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Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Work, Successful
Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “America and the World War”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Difficult Times, Easy

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Play Hard, Advice
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom, Courage, Work
Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life”

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Men, Doe
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day
Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Work, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Men, Ballet
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.