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"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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." 4.933333333333334 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well." 4.923076923076923 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." 4.923076923076923 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another." 4.909090909090909 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them." 4.875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 knew neither victory nor defeat." 4.754545454545455 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Speak softly and carry a big stick." 4.69620253164557 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage." 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance." 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A stream cannot rise larger than its source." 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished." 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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