Words matter. These are the best Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
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!
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
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.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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.
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.
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.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
The American people abhor a vacuum.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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.
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.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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.
