"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." ― Theodore Roosevelt Topic(s): Men More From Theodore Roosevelt "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young." "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." "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." More In Men "When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."― George Santayana "Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men."― Henry David Thoreau "Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him."― Voltaire