Theodore Roosevelt’s quotes serve as a call for action, courage, and integrity. They capture the spirit of perseverance while reminding us that the true measure of a person lies in what they do rather than just what they say. His insights invite us to face life’s challenges head-on while working toward our goals with both determination and resilience – his legacy lives on beyond history books- it lives on through inspiring words which continue to motivate any willing individual to dare greatly.
- “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
- “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
- “Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
- “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
- “If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
- “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.”
- “Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”
- “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
- “The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
- “We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.”
- “In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.”
- “The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”
- “If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.”
- “It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
- “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
- “Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
- “There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”
- “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
- “Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic.”
- “We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them.”
- “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
- “To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.”
- “Some of these men are brave only because of their confidence in their own skill and strength; once convince them that they are overmatched and they turn into abject cowards.”
- “From its very nature, the life of the hunter is in most places evanescent; and when it has vanished there can be no real substitute in old settled countries.”
- “No one, but he who has partaken thereof, can understand the keen delight of hunting in lonely lands.”
- “Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short stories under the head of novels.”
- “Trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.”
- “The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.”
- “Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.”
- “Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.”
- “I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.”
- “Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws.”
- “If I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.”
- “Each man should have all he earns… but no man should live on the earnings of another, and there should not be too gross inequality between service and reward.”
- “We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst; and we saw men die violent deaths as they worked among the horses and cattle, or fought in evil feuds with one another; but we felt the beat of hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living.”
- “But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place.”
- “Books are all very well in their way… but children are better than books.”
- “We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.”
- “A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.”
- “We knew not whither we were bound, nor what we were to do; but we believed that the nearing future held for us many chances of death and hardship, of honor and renown.”
- “Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.”
- “The only danger lies in the extreme monotony of sitting still in the dark guarding men who make no motion, and the consequent tendency to go to sleep, especially when one has had a hard day’s work and is feeling really tired.”
- “A man cannot practice too much with this if he wishes to attain even moderate proficiency; and as a matter of fact he soon gets to wish to practice the whole time.”
- “Nothing worth gaining is ever gained without effort.”
- “A race must be strong and vigorous; it must be a race of good fighters and good breeders, else its wisdom will come to naught and its virtue be ineffective.”
- “No sweetness and delicacy, no love for and appreciation of beauty in art or literature, no capacity for building up material prosperity can possibly atone for the lack of the great virile virtues.”
- “The forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.”
- “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
- “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
- “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
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