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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
AKA: | Theodore Roosevelt |
Birthday: | October 27, 1858 |
Death: | January 6, 1919 |
Educated At: | Harvard University, Columbia University, Harvard College |
Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
Political Parties: | Republican Party |
Nationality: | United States Of America |
Occupations: | Boxer, Essayist, Explorer, Rancher, Autobiographer |
Religion: | Anglicanism, Continental Reformed Church |
Spouse: | Edith Roosevelt, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt |
Total quotes: 74
Theodore Roosevelt
BirthnameAKA: Theodore Roosevelt
Birthday: October 27, 1858
Death: January 6, 1919
Educated At: Harvard University, Columbia University, Harvard College
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Political Parties: Republican Party
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: Boxer, Essayist, Explorer, Rancher, Autobiographer
Religion: Anglicanism, Continental Reformed Church
Spouse: Edith Roosevelt, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
Total quotes: 74
“You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak. That is not so. Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.”
Tagged:
Inefficiency, Wickedness
“It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.”
Tagged:
Crises
“An Englishman does his usual hobby of fox-hunting, unflinching as war approaches his homeland. Is it virtuous that he should carry on, unaffected? An example of stern peace of mind? No, of course not. He's a coward and an escapist, who doesn't understand that the purpose of fox-hunting is only to keep you strong and manly in preparation for more important tasks. Any hard physical work, and in fact all work, serves to steel our minds for harder things later on—'to do work that counts when the time arises.'
When a man so far confuses ends and means as to think that fox-hunting, or polo, or foot-ball, or whatever else the sport may be, is to be itself taken as the end, instead of as the mere means of preparation to do work that counts when the time arises, when the occasion calls—why, that man had better abandon sport altogether.”
When a man so far confuses ends and means as to think that fox-hunting, or polo, or foot-ball, or whatever else the sport may be, is to be itself taken as the end, instead of as the mere means of preparation to do work that counts when the time arises, when the occasion calls—why, that man had better abandon sport altogether.”
Tagged:
Life
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