Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

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

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, certainly I can, and get busy and find out how to do it afterwards.”

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

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

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

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

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

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

“It is not the critic who counts; the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“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 not victory nor defeat.”

“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world...”

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

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

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”

“Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.”

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

“I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”