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
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- Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
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- The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion. – Theodore Roosevelt
- 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
- 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
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- Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. – Theodore Roosevelt
- That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it. – Theodore Roosevelt
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- A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. – Theodore Roosevelt
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- You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch. – Theodore Roosevelt
- No man is above the law, and no man is below it. – Theodore Roosevelt
- The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. – Theodore Roosevelt
- It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. – Theodore Roosevelt
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- Tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I’ll tell you who you really are. – Brunonia Barry
- When you are busy doing something for God, God will also be busy doing something for you. – Patience Johnson
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- Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave? – Marquita BurkeDeJesus
- If I am too busy to read The Bible … am I too busy? – Rip
- Once we become tethered to the network, we really don’t need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY. – Sherry Turkle
- It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau