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
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — 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
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum… — 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
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
