Quote: A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: 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. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: With self-discipline most anything is possible. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: 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. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: The government is us; we are the government, you and I. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: No man is above the law, and no man is below it. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: 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. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. [Theodore Roosevelt]
Quote: There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers. [Theodore Roosevelt]