Famous Quotes

Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

• 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 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 first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
• The government is us we are the government, you and I.
• The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
• The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
• 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.
• The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
• 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.
• There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
• Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
• When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
• With self-discipline most anything is possible.