01c. 1888 ADI 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1888 ADThe most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
05c. 1888 ADOne of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
06c. 1888 ADI am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
07c. 1888 ADThe reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
09c. 1888 ADThe only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
10c. 1888 ADIf there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
11c. 1888 ADGermany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
12c. 1888 ADFar 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 a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
13c. 1888 ADThe things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
14c. 1888 ADNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
15c. 1888 ADFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
16c. 1888 ADIt behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
17c. 1888 ADIt is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
18c. 1888 ADAbsence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
19c. 1888 ADOld age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
20c. 1888 ADA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
21c. 1888 ADThe man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
22c. 1888 ADIn 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.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
23c. 1888 ADThe best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
24c. 1888 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
