About Theodore Roosevelt

26th U.S. President, conservationist, soldier and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (1858-1919)

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• 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 better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.Citizenship in a Republic, speech at the Sorbonne (1910)
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.The Strenuous Life (1899)
• Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904)
• I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.Address in Des Moines, Iowa (1910)
• It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.Speech in Berkeley, California (1911)

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• It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.Golda Meir
• Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Albert Einstein
• Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.Albert Einstein
• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.Albert Einstein
• Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla

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