Roosevelt quotes

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Roosevelt quotes part 2

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.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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

The joy is in the journey, not just the destination.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.

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.

The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it’s open.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

You have to do what you can’t not do.

Courage isn’t the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Success is doing what you love and being able to love what you do.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

With self-discipline, most anything is possible.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.