Famous Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Below are famous quotes by Theodore Roosevelt - 26th president of US (1858 - 1919).
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.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Do what you can with what you have, where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat".
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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 country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty."
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
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