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Theodore Roosevelt
1858 – 1919 · 26th President of the United States
Born asthmatic and frail, Roosevelt rebuilt himself through sheer force of will, boxing, ranching, leading the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill. When an assassin shot him in the chest during a campaign speech, he finished the speech.
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APX-IV-0029“I've been hiding my ambition because I don't want to seem like too much.”DTH-XI-0018“I just lost a friendship that mattered deeply to me.”APX-IV-0030“They keep telling me to tone it down so others feel comfortable.”APX-IV-0031“I've made myself smaller for so long I don't know my own size.”APX-IV-0032“I finally won big and now I feel guilty for being proud of it.”DTH-XII-0025“I finally hit the goal and it feels strangely hollow.”APX-IV-0033“After years of grinding in the dark, the thing finally broke open.”APX-IV-0034“I got the role the people who wrote me off were sure I'd never get.”APX-V-0021“Someone I poured into just surpassed me and I'm proud, not threatened.”APX-VI-0043“I turned down the easy comfortable life to chase the hard worthy one.”VIR-II-0028“I said no to something I couldn't honor, and my yes means more now.”APX-IV-0058“My business finally turned a real profit and I want to stand tall in it.”
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