Teddy Roosevelt Quotes

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

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.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

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

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Fear God and take your own part.

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done.

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

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt Quotes part 2

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

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.

Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, but by acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.

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

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.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point or another, that devil masters each of us… It is not the fact of inhibition that counts, but the degree of inhibition.

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

No people is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

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

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

The only limitations one has are the ones they place on themselves.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. You have to do the best you can with what you have.

The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.

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

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

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