1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Speak softly, I’m getting my massage.

To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Don’t spread patriotism too thin.

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us.

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.