 We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.  Public Papers of Theodore Roosevelt, Governor, 1899[-1900] - Page 292by New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...and His Career, p. 72 (1904). Hubbard states that this was a favorite saying of Rockefeller's. 589 It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, governor of New York, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois, April... | |
 | Robin W. Winks - 1993 - 596 pages
...American mood as well. In war alone, said Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), could individuals "acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." We must take these quotations with a sense of the parodox that is inherent in humankind. Bagehot's... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 pages
...embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the...succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which... | |
 | Ronald William Dworkin - 1996 - 276 pages
...embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.26 Roosevelt made these remarks in support of virtues such as helpfulness and good neighborliness,... | |
 | Jack W. Snook, Jeffrey D. Johnson - 1997 - 200 pages
...Consolidate Administration LXI 1 8 Agreement for Joint Services LXV List of Contacts LXIX Introduction "It is hard to fail. But it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we <]et nothing save by effort." -Theodore Roosevelt Over ten years ago, it became apparent that three... | |
 | Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse - 2003 - 440 pages
...do not admire the man of timid peace" but rather "the man who embodies victorious effort," one "who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" (13). Roosevelt's nation is not comprised of "weaklings" (18) like Sant Bowden, who was unable to enlist... | |
 | Jonathan M. Hansen - 2010 - 278 pages
...62-3). Pacifists were blind to the blood on their own hands; the public had lost its appetite for work. "Freedom from effort in the present merely means that...there has been stored up effort in the past. A man could be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 244 pages
...what I was trying to preach, instead of the heading I actually did use. Autobiography, 1913 Success It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. "The Strenuous Life," address before the Hamilton Club at Chicago, Illinois, April 10, 1899 There are... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - 2003 - 554 pages
...sr^ffufrffuufljsir fESUSU 3092. He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. 3093. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried. 3094. Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ..._ si&y GUi?Sa)ffu5>eu 3095. Taking... | |
 | William Safire - 2004 - 1168 pages
...neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stem strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. . . . In the last analysis a healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean,... | |
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