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Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt

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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt

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If there is not the war, you dont get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you dont get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt
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Love and desire are the spirits wings to great deeds. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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