Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

"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."

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

"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."