3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
