1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.