Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

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

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

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

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.