Theodore Roosevelt Quotes:- Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States.
His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore, alongside those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. In polls of historians and political scientists, Roosevelt is generally ranked as one of the five best presidents.
Theodore Roosevelt’s Early Life
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, into a wealthy family in New York City. Known as Upon graduating from Harvard College in 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee and entered Columbia University Law School, though he dropped out after only one year to enter public service.
He was elected to the New York State Assembly at the age of 23 and served two terms (1882-84). Both his wife and mother died on the same day in 1884, and the grieving Roosevelt spent the next two years on a ranch he owned in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory, where he hunted big game, drove cattle, and worked as a frontier sheriff. Upon returning to New York, he married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow.
Inspirational Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Suffering
“Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”–Theodore Roosevelt
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Avoiding
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Freedom
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Character
“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”-Theodore Roosevelt
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Enough
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Work
“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Man
“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Success
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The American people abhor a vacuum.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Government
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Voice
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On History
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Present
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.'”-Theodore Roosevelt
“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”-Theodore Roosevelt
