1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

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.

Bullies do not make brave men; and boys of men of foul life cannot become good citizens, good Americans, until they change; and even after the change, scars will be left in their souls.

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

You must never forget for a moment that so far from the doctrine of efficiency being a base doctrine, it is a doctrine vital to good in this country.

The best leader 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.