"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
― Theodore Roosevelt
Topic(s): Work
More From Theodore Roosevelt
- "Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."
- "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
- "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
More In Work
- "The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them."― Gabriel Heatter
- "I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."― Charles Schwab
- "It’s not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it’s real. If it’s contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can’t filter out the real and unreal."― Fred Durst