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There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
– Theodore Roosevelt

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  3. Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned – yet whose enormous fortune…has already brought him acquittal! – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  4. I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep – Charles Maurice de TalleyrandPrigord
  5. Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. – Theodore Roosevelt
  6. The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you. – AS King
  7. Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering – remembering and not using your right to hit back – Archbishop Desmont Tutu
  8. Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
  9. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’. – Theodore Roosevelt
  10. To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. – Theodore Roosevelt
  11. I am a part of everything that I have read. – Theodore Roosevelt
  12. When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt
  13. No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. – Theodore Roosevelt
  14. I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed. – Theodore Roosevelt
  15. Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books. – Theodore Roosevelt
  16. No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. – Theodore Roosevelt
  17. The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. – Theodore Roosevelt
  18. Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt. – Theodore Roosevelt
  19. We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do. – Theodore Roosevelt
  20. Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt
  21. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt
  22. I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action. – Theodore Roosevelt
  23. Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. – Theodore Roosevelt
  24. That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it. – Theodore Roosevelt
  25. Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. – Theodore Roosevelt
  26. A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. – Theodore Roosevelt
  27. A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. – Theodore Roosevelt
  28. …the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former. – Theodore Roosevelt
  29. You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch. – Theodore Roosevelt
  30. No man is above the law, and no man is below it. – Theodore Roosevelt
  31. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
  32. The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. – Theodore Roosevelt
  33. It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. – Theodore Roosevelt
  34. Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground – Theodore Roosevelt
  35. In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance – Thomas Jefferson
  36. To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive. – Abraham Verghese
  37. I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them. – Mark Lawrence
  38. Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves. – Stacia Pelletier
  39. …before you, life was desolate – the past hardly worth remembering – and now, each moment a keepsake I can’t throw away … – John Geddes
  40. What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. – Mary GrandPr

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