Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

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

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.