Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

I feel like a Bull Moose.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

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.

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.