70 Best Famous Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

• Top Quotes of Theodore Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt Happiness Quotes
• Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Life and Dream
• Quotes on Success by Theodore Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt Freedom Quotes
• Quotes on Children and Education by Theodore Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Military
• Hardwork Quotes of Theodore Roosevelt
• Inspirational Quotes of Theodore Roosevelt

Top Quotes of Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

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Theodore Roosevelt Happiness Quotes

From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life’s burdens.

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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Life and Dream

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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It’s not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

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Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

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

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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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.

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I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

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

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The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

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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.

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Quotes on Success by Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

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No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.

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The chief factor in any man’s success or failure must be his own character.

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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

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Theodore Roosevelt Freedom Quotes

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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Quotes on Children and Education by Theodore Roosevelt

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

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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

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If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

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It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children’s children will get the benefit of it.

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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.

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

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

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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Military

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

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Don’t spread patriotism too thin.

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We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

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We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

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Hardwork Quotes of Theodore Roosevelt

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

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Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

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

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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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Nothing worth having comes easy.

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Inspirational Quotes of Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.

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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

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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.

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With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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Famous Quotes of Theodore Roosevelt

Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

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It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

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The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

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Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

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It is not the critic who counts…The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

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So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.

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

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I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope – the door of opportunity – is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

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The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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