There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait. — 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
