"We do not admire the man of..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
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“I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”
“I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.”
“After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.”
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“When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.”
“If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.”
“It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.”
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“There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.”
“Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.”
“If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.”