Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any mans permission when we ask him to obey it.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

My hats in the ring. The fight is one and Im stripped to the buff.

Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

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!

I feel like a Bull Moose.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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.

If there is not the war, you dont get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you dont get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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.

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.