Thread by @obyezeks

Work. Effort. Sweat.
Hard Work.
Smart Work.
Productive Work.
These must return to the mainstream of our public conversations.
Hard work does not kill a person.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife....
~~President Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
~~President Theodore Roosevelt

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
~~ Theodore Roosevelt

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
~~President Theodore Roosevelt

Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and (wo)manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods.
President Theodore Roosevelt

Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only through strife, through hard & dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness.
PTR

Strive (wo)manfully for righteousness, and strive so as to make your efforts for good count.

President Theodore Roosevelt

We are in honor bound to put into practice what we preach; to remember that we are not to be excused if we do not.
~~ President Theodore Roosevelt

In the last resort no material prosperity, no business acumen, no intellectual development of any kind, can atone in the life of a nation for the lack of the fundamental qualities of courage, honesty, and common sense.

~~ President Theodore Roosevelt

A (wo)man is worthless unless (s)he has in (her) him a lofty devotion to an ideal, and (s)he is worthless also unless (s)he strives to realize this ideal by practical methods.

President Theodore Roosevelt

S(He)must promise, both to (herself) himself and to others, only what (s)he can perform; but what really can be performed (s)he must promise, and such promise (s)he must at all hazards make good.

~~President Theodore Roosevelt