Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

26th President of the United States of America
1858-1919

• 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.
• When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
• I am a part of everything that I have read.
• I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
• I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
• If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
• It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
• Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
• Believe you can and you're halfway there.
• 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.
• 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.
• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
• 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.
• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
• 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.
• 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!

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