Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 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 not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get alnog with people.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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