Quotes: Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." 

–– Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American politician, conservationist, naturalist, writer, and American President (1901-9). 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.

Quotes 269: Robert F. Kennedy

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." 

–– Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), American lawyer and politician 

via Sketchbook 4, 2007, p. 95