More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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.
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
