Theodore Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“They have a funny habit of gravely bowing or posturing at the passer-by, and stand up very erect on their legs. — Theodore Roosevelt on burrowing owls”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. 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

“To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who ‘hits the line hard’.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“TR, after camping in Yosemite National Park: “It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man.”"
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere…When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ”present” or ”not guilty”.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ”Certainly I can!” — and get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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