Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore RooseveltMacmillan, 1920 - 365 pages |
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... things up by not spending it . As he expressed it , I had to keep the fraction constant , and if I was not able to increase the numerator , then I must reduce the denominator . In other words , if I went into a scientific 10 career , I ...
... things up by not spending it . As he expressed it , I had to keep the fraction constant , and if I was not able to increase the numerator , then I must reduce the denominator . In other words , if I went into a scientific 10 career , I ...
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... things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few . Now I do not mean that this training was by any means all bad . On the contrary , 30 the insistence upon individual responsibility ...
... things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few . Now I do not mean that this training was by any means all bad . On the contrary , 30 the insistence upon individual responsibility ...
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... things or small things which comes to the man who has in him the natural power to do what no one else can do , and what no 25 amount of training , no perseverance or will power , will enable any ordinary man to do . This success , of ...
... things or small things which comes to the man who has in him the natural power to do what no one else can do , and what no 25 amount of training , no perseverance or will power , will enable any ordinary man to do . This success , of ...
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... things of which I was afraid at first , ranging from grizzly bears to " mean " horses and gun - fighters ; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid . Most men can have the same experience if 30 they choose ...
... things of which I was afraid at first , ranging from grizzly bears to " mean " horses and gun - fighters ; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid . Most men can have the same experience if 30 they choose ...
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... thing to remember that 5 the man who does not enjoy this advantage can never- theless stand beside the man who does , and can do his duty with the like efficiency , if he chooses to . Of course he must not let his desire take the form ...
... thing to remember that 5 the man who does not enjoy this advantage can never- theless stand beside the man who does , and can do his duty with the like efficiency , if he chooses to . Of course he must not let his desire take the form ...
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Page 220 - ... spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly...
Page 220 - ... and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.— Theodore Roosevelt.
Page 234 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all, constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 167 - 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.
Page 166 - 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 does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 180 - The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them, to the crown of worthy endeavor.
Page 168 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 178 - An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does no good, but very great harm. The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed. Now, it is easy to twist out of shape what I have just said, easy to affect to misunderstand it, and, if it is slurred over in repetition, not difficult really to misunderstand it.
Page 354 - Interpreter takes them apart again and has them first into a room, where was a man that could look no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand. There stood also one, over his head, with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered...
Page 177 - Pilgrim's Progress" you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand ; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.