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Struggling with Success? Theodore Roosevelt spent years mastering this exact challenge. This collection captures their most practical insights on Success, each quote backed by source context so you can trace the thinking. Whether you need immediate guidance or long-term frameworks, Theodore Roosevelt's approach cuts through the noise and gives you actionable wisdom. Use this archive whenever you're making decisions about Success and need clarity from someone who's been there.
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
"The success of the man of great wealth is often at the expense of his own character."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"It is a good thing to have a sound body, and a better thing to have a sound mind; but better than either is character."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles."
"The successful man, whether in business or politics, who has risen by crooked methods... is a source of moral contagion."
"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much."
"Success... is the result of hard work and the ability to seize the opportunity."
"There is no more important person in the community than the man who works."
"The way to help the man who works is to help the man who provides the work."
"I wish to see the man of great means use his means for the benefit of the public."
"Great fortunes are usually the result of great ability, but they are also the result of the legal and social conditions of the community."
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