Theodore Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collation of Theodore Roosevelt quotes and sayings. Theodore “T.R.” Roosevelt, Jr. was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for, among other things, his leadership of the Progressive Movement.

“A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals….”What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man”.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“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 Roosevelt

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“…its toughness and hardy endurance fitted it to contend with purely natural forces…to resist cold and wintry blasts or the heat of the thirsty summer, to wander away to new pastures, to plunge over the broken ground, and to plow its way through snow drifts or quagmires.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“…lands, where the ground is roughest, and where there is some cover, even though scattered and scanty, are the best places to find the black-tail [mule deer].”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“…wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus…The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“All life in the wilderness is so pleasant that the temptation is to consider each particular variety, while one is enjoying it, as better than any other. A canoe trip through the great forests, a trip with a pack-train among the mountains, a trip on snow-shoes through the silent, mysterious fairy-land of the woods in winter–each has its peculiar charm.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“All the resources we need are in the mind”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years. ”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach — why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Around the prairie-dog towns it is always well to keep a look-out for the smaller carnivore, especially coyotes and badgers…and for the larger kinds of hawks. Rattlesnakes are quite plenty, living in the deserted holes, and the latter are also the homes of the little burrowing owls.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“At nightfall the poor-wills begin to utter their boding call from the wooded ravines back in the hills; not the whip-poor-will,” as in the East, but with two syllables only.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t foul, don’t flinch. Hit the line hard.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t hit at all if you can help it; don’t hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. ”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I 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

“I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of — a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of — the history of the world of the past.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision…I enjoyed the life to the full.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“I don’t think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don’t think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more…. “Success – the real success – does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position”.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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