Selected quotes · 28
№ 01
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Theodore RooseveltAction
№ 02
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
Theodore RooseveltMindset
№ 03
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore RooseveltMindset
№ 04
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
Theodore RooseveltCourage
№ 05
“If 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 RooseveltLife
№ 06
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
Theodore RooseveltAction
№ 07
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
Theodore RooseveltLife
№ 08
“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”
Theodore RooseveltAction
№ 09
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
Theodore RooseveltWisdom
№ 10
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
Theodore RooseveltFailure
№ 11
“Far 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 RooseveltCourage
№ 12
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Theodore RooseveltSuccess
№ 13
“The 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 RooseveltFreedom
№ 14
“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore RooseveltFailure
№ 15
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
Theodore RooseveltFreedom
№ 16
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
Theodore RooseveltWisdom
№ 17
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore RooseveltSelf-belief
№ 18
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore RooseveltAction
№ 19
“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”
Theodore RooseveltWisdom
№ 20
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
Theodore RooseveltFreedom
№ 21
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore RooseveltWisdom
№ 22
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
Theodore RooseveltTime
№ 23
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Theodore RooseveltJustice
№ 24
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
Theodore RooseveltLife
№ 25
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
Theodore RooseveltCreativity
№ 26
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
Theodore RooseveltLeadership
№ 27
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
Theodore RooseveltAction
№ 28
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Theodore RooseveltLife