52 quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The government is us we are the government, you and I.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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

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“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

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Speak softly and carry a big stick” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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