Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

Happiness

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Success

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Success

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

Hope

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Success

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Education

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom