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Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

-Theodore Roosevelt

age

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

attitude

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

best

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

best

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

best

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

-Theodore Roosevelt

best

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

car

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

courage

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

-Theodore Roosevelt

courage

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

-Theodore Roosevelt

death

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

dreams

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

education

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

education

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

failure

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

freedom

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

-Theodore Roosevelt

good

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

good

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

good

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

-Theodore Roosevelt

government

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

-Theodore Roosevelt

government

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

great

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

-Theodore Roosevelt

great

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

-Theodore Roosevelt

great

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

great

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

great

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

-Theodore Roosevelt

great

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

great

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

-Theodore Roosevelt

history

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

-Theodore Roosevelt

history

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

-Theodore Roosevelt

inspirational

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

-Theodore Roosevelt

inspirational

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

knowledge

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

-Theodore Roosevelt

leadership

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

learning

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.

-Theodore Roosevelt

life

Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

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

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.

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

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.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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.

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

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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.

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.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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.

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.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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

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.

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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