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Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919] American

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President, 26th U.S. President

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Believe you can and you're halfway there.	Inspirational	17
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.	Motivational	102
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.	Funny	103
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.	Best	104
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.	Brainy	105
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.	Best, Chance, Life, Work	106
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.	Education, Society	107
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.	Leadership	108
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.	Failure	109
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.	Car, Education	110
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.		111
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.		112
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.		113
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.	Great	114
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.	Courage, Moving On	115
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.	Courage	116
With self-discipline most anything is possible.	Inspirational	117
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.	Education, Knowledge, Religion	118
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.		119
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.	Time, Wisdom	120
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.		121
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.		122
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.	Failure, Life, Love	123
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.	History, Life	124
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.		125
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.	Success	126
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.	Leadership	201
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.	Good	202
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.	Dreams, Time	203
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.	Learning	204
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.	Men, Work	205
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.	Great	206
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.	Motivational	207
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.	Freedom	208
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.		209
I am a part of everything that I have read.	Education	210
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.		211
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.		212
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.	Great	213
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.	Work	214
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.		215
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.		216
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.	Best, Good	217
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.	Women	218
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.	Freedom	219
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.	Good	220
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.	Great	221
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.	Government	222
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.		223
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!		224
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.		225
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.		226
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.	Great, Peace, Time, War	301
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.	Government	302
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.	Politics	303
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.	Peace, Science, War	304
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.	Death	305
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.	Politics	306
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.		307
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.	Attitude	308
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.		309
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.		310
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.		311
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.	History	312
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.	Success	313
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.		314
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.	Peace	315
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.		316
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.		317
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'		318
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.		319
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.		320
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.		321
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.	Age	322
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.		323
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.		324
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.		325
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.		326
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.		401
The American people abhor a vacuum.		402
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.		403
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.		404

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