“The highest form of success comes 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.” MenDoeFormWinningDangerHe ManHighestUltimateBitterTriumphHardshipToilShrinksSplendidIgnoble Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.” MenFirstsImportantEndsChildhoodHe ManAchievementSexualityBitterTragicFascinatedOscarsDisgraceDownfallWildeVindicated Author:Stephen Fry
“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; 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. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.” MenLittlesDoeFormDesireWinningIndividualNationsWishEasyEffortDangerHe ManHighestSpringUltimateMereStriveWorthyDoctrineGreat ThingsBitterTriumphEaseLabourHardshipToilStrifeShrinksSplendidIgnoble Book:The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt Source: The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt