Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

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

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

It is not the critic who counts

It is better to be faithful than famous.

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

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

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

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