We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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About Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party and the 25th vice president, he assumed the presidency after President William McKinley was assassinated. Roosevelt was the youngest person to...

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

—Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

—Theodore Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

—Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist.

—Robert Schumann

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

—George Eliot

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

—C. S. Lewis, after the death of his wife

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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

—Bertrand Russell

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