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It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.


Theodore Roosevelt

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AVIJEET DAS If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
KAMAL KHANZADA Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. ...
JONATHAN SACCONE-JOLY Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'N...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO No matter how little things are in life, you should always try to do the best you can, because you n...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no ...
OG MANDINO Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
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MICHAEL BARRETT No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may dis...
ORRIN HATCH I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
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MARY OLIVER To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
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MADDY MALHOTRA What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
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MARCUS MAYO Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
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RANSOM RIGGS They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
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1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL What you do will project you
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METTE IVIE HARRISON When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profit...
CHARLES A. STODDARD Nothing lasts forever, and this is exactly why you need to learn to detach from things, places and p...
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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 When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and f...
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