01UndatedWe admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
02UndatedFar better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
03UndatedThe law of worthy life is fundamentally the law of strife. It is only through labor, painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
05UndatedIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
09UndatedThe only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
10UndatedFar 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.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
11UndatedNo one cares how much you know, until they know how much you careTheodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
12UndatedEvery immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
14UndatedThe lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in booksTheodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
15UndatedWe are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
18UndatedPeople don't care how much you know until they know how much you careTheodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
20UndatedTo educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
21UndatedA 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.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
22UndatedNothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an easy life. I know that your life is hard; I know that your work is hard; and hardest of all for those of you who have the highest trained consciences, and who therefore feel always how much you ought to do. I know your work is hard, and that is why I congratulate you with all my heart. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
23UndatedThere is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing. Now and then there is a powerful but sad story which really is interesting and which really does good; but normally the books which do good and the books which healthy people find interesting are those which are not in the least of the sugar-candy variety, but which, while portraying foulness and suffering when they must be portrayed, yet have a joyous as well as a noble side.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
24UndatedEach time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
