1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railway man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The wildlife of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a great deal afterward.

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

To do the best you can each moment is to manifest genius in living.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worth hearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

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

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune—make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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