Theodore Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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“I grow very fond of this place, and it certainly has a desolate, grim beauty of its own, that has a curious fascination for me.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“I heartily enjoy this life, with its perfect freedom, for I am very fond of hunting, and there are few sensations I prefer to that of galloping over these rolling limitless prairies, with rifle in hand, or winding my way among the barren, fantastic and grimly picturesque deserts of the so-called Bad Lands…”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I want to see you shoot the way you shout.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“In a great many–indeed, in most–localities there are wild horses to be found, which, although invariably of domestic descent, being either themselves runaways from some ranch or Indian outfit, or else claiming such for their sires and dams, yet are quite as wild as the antelope on whose domain they have intruded.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“In 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

“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“it is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals — not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It is better to be faithful than famous.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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

“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It was here that the romance of my life began.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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