Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The timid good man counts but little in the rough business of trying to do well the world's work.

The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well, who counts the deed itself as his reward.

If a man is strong in mind and body and misuses his strength then he becomes simply a foe to the body politic, to be hunted down by all dece...

To you much has been given, and woe and shame to you if we cannot rightfully expect much from you in return.