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Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." The 26th President of the United States of America had quite the reputation. Born with asthma and a sickly child in his youth, Theo

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“The old pioneer days are gone, with their roughness and their hardship, their incredible toil and their wild half-savage romance. But the need for pioneer virtues remains the same as ever... We must insist upon courage and resolution upon hardihood, tenacity, and futility in resource, go we must ins…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Obstacles

“Shame to us if we blink the evils. They are there. Shame to us if we fear to face the problem. It is there and to say that it is not there will not prove its absence. Face the problem, realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit not merely of determination to solve it, but of hearty desire…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Will

“Abraham Lincoln, the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War, was the true representative of this people not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men; a man who embodied the qualities of his fellow men, but who embodied them to the highest and…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Will

“Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles but how to overcome them.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Greatness

“You had to have the man who after defeat would come up and try again and if he was defeated again come up and try again until he rested from defeat the splendid ultimate triumph.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Failure