1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause.

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

Risk is like fire: If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you.

There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief , the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder.

The steady aim of this nation, as of all enlightened nations, should be to strive to bring ever nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed

There should be severe child labor and factory inspection laws.

Stand against him in no spirit of vengeance, but only with the resolute purpose to make him act as decent citizens must act if this Republic is to be, and to be kept, what it shall become.

The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.