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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes: 21

  • Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  • The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

  • 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.

  • No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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

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

  • Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  • When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

  • The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

  • People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

  • Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

  • With self-discipline most anything is possible.

  • To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  • Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

  • 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.

    Strenuous Life
  • No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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

  • 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.

  • In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

  • 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. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

  • Comparison is the thief of joy.