Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all… — 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
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
From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — 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
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
