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" For in this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled with the capacity, to do well and worthily a piece of work, the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind. "
The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 - Page 248
by Joseph Gaston - 1912
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 72

1902 - 1492 pages
...closes with one of the strongest sentences Mr. Roosevelt has ever uttered : " For in this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind." Governor Taft's part of this book is a very thorough,...
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Manual Training Magazine, Volumes 4-5

Charles Alpheus Bennett - Manual training - 1903 - 554 pages
...nobility is in the fact that he is a worker." — RABBI HIRSCH. " FOR in this world the one tiling supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind." — THEODORE ROOSEVELT. CONTEMPORARY pedagogy isgrowingly...
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Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs: Who Came from Dorsetchire ...

Henry Benjamin Meigs - Genealogy - 1901 - 420 pages
...he never recovered. He died February loth, 1899, aged eighty -six years. JLM In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind. — Theodore Roosevelt. No. 433 DR. WILLIAM MEIQS....
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The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States

Murat Halstead - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 496 pages
...opportunity of stereotyping them into law. "'In this world,' wrote the President recently, 'the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.' That was said with reference to Mr. Taft's entrance...
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The Philippines: The First Civil Governor

Theodore Roosevelt - Philippines - 1902 - 156 pages
...But he gladly undertook it ; and he is to be considered thrice fortunate! For in this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind. [28] CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES BY WILLIAM...
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The International Dental Journal, Volume 24

Dentistry - 1903 - 1062 pages
...passed the age where personal advancement is preferred to scientific accuracy. In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled with the capacity, to do a piece of work the doing of which shall be of vital importance to mankind. It has been Dr. Kirk's...
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The Higher Education and Progress: Address at the Thirteenth Annual ...

Orrin Leslie Elliott - Education, Higher - 1904 - 40 pages
...which it is willing to pay, it has done well. " In this world," writes Theodore Roosevelt, " the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind." But the promotion of enterprise is not everything....
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Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen

Jacob August Riis - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 540 pages
...undertook it gladly," he said, " and he is to be considered thrice fortunate; for in this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind." There is his measure. Let now the understrappers...
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Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen

Jacob August Riis - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 544 pages
...undertook it gladly," he said, " and he is to be considered thrice fortunate; for in this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity coupled...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind." There is his measure. Let now the understrappers...
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An Observer in the Philippines: Or, Life in Our New Possessions

John Bancroft Devins - Philippines - 1905 - 554 pages
...it; and he is to be considered thrice fortunate. For in this world the one thing supremely worth the having is the opportunity, coupled with the capacity,...well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind." "When you go home," said a former American soldier,...
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