Collection of Theodore Roosevelt Quotes:
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
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.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
~Theodore Roosevelt sayings on Work and Play
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
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.
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
~Theodore Roosevelt on Death
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men 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.
I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.
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