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Quotes from Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School — Theodore Roosevelt

1858–1919 United States

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Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.

Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

A sound body is good; a sound mind is better; but a strong and clean character is better than either.

Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

The life that is worth living, and the only life that is worth living, is the life of effort, the life of effort to attain what is worth striving for.

Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

Success does not lie entirely in the hands of any one of us.

Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.