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#1

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: busy-learning, competence, job-doing, productivity

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#2

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: diplomacy, hurt, preparedness, presidential

709 likes

#3

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom

779 likes

#4

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity

770 likes

#5

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life

2611 likes

#6

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

10565 likes

#7

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion

1344 likes

#8

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

1906 likes

#9

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers

2760 likes

#10

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

4166 likes

#11

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

4215 likes

#12

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

5169 likes

#13

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

5397 likes

#14

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

tags: war

2253 likes

#15

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

1605 likes

#16

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

1074 likes

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