"I think there is only one quality..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
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“The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.”
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
“While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.”
More on Character
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
“More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.”
“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole”
More on Intellect
“The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.”
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
“In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.”