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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.


Theodore Roethke

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
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DEYTH BANGER Have you noticed that you feel better around some people than others? You smile more in their presen...
STEVE GOODIER If you believed yourself to be a writer of eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill-not ...
WILLIAM H. GASS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
GEORGE W. BUSH Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
ANONYMOUS Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a footprint.
GUNDO MULAUDZI We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. And still it was gone. Seeing it again could not be living it again. You can always rediscover an ol...
BERYL MARKHAM For every mountain there is a miracle.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the hi...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
JOHN WANAMAKER The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
CONFUCIUS It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, to...
RUTH WESTHEIMER Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shal...
BIBLE Although we may be miles apart there is no division of the heart
ANGELA PORISKY Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog w...
RASHEED OGUNLARU If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge...
ZHANG ZHIDONG We're not exactly sure why, but one possibility is although people are discouraged by the performanc...
CHARLES TENNES Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
MARC BEKOFF I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing...
JOHN KEEGAN Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m...
KHALIL GIBRAN A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbl...
ANON. Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles...
UNKNOWN One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, a...
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TERRY HALL Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and...
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CELESTINE L. GRAY And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
LAURA PREPON Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
WERNER HERZOG While there may be a number of similarities to what the Geneva Convention describes, that's not a ca...
VINCENT BROOKS What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It i...
AGNES M. PHARO What I've seen is not encouraging. It seems like there are all sorts of problems over there.
COTTON HOWELL The Valley has helped schools host the tournament at every level, including the Final Four in St. Lo...
DAVE BLANK There is a strong cold front dropping in. And Red Mountain Pass and Ouray may see as much as 4 to 8 ...
JEFF COLTON To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that ...
KAREN HORNEY The path of nonviolence is the path of respect. It is respect towards every being. It is the path of...
AMIT RAY Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not ...
RICHARD WHATELY It may be a winding path; it may be longer, though its mysteries make it much more interesting.
RICKBISCHOFF The Protestants taught their followers that faith is needed for hard work because every hardship on ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The overall direction of the China - U.S. relationship is a positive one, although from time to time...
QIAN QICHEN If you are a deer, they are aggressive, but we are something that they don't want or need. But even ...
TROY SWAUGER Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and r...
JOHN PAUL STEVENS Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of un...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Although the costs of not delegating may be invisible, the price that you pay is real.
FRANK SONNENBERG Although Milosevic and Saddam may have similar personalities, and both don't recognize courts which ...
BRANISLAV TAPUSKOVIC I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species...
NANCY FARMER Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead ...
GITA BELLIN It is known that the brain shrinks over the course of a person's life, although the exact trajectory...
HELEN CHRISTENSEN Life is full of choices. Every breath, every minute, every path you take is a choice. To be or not b...
CJ HECK Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his nat...
BAYARD RUSKIN Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's ...
DAN FARMER While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is t...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clea...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Contentment with little or nothing to eat although one may have a great appetite; to awaken instantl...
CHANAKYA The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persi...
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THEODORE ROETHKE All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shin...
THEODORE ROETHKE In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
THEODORE ROETHKE What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
THEODORE ROETHKE Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
THEODORE ROETHKE A mind too active is no mind at all.
THEODORE ROETHKE God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
THEODORE ROETHKE I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE The soul has many motions, body one.
THEODORE ROETHKE A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
THEODORE ROETHKE Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
THEODORE ROETHKE What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
THEODORE ROETHKE Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
THEODORE ROETHKE I learn by going where I have to go.
THEODORE ROETHKE Time marks us while we are marking time.
THEODORE ROETHKE What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
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THEODORE ROETHKE God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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THEODORE ROETHKE The soul has many motions, body one.
THEODORE ROETHKE A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
THEODORE ROETHKE Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
THEODORE ROETHKE What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
THEODORE ROETHKE Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
THEODORE ROETHKE I learn by going where I have to go.
THEODORE ROETHKE Time marks us while we are marking time.
THEODORE ROETHKE What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
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THEODORE ROETHKE The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I...
THEODORE ROETHKE What's freedom for? To know eternity.
THEODORE ROETHKE But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dea...
THEODORE ROETHKE Loved heart, what can I say?
When I was a lark, I sang;
When I was a worm, I devoured.
THEODORE ROETHKE The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing ...
THEODORE ROETHKE I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
THEODORE ROETHKE So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place ...
THEODORE ROETHKE All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure
THEODORE ROETHKE By daily dying I have come to be.
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THEODORE ROETHKE Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
THEODORE ROETHKE I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where...
THEODORE ROETHKE What shakes the eye but the invisible? Running from God's the longest race of all
THEODORE ROETHKE And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on
THEODORE ROETHKE All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine...
THEODORE ROETHKE from I Knew a Woman

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small...
THEODORE ROETHKE I trust all joy
THEODORE ROETHKE I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn ...
THEODORE ROETHKE Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Ke...
THEODORE ROETHKE How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
THEODORE ROETHKE Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
THEODORE ROETHKE The Mistake

He left his pants upon a chair:
She was a widow, so she said:
But h...
THEODORE ROETHKE No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice mu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certai...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Voting is a civic sacrament.
THEODORE HESBURGH If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and th...
THEODORE ZELDIN The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obs...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
THEODORE GERICAULT I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, wa...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monument...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was eith...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he sho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man has a right to one country. He has a right to love and serve that country and to feel that...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the worl...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom thi...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with peop...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
THEODORE HESBURGH A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate c...
THEODORE HESBURGH The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trum...
THEODORE HESBURGH People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the...
THEODORE BIKEL The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?”
“It's purely a defensive device. We s...
THEODORE STURGEON Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE RUBIN The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
THEODORE PARKER I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not gui...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loude...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politics is the science of urgencies.
THEODORE PARKER Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE WHITE The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful ...
THEODORE DALRYMPLE If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this pla...
THEODORE WHITE The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been...
THEODORE WHITE In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on ...
THEODORE FORSTMANN The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that hav...
THEODORE RUBIN The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I ha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.
THEODORE TRONCHIN The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds a...
THEODORE MUNGERS All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
THEODORE HESBURGH A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE HESBURGH The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
THEODORE LEAVITT We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chanc...
THEODORE RUBIN Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty ...
THEODORE ZELDIN Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
THEODORE RUBIN I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters get...
THEODORE WHITE It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is better to be faithful than famous.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE HESBURGH Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an Am...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc...
THEODORE PARKER The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all priz...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER Ninety percent of everything is crap.
THEODORE STURGEON Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and merc...
THEODORE WHITE Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif...
THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT