The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. — 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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyI have never in my life envied… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer… — 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
Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.” — 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
You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when? — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it. — 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
