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Things Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
- There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as…
- Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything…
- The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the…
- There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And…
- To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective.…
- There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as…
- Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.
- The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done…
- The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task…
- The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness…
- ...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful…
- It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a…
- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who…
- 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.
- It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished…
- For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance…
- I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State,…
- I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
- Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle