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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.


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THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.....
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Believe you can and you're halfway there.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves wh...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am a part of everything that I have read.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and sel...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Believe you can and you're halfway there.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT With self-discipline most anything is possible.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies o...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don'...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Put out the light.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can with what you have where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT