Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Don't spread patriotism too thin.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

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

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

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.

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

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.

Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.