"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." ― Theodore Roosevelt Topic(s): Work More From Theodore Roosevelt "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young." "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause." "If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name." More In Work "I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard."― Paula Deen "Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do."― Barack Obama "I’m a peaceful person once work ethic is established."― Shirley MacLaine