There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard. — 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
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance,… — 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
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — 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
“The very pathetic myth of "beneficent nature" could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America… — 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
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.” — 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
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him -… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both… — 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
