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1 " Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "
― Theodore Roosevelt
2 " Believe you can and you're halfway there. "
3 " Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. "
4 " In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. "
5 " The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. "
6 " 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. "
― Theodore Roosevelt , Strenuous Life
7 " No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care "
8 " Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. "
9 " Comparison is the thief of joy. "
10 " 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 "
11 " We 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 , The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings
12 " When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. "
13 " Believe you can, and you're halfway there. "
14 " Believe that you can and you are halfway there "
15 " To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "
16 " 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. "
17 " Nothing 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 , American Ideals: And Other Essays, Social and Political
18 " There 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 , Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
19 " Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. "
20 " I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. "
