Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you are halfway there

nearly forty hours in the saddle, changing horses five times

believe you can and you're already halfway there

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character.

Laissez-faire, says the professor, when it often means bind and gag that the strongest may work his will. It is a plea for the survival of the fittest—for the strongest male to take possession of the herd by a process of extermination.

A man's first duty is to his own home, but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the State; for if he fails in this second duty it is under the penalty of ceasing to be a freeman.

we must abandon definitely the laissez-faire theory of political economy, and fearlessly champion a system of increased Governmental control, paying no heed to the cries of the worthy people who denounce this as Socialistic.

Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

The Forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

We have come to a political deification of Mammon.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

speak softly and carry a big stick

i am part of everything that i have read

We cannot sit huddled within our own borders and avow ourselves merely an assemblage of well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond.

I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.