"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

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Source : Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Theodore Roosevelt

#Wisdom Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Pants Quotes

“I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heartâ€”one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.”
“The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination - we give a form of pulsating art to life itself; we give it to our characters and we give it to our audiences. Nothing, absolutely nothing remains for us save the pleasure of having given pleasure. And yet it is only by this miraculous process that our love grows and our talent is fulfilled and replenished.”

Source : "To the Director and Playwright".
“Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere.”
“Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.”
“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”
“As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.”
“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”
“All we are is dust in the wind, dude.”

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