Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt ( October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as TR, was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
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.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious 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.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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.
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
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.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious 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.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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.
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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