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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
LIFE SAYS, "MAKE GOOD OR MAKE ROOM, BUT DON’T MAKE EXCUSES."
In today’s management parlance, "Lead , follow, or get out of the way." When you are actively working toward a goal, there are no failures; there are only degrees of success. Choose to be a leader. Take the initiative. When you are faced with a problem or a difficult decision, don’t waste endless hours agonizing over the solution. If you analyze the situation objectively, you will always find an answer. Don’t focus on the problem; focus on the solution. Then get into action. As W. Clement Stone has often said, "The emotions are not always subject to reason, but they are always subject to action!"
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Every man who parrots the cry of 'stand by the President' without adding the proviso 'so far as he serves the Republic' takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: Works, vol. 21, pp. 316, 321Saved by bluesfreak in government patriotism president 4 weeks ago[save this] [permalink]Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country...
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: UnknownSaved by bluesfreak in patriotism president politician 4 weeks ago[save this] [permalink]
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant, who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.aspSaved by bluesfreak in patriotism american immigration 4 weeks ago[save this] [permalink]Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/troosevelt_film/trfpcp...Saved by bluesfreak in conspiracy government shadowgovernment statesman 4 weeks ago[save this] [permalink]Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
"Change" is not a destination ... just as "hope" is not a strategy.
Failure at some point in everyone's life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. ... When I got knocked down by guys bigger than me, (my mom) sent me back out and demanded that I bloody their nose so I could walk down that street the next day.