Great Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

THEODORE ROOSEVELT (President of the United States, 1858 – 1919)
Theodore Roosevelt often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”

“I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“With self-discipline, almost anything is possible.”

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

“There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.”

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.”