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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Politics Presidential

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Courage Inspirational Self Confidence

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Country Diversity Equality Humor Inspirational Politics

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Decisiveness Inaction Just Do It Timidity Wisdom

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take 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.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Decisiveness Fear Inaction Just Do It Risk Timidity Wisdom

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Empathy Wisdom

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Advice Americanism English As A Second Language Immigration Politics Usa Wisdom Xenophobia

Comparison is the thief of joy.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Comparing Envy Happiness Unhappiness

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Happiness Material Foundation Service Wealth

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Clever Desperation Hope Inspiration Misattributed Tenacity

Believe you can, and you're halfway there.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Hope Inspirational Love

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Bravery Decisiveness Failure Inaction Success Timidity

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Character Education Morality

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Big Business Business Regulation Corruption Education

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an easy life. I know that your life is hard; I know that your work is hard; and hardest of all for those of you who have the highest trained consciences, and who therefore feel always how much you ought to do. I know your work is hard, and that is why I congratulate you with all my heart. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Courage Life Motivational Resilience

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing. Now and then there is a powerful but sad story which really is interesting and which really does good; but normally the books which do good and the books which healthy people find interesting are those which are not in the least of the sugar-candy variety, but which, while portraying foulness and suffering when they must be portrayed, yet have a joyous as well as a noble side.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Books Fiction Novels

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Confidence Courage Doing Fear Strength

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Americanism Equality Freedom Independence Individuality Liberty Patriotic Patriotism Respect Self Respect

The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them, they behaved very well. One night a few of them went on a spree, and proceeded to paint San Antonio red. One was captured by the city authorities, and we had to leave him behind us in jail. The others we dealt with ourselves, in a way that prevented a repetition of the occurrence.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Humour Military Painting Soldiers

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Environment Morals Nationalism Patriotism Politics Values

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Government Government Corruption Politics Senate

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Ethics Politics

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Business Politics

Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Business Politics Progressive Teddy Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt

If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be a new party of nationwide and non-sectional principles, a party where the titular national chiefs and the real state leaders shall be in genuine accord, a party in whose counsels the people shall be supreme, a party that shall represent in the nation and the several states alike the same cause, the cause of human rights and of governmental efficiency. At present both the old parties are controlled by professional politicians in the interests of the privileged classes, and apparently each has set up as its ideal of business and political development a government by financial despotism tempered by make-believe political assassination. Democrat and Republican alike, they represent government of the needy many by professional politicians in the interests of the rich few. This is class government, and class government of a peculiarly unwholesome kind.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was a very beautiful and almost terrible sight; for the sun rose behind the storm, and shone through the gusty rifts, lighting the mountain-crests here and there, while the plain below lay shrouded in the lingering night. The angry, level rays edged the dark clouds with crimson, and turned the downpour into sheets of golden rain; in the valleys the glimmering mists were tinted every wild hue; and the remotest heavens were lit with flaming glory.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Beauty Nature Storm Thunderstorm

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.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Leadership Management

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.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Achievement Labor Prize Work

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Play Work

To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the highest idea of the family is attainable only where the father and mother stand to each other as lovers and friends. In these homes the children are bound to father and mother by ties of love, respect, and obedience, which are simply strengthened by the fact that they are treated as reasonable beings with rights of their own, and that the rule of the household is changed to suit the changing years, as childhood passes into manhood and womanhood.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Children Family Happiness Marriage

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Money Wealth

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Courage Perseverance Tenacity

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Courage Fear

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Joy Perspective Sorrow

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Affirmative Confirmation Gladness Joy

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Books Children

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Evil Justice Means Justifying The Ends Society

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Joy Living

A people without children would face a hopeless future, a country without trees is almost as helpless.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Country Future Hopeless Trees

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Facts Feelings Men Military Relations Simple Souls
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