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Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.
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127
Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
128
It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.
129
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.
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A man must so train his habits as to rely upon his own powers and depend upon his own courage in moments of emergency.
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Courage may be displayed in everyday life as well as in historic fields of action.
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Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable.
133
Energy of temperament, with a moderate degree of wisdom, will carry a man further than any amount of intellect without it.
134
Difficulties may intimidate the weak, but they act only as a wholesome stimulus to men of resolution and valour.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.
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In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful
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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.
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The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.
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The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.
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Self-respect, originating in self-love, instigates the first step of improvement.
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Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.
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Providence treats us like a generous father, and brings us up to labors, toils, and dangers; whereas the indulgence of a fond mother makes us weak and spiritless.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming
Theodore Rooseveltverified·Citizenship in a Republic, in African and European Addresses·April 23, 1910
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There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·Citizenship in a Republic, in African and European Addresses·April 23, 1910
148
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.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·The Strenuous Life, an address before the Hamilton Club, Chicago·April 10, 1899
149
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·The Strenuous Life, an address before the Hamilton Club, Chicago·April 10, 1899
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By flight alone we cannot overcome, but by endurance and true humility we are made stronger than all our enemies.