1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

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

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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.

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them – not what they do to him – that is the true test of his mettle.

I’m as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it’s easier than going out to the woodpile.