Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

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

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal 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.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Nothing worth having comes easy.