I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do.
17+ Best Theodore Roosevelt Quotes & Wishes
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.