Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing, Country, Else

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Thoughts

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Job, Busy, Find

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 Roosevelt

Dreams, Time, Live

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

Possible, Hit, Avoid

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, End, Hard

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership, Leader, Between

The 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

Good, Best, Done

The 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

Women, Wife, Level

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Greatest, Envy, Deep

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mind, Together, Leader

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Moving On, Courage, Through

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt

Human, Two, Sometimes

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

Labor, Essential, Era

The 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

Good, Able, Shall

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Win

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Great, Worth

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Gentleman, Courtesy

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Death, Same, Suffering

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, History, Worth

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore Roosevelt

It 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

Work, End, Remember

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Character, Long

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Time, Wise

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 27, 1858

Died: January 6, 1919

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