Great person Quote by Ryan Holiday

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of…

— Orison Swett Marden

“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent…

— Timothy Egan

“One of Roosevelt's most entrenched beliefs, as a cowboy, a hunter, a soldier, and an explorer, was that the health of one man should…

— Candice Millard

“What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT”

— Ryan Holiday

“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true…

— Scott Anderson

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew…

— Emanuel Celler

“Then I remembered something I’d read that Teddy Roosevelt had said: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out…

— Charlie A. Beckwith

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

— Emanuel Celler

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.  Theodore Roosevelt.”

— Doug Dandridge

“You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is—at best—indifferent…

— Ryan Holiday

To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years old, feeling…

— Geoffrey Cowan

“The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed “to try the President’s strength or impair his good temper.” At one…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin