1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt


  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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    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.

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    The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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    The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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    There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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    Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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