Theodore Roosevelt Quotes



       “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt


       “When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “Don't hit at all if it is honourably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt
    
       “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.” 

- Theodore Roosevelt

       “Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

      “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “I am a part of everything that I have read.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt



        “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

         “Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “Comparison is the thief of joy.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

         “In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “The worst of all fears is the fear of living” 
- Theodore Roosevelt,

        “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “All the resources we need are in the mind. ” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

         “For those who fight for it life has a flavour the sheltered will never know” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “No man is above the law, and no man is below it.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

       “Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books” 
- Theodore Roosevelt

        “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.” 
- Theodore Roosevelt