Teddy Roosevelt Quotes
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit
on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they
need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level
with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
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.
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the
positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of
power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good
enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but
never hit soft.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years
to learn English or leave the country.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow
small ones.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and
that is softness of head.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions
speak to all mankind.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius 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.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any
man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are
thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got
to start young.
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.
