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)
• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Labor Day address, Syracuse, New York (1903)
• 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)

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• The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena.Tim Cook
• Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better.Melinda French Gates
• We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things.Herb Kelleher
• Don't worry, be crappy.Guy Kawasaki
• You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.Maya Angelou
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.Oscar Wilde

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