Theodore Roosevelt – Inspiring Famous Quotes

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

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants to be done and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

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

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

Theodore Roosevelt – Inspiring Famous Quotes part 2

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you greater than any obstacle.

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

Freedom means responsibility; that’s why most men dread it.

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.

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

Believe in the beauty of your dreams.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

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

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The joy of life is found in one’s contributions.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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.

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

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.