Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Over 150000 Famous Quotes

browse by authors:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Home > Authors: R > Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Theodore Roosevelt

Birthday: October 27, 1858
Deathday: January 06, 1919
Category: American President
Type: President
National: American

Rate:

link to us:
Link for Email and IM:	Link for website and blogs:

Similar Authors

Ellen Muth
Aaliyah
Stephen Ambrose
John Abizaid
Berenice Abbott
Betsy Ross
Abigail Adams
Carl D. Anderson
Eli Whitney
Aaron Allston
William Hooper
Arthur Alexander
Albert Ellis
Allen Dulles
Henry David Thoreau

A man who has never gone to school may steal...

A man who is good enough to shed his blood...

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than...

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of...

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon...

Absence and death are the same - only that in...

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader...

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing...

Believe you can and you're halfway there....

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their...

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in...

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you...

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to...

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five...

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe....

Far and away the best prize that life has to...

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win...

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if...

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there...

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great...

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to...

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

I am a part of everything that I have read....

I am only an average man but, by George, I...

I care not what others think of what I do,...

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth...

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness...

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and...

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...

If there is not the war, you don't get the...

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible...

In a moment of decision the best thing you can...

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can...

It behooves every man to remember that the work of...

It is difficult to make our material condition better by...

It is essential that there should be organization of labor....

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never...

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim...

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

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at...

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life...

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time....

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort....

No man is above the law and no man is...

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground...

No man is worth his salt who is not ready...

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn...

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how...

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a...

Old age is like everything else. To make a success...

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive....

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss....

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the...

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have...

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without...

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go...

The American people abhor a vacuum....

The best executive is one who has sense enough to...

The boy who is going to make a great man...

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic...

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

The human body has two ends on it: one to...

The man who loves other countries as much as his...

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success...

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

The most successful politician is he who says what the...

The one thing I want to leave my children is...

The only man who never makes a mistake is the...

The only time you really live fully is from thirty...

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country...

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude...

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first...

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at...

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There...

There has never yet been a man in our history...

To announce that there must be no criticism of the...

To educate a man in mind and not in morals...

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided;...

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either...

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators...

When you are asked if you can do a job,...

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

With self-discipline most anything is possible....