1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.