Theodore Roosevelt

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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.

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.

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

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

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

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.