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The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a president, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
- Theodore Roosevelt
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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 difficult lives and led them well.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
- Thomas a Kempis
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
- Jesse Jackson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.
- Geeta Phogat