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"26 Theodore Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 October 1858. Died: 6 January 1919 | Politician | Statesman | President |
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Halfway Believe Can There
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Freedom Effort Present Store
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing

Far Best Prize Offer
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

People Leader Boss Drive
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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.”

Best Executive Sense Enough
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Seize Moment Action Intend
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Courtesy Mark Gentleman Courage
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Kick Pant Person Responsible
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Great Speak Thought Mind
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Old Age Success Start
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Important Single Ingredient Formula
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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Pity Worth Admire Creature
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Hard Fail Worse Try
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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.

Great Mind Overcome Obstacle
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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.

Destroy America Prosperity Peace
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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.

Moment Decision Best Next
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Man Make Mistake Anything
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Job Men Prove Ability
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Vote Rifle Useful Depend
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Ask Job Certain Busy
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Men Live Loft Ideas
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Human End Create End
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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.

Dare Mighty Win Triumph
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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.

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

Labour Pain Effort Energy
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Care Other Think Much
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings