...a healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.
The man must be glad to do a man’s work, to dare and endure and to labor; to keep himself, and to keep those dependent upon him.
All quoted from his "Strenous Life" speech, April 10, 1899.
The Strenuous Life: What We Need In America
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