Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the… — 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
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of effort, labor… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There are many good people who are denied the supreme blessing of children, and for these we have the respect and sympathy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. — 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
