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... American Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt - Page 201by Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1903 - 172 pages
...the utmost happiness from it may not twine about it roses of fancy and hide the most of its thorns. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...easy peace, but to the man who does not shirk from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid, ultimate triumph. — Theodore... | |
| Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character,, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease...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... | |
| 1900 - 640 pages
...of toil and effort, of labor and strife—that is the only life that counts. " I wish," he says,"to preach that highest form of success which comes, not...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... | |
| 1903 - 828 pages
...preaching in season and out, by word and by deed, the gospel of earnest effort : "I wish to preach the highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil. . .... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 244 pages
...present, and nothing helps it more than the consciousness of achievement in the past. THE STRENUOUS LIFE I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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... | |
| Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 544 pages
...his speech to the Hamilton Club, in Chicago, in 1899. This was the sentence in which it occurred : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from a H en H < g u ••< X CO 5 £ gl < H « > a CO I p H danger, from hardships, or from... | |
| Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 540 pages
..." it is hard to fail, but worse never to have tried to succeed." A battle for him who strives for " that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to him who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the... | |
| Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 488 pages
...his speech to the Hamilton Club, in Chicago, in 1899. This was the sentence in which it occurred : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the ilife of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes,... | |
| Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 528 pages
..." it is hard to fail, but worse never to have tried to succeed." A battle for him who strives for " that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to him who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the... | |
| 1906 - 474 pages
...delivered by him in Chicago, April 10, 1899, before the Hamilton Club, he used the following sentences : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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... | |
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