Image card: If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.
Success

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

Theodore Roosevelt

The 26th US president, known for his energy and for protecting America’s wild lands.

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More on success

  • Trade one hour of scrolling for one hour of skill, every day, for a year. Watch what happens.
  • Aim to be useful before you aim to be famous. Useful people never run out of doors.
  • Be so reliable that your name becomes the answer to 'who can we trust with this?'
  • The ones who get ahead are the ones who followed up when everyone else forgot.
  • You will not outwork a bad direction. Pick your target, then pour your effort into it.
  • Success is mostly showing up with a sharpened pencil while others are still looking for paper.