Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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