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- “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
– His famous foreign policy philosophy.
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– One of his most quoted lines, full of practical wisdom.
- “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
- “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those timid souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.”
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
- “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
- “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.”
- “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
- “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
- “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
