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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes. Page 2 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Theodore Roosevelt The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. Theodore Roosevelt Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. Theodore Roosevelt With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. Theodore Roosevelt There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this. Theodore Roosevelt The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. Theodore Roosevelt A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt |