I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
