A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. — 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
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — 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
