest form of success... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1910 - 156 pages
...CHAPTER X. BUSINESS MENTALITY. SAID Friedricli Nietzsche, in a manner that well might arouse the dead, " 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 the highest form of... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 pages
...inhabited; a man with energy, but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished. — JOHN STERLING. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. — THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Your brain is the nearest gold mine. Keep digging. —... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pages
...strenuous life, thus repeating the admonition of ages given in both Bible and profane history. He said: "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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1978 - 114 pages
...his attention to the duties of an individual citizen. His remarks opened with the following lines : In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1984 - 660 pages
...will be not just equal to the challenge posed, but true to the credo of Theodore Roosevelt who said, "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." Clearly being Secretary of the Interior is no life of ease. The stewardship of... | |
 | Jacob Orleans - 1987 - 292 pages
...give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The price of wisdom is above rubies. History is bunk. The miserable have no other... | |
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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 who... 
