35. Theodore Roosevelt

Diving into the life, lessons, and greatness of Theodore Roosevelt  from Edmund Morris' book, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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1:10 - The Power of Reading

Yet from reading of the people I admired...I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and could hold their own in the world, and I had a great desire to be like one.”

2:40 -  Make Your Body

Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one’s body, but I know you will do it.

8:10 - Live With Cancer

Doctor. I’m going to do all the things you tell me not to do. If I’ve got to live the sort of life you have described, I don’t care how short it is.”

10:20 - Love and Death

There is nothing left for me except to try to live so as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me.

12:30 - Father's Motto

“Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.”

18:40 - On dissapointment

I have been fairly defeated, but to tell the truth I am not disappointed at the result.

23:30 - Calling > Comfort

There are higher things in this life than the soft and easy enjoyment of material comfort

25:15 - One Final Note

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.”

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