Theodore Roosevelt quotes

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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.

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.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

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.

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 and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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.

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.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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 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 best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.