“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“When you play, play hard when you work, don’t play at all.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“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
“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
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
– Theodore Roosevelt