Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
"The liar is no whit better than the thief"
"The worst of all fears is the fear of living."
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.""
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
"In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."
"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."
"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants."
"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
"The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife."
"Spiritually and ethically we must strive to bring about clean living and right thinking. We appreciate that the things of the body are important; but we appreciate also that the things of the soul are immeasurably more important."
The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs,
even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat."
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