1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.